This weekend Bill and I went mountain biking over to the Cave Creek Dam (1922, present day). It was an awesome ride with diverse terrain, including cross country, hard packed trails, gorges, and the large wash in front of the dam.

Mmmmm, coffee. Wireless coffee. Jodi and I are hanging at the Coffee Rush, a local coffee shop with free wireless internet access. Yummy!

Yeah, yeah, the real unix admins make backups of any file they're going to delete. And if they're just testing, they don't actually delete the file, they just move it or rename it. I, on the other hand, am still waking up and got a tad enthusiastic.

I've been trying to diversify my NetNewsWire habits. Recently added:

• Joshua Allen, MSFT: Better Living Through Software
• Andy and Dave, the Pragmatic Programmers

"In other words," said Wil Shipley, President of The Omni Group, "it'sone of those releases that's got plenty of cool stuff, absolutely none of which makes for good press release copy. But you should stilldownload it, because it makes things better in a multitude of small ways." OmniOutliner 2.2.1 is out.

"In other words," said Wil Shipley, President of The Omni Group, "it's one of those releases that's got plenty of cool stuff, absolutely none of which makes for good press release copy. But you should still download it, because it makes things better in a multitude of smallways." OmniOutliner 2.2.1 is out.

rdiv_start" border="0"> Richard Das created a sweet Flash demo of what Apple's patented "Piles" concept could look like. Check it out, it's rumored to be a part of Panther, the codename for the next version of Mac OS X.

Oh, crap. He finally got me to check this out. Before, I only had to whine when this wasn't updated. Now I can jones for Sluggy Freelance, too.

"In other words," said Wil Shipley, President of The Omni Group, "it'sone of those releases that's got plenty of cool stuff, absolutely none of which makes for good press release copy. But you should stilldownload it, because it makes things better in a multitude of small ways." OmniOutliner 2.2.1 is out.

I know it's old hat by now for many, but I really like the new Macromedia.com website. It uses Flash in a good way, IMO. It's intereesting, integrated, but I don't feel like I'm forced to use it to get around the site. Tasteful.

Nice. The Command Post got itself a spiffy new design.

I'm spending the day writing a proposal for a potential client, for some corporate identity/print/web work. It will be a good project if I can make the proposal attractive enough (financially, and without screwing myself). I absolutely hate writing proposals. I suck at it, it's hard work, but it's absolutely necessary.

Well, most everyone knows by now, Scoble's headed to Redmond to become an Evangelist for the next version of Windows. I have mixed feelings about this - I've gotten a chance to chat with Robert a lot recently, and I have a feeling that's going to change (because he's going to be even busier and because he's now under the Mother-Of-All-Non-Disclosure-Agreements). So I'm a bit sad about that.

April 14, 2003, Gilbert, AZ: Apple released the second beta today of its new Safari web browser, bringing on new features and a "proper" implementation of tabs.

Last night I hosted an all-guys Pampered Chef party in my home. Pampered Chef makes the very coolest kitchen utensils, gadgets, pots, pans, etc... A good friend of ours just became a consultant, and so we offered to host a party.

While looking for the previous link to the lyrics for Welcome To The Occupation, I found out that Murmurs.com started a peer-to-peer network called "give it away" for trading live and unreleased R.E.M. tracks. Evidently they've run this by the band, since the band also gave them permission to include B-Sides from the various singles as well as fan-club-only releases.

Hm. The first song in my "R.E.M. Revealed" playlist (random songs from my extensive R.E.M. collection) this morning: "Welcome to the Occupation".

Hang your collar up inside
Hang your dollar on me
Listen to the water still
Listen to the causeway
You are mad and educated
Primitive and wild
Welcome to the occupation

hehe. This post is consistently one of my top Google referrers. A reply, posted today, gives a clue why... smile

Bill Bumgarner has, for now, gotten himself switched over to publishing his Radio weblog to PyCS.

Seth writes about Acme Bookbinding, a client who he helped to move to Conversant using a very comprehensive Manila-to-Conversant tool Macrobyte developed.