Eric S. "Got me a blog and I'm not afraid to use it" Raymond:

Gun-control boosters are virtuous crusaders animated by selfless love of children and small fuzzy things. There will come a day when all guns are banned, hallelujah, violent crime will plummet, and we can stop being embarrassed for being Americans. (link) Heh.

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If this shows up on the weblog, then progress is coming along nicely on Sid2, a native Objective-C version of Sid.

Dave writes:

"Yesterday we released a change to this core routine that allows the user to completely replace writeRssFile in an update-safe way." Maybe we'll begin to see Radio users providing RSS 1.0-compatible feeds now.

AP: Suspect Had Flight Manuals

A suspect in an alleged scheme to obtain fraudulent student visas had flight manuals, a drawing of a plane striking one of the World Trade Center towers and a date book with a lone entry: Sept. 11, according to court documents. Norfolk, Va, is one of the 5 cities in my home town area of Hampton Roads. Wow. Very scary.

After complaining that I could not afford to buy Aaron Hillegass's Cocoa programming book, I got smart today and checked out the Phoenix Public Library website.

If you use Mac OS X, you simply must get Launchbar, from Objective Devlopment. I'll not rant more now, just get over to Objective Development and get it. $19.95, and the best shareware you'll buy. Do it simple, do it right.

How can something so overpoweringly foul come from our two terribly cute and cuddly felines?

It's late, but I wanted to mention that our pics from Monday's trip to South Mountain are up.

WWDC Keynote:

Inkwell. Handwriting recognition technology. Recognized by any application that uses text. Shhhh... If you're very quiet, you can hear it: neeewwwtoonnnnn......

WWDC Keynote:

Jobs: "A week from tomorrow there'll be some news on the server front." May 14th: Apple introducing a dedicated server, rack mount model.

WWDC Keynote:

iChat: AIM-compatible messaging built in to Jaguar. Can create buddy list of anyone on the local network, as well. You can use your Mac.com name and don't need AOL account.

Steve Jobs, WWDC Keynote: > "Mac OS 9 isn't dead for our customers, but it is for [developers]. Today we say goodbye to Mac OS 9 for all future development," said Jobs.

Mark's gone all fruity! Very nice redesign, Mark!

Applle has a new Mac OS X page up on Jaguar, highlighting some of the previously mentioned new features, including iChat, the new Address book, Sherlock 3, new Finder capabilities, and more.

WWDC Keynote: Finder improvements coming in the next version of OS X:

Finder improvements -- integrated search, multithreading support, automatic thumbnail creation, spring loaded folders.

[thx Shifted Librarian] Time article on the next Matrix. Yummy.

My parents, Jodi, and I went north to Sedona yesterday. We hiked up to Cathedral Rock, a breathtakingly beautiful formation with a view for miles and miles. It was about a .7 mile hike, with a rise of about 600 feet.

We finally got our camera and new monitor! No time to blather on about them now, but you can see the monitor (and my lovely wife Jodi!) here (pics of course taken with the new camera):