Monkinetic Weblog

Mike McCracken shares some tips on how he uses VoodooPad to manage his life. I love VoodooPad, and have a huge document that I use to track a multitude of projects, applications, resources, and notes; it's especially useful for work.

I couldn't resist - the headline used in the local paper was too good. The aircraft carrier Oriskany, veteran of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts and base of operations for Senator John McCain while he was a Navy pilot, is being sunk off the coast of Florida to create the largest man-made reef to date. I'll bet that's going to be a wild sight.

Scotch egg:

I'd say someone had waaaaayyyyy to much time on their hands, but really I just have fantasies of being the guy who built this aircraft carrier out of LEGO. (Via Bill).

Huh. I got an invite to Google's new Pages application. It's not bad, as these things go. But there's not a lot to tempt your basic power user.

Mac OS X Mobile:

9 tips for running more productive meetings:

Iterating features and getting them right:

Ta-da Lists widget:

Adelina had spring break this last week, and she and Jodi had a lot of fun going to different local attractions. The most notable were The Wildlife World Zoo, and the Arizona Science Center.

Jodi's new iMac came with Apple's Photo Booth software, a mostly useless but addictive little app that takes a picture of the user with the built-in iSight camera.

I've talked a good bit about TiVo on this site, and on my early forays into listening to podcasts on my TiVo by way of the TiVo Desktop software (most recent tivo+podcasting post here ).

Small Multiples: Tag cloud usability guidelines.

Star Wars character or Web 2.0 company?. I scored a 37.

I've been futzing with tags lately on this site. I've wanted to add tagging to my posts for some time (managing categories was too hard), and got around to installing the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for Wordpress. It's impressive in it's scope of features and complete ease of use. I've spent some time tagging the last year's worth of content (not as much as you might think) and it's a quick and easy process.

(Via Bill, and Chris Tingom) The new Manpower logo is awesome.

Bill turned me onto a couple new (to me) blogs by a local guy named Chris Tingom. One is brainfuel.tv, which tends to have a lot of good web design critique and analysis. The other is Arizona Coffee, a topic near and dear to my heart. (I like to spend time around the corner at Stonegrounds, using their free WiFi to work from "home" :-) ).

Ouch. ;-)

This BBC article (Cyber bullies haunt young online) talks about kids in England getting threatening IMs and emails from the "Real Life" bullies at their schools. Maybe I'm off my rocker here, but it makes me wonder what would happen if, whenever this happened, the victim posted the content of the message and the identity of the bully on his/her blog?

Camino is a web borwser for the Mac that wraps a native OS X interface around the popular Gecko rendering engine. It's fast, and renders 99.8% of sites exactly like Firefox. After 1.0 came out, Idecide to try it out as my main web browser.