Monkinetic Weblog

I saw this OmniWeb 4.5 screenshot on Jason Friedman's site, and couldn't help but think of Mac OS 9's Platinum appearance. I wonder if this is an OS X theme, or is it the new Panther UI? Looks like a "Platinized" Aqua...

Early-ish morning to avoid the heat: 6:40am

Last night Jodi and I went out to dinner at Buca Di Beppo, an incredibly popular italian restaurant in the area. Buca is famous for their "family-style" southern italian cuisine (read: "massive portions"), and 99% of their menu is made fresh daily.

So, Bill says I'm "B-list at best" in the blogging pantheon. Well, I'd be very happy to be B-List material, thank-you-very-much.

...and today I'm 32. Funny, I don't feel 32. But I look at my face in the mirror and there are crow's feet forming around my eyes, the Arizona sun has roughed my face some, and of course I'm about 25% grey now.

Scoble says: "I'm glad I'm not in Silicon Valley right now, though. I heard it was 107 in my dad's car in San Jose yesterday. Whew."

One thing I don't talk about much on this weblog (maybe never before) is that Jodi and I have been trying to have children for almost 4 years. We've explored various treatment options, and suspect what they call "male factor". Yes, that means what you think it means. Due to our current financial situation we're not actively exploring treatment right now.

Jonathan Ive, perhaps most famous as the man behind the design of the original iMac, talks to Wired about the design of the new Power Mac G5.

I got a iChat video chat invitation from Sean McMains today, and I was like "I don't have a camera..." When it popped up it was a one-way video chat - I could ">see Sean (PDF) and he got an audio feed on his end. Very very very cool!

I've found that my success using the new iChat AV and audio chat has been sketchy, and I'm thinking it's related to the fact that one or both of use is behind a NAT. Anyone work out what ports iChat AV uses for audio chat?

Well, Dustin and I went to the Apple Store for the Stevenote, and left happy. I'll leave you in Feedster's capable hands for more WWDC news from the blogoshpere.

John, please go back to OS 9 and leave us alone.

Hehe. Bill points (haha!) us to one fan's obsessive documentation of Harrison Ford's liberal use of The Finger. Haha!

I've been working all week on a new OpenACS package that does form-to-mail, hopefully in a pretty secure manner. It's a learning project, and I wanted something pretty useful (so I would not lose interest too quickly) but not so hard that I'd burn out.

Ahahahheheehehh...

Jade Rubick's A Quick Intro to OpenACS Templating is actually an excellent guide to how the .tcl, .adp, and .xql datasources interact in an OpenACS page.

Jim (who's getting behind in his blogging lately, hehe) pointed me to this great article about Ang Lee and how he "got into" the Hulk character during production... Very good article!

Collaboraid's Package Developer's Guide, by Lars Pind.

...about what's in store for the Mac geeks attending WWDC. Rosai Group has some lovely tidbits here. quoteA new open file system design features reduced dependencies on HFS+, and a new Finder departs from its System 7 origins to bring an extensible architecture, smart folders (think Smart Playlists)endquote And... quote...Panther will eventually deliver the ability to remotely log into a 10.3 server as a graphic user interface shell, allowing users to work remotely from a thin client while leaving the heavy processing on an Xserve.endquote and... quoteSimilarly, multiple users will be able to log into the same system as graphic user interface shells at once, enabling quick, and even instantaneous, switching between multiple users on the same machine.endquote

I cannot believe I had not seen this yet: