Monkinetic Weblog

Our friend Angie, who attended the first Arizona-New York blogger get-together, has started blogging again, after a long hiatus. w00!

Lou Rosenfeld, one of the early pioneers of the IA discipline, has an interesting post on heuristics for analyzing a website's architecture.

Jodi just a switched to Firefox:

Jodi and I had a long conversation with a woman from the agency that is helping us prepare the dossier that gets sent to Ukraine for consideration. Cheri is a real sweetheart, and has a huge love for these kids. We're having to face some really tough questions regarding what kind of child we're looking to adopt and what sort of medical conditions we're willing to accept as part of that. The flux of emotions can be overwhelming -- something I had expected, but going through it is so different from imagining it.

Wow. Paul Hamm.

To read: Max Design's Web Standards Checklist. Max Design also has a great presentation section on their site with interviews, articles, and tips on using valid markup and stylesheets in your websites.

I want I want I want I need.

Someone asked for a proper diff of my changes to upload.php in |WordPress|, so here it is:

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I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:

Ukrainian plus Russian Phrases for children. :-)

I've been reading Terry Pratchett's Thief Of Time, a light fantasy-sci-fi in the vein of Douglas Adams' H2G2 series or Terry Brooks' Magic Kingdom series, and really enjoying it. If that's your bag, do check out Pratchett's Discworld books. (3.5 out of 5 whatevers).

RandomURL: Tips for Travelling in the South. How not to get your ass kicked in the south. I grew up in Southeastern Virginia, which most Southerners will still begrudgingly accept as Southern, and this list of tips is both accurate and hysterical.

I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:

(This post is copied from this one on the support forums, I want to make sure my |WordPress| code has a home on this site.)

ukrainian-phrases

I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:

Ukrainian plus Russian Phrases for children. :-)

Dave writes about what I've always thought was a good idea but have a serious reason to care about now: we want to be able to subscribe to audio content feeds via something like RSS and get it downloaded directly to our iPods. I'd love to be able to have |NetNewsWire| automatically add any .mp3 enclosures to a special playlist in iTunes.

|Jodi| and I are celebrating 6 years of marriage today! On August 15, 1998, Jodi and I walked down the aisle in Episcopal Church of the Messiah and into that primary place in each others lives. We've had some hard times, but these 6 years have been wonderful.

Some our our good friends and family have asked how they can help out in our adoption adventure. As a service to them I've created a How To Help page and linked to it from the adorable adoption graphic in the right sidebar of this page. Ok, now everyone go look at the cute graphic...

So, Jodi and I got our first couple of packets of paperwork last night, and started filling out forms and such. This is a process that is going to involve wading through magnificent stacks of paperwork, but the reward will be worth it!

Jodi: I get to speak these long coveted words: