Monkinetic Weblog

This morning a coworker was commenting on how cool it was that Dojo includes functionality that will compress their JavaScript library by converting all human-readable javascript to short identifiers made up of underscores and numbers or letters ("_a","_1", etc). Compression births obfuscation.

You know, I've worked in all kinds of environments doing web development, and Flash is making me crazy. I've been bangning my head on this thing for a day now, and it's just leaving me hot under the collar. Grr.

Simplicity is profitable: right on. Southwest Airlines rocks.

Neologism: wimplicity - what results when you're afraid to add any more features.

After Merlin posted about this cool little get-simple wallet, I had to have one. My old leather hip-brick is beginning to cause chiropractic problems, and I'm all about getting simple these days.

After A's IEP meeting today, we had the opportunity to use one of my personal favorite terms, high-up mucky-muck. Jodi always gives me a weird look when I use it, so I decided to finally look the durn thing up. After a few false starts, I found the origin on answers.com - It's actually "High Muck-a-muck":

Though I'm generally a geek, I work in publishing, so I've started paying more attention to some academic and writing-related blog posts that have come cross my radar.

After a longish hiatus - due to a delusion that I wanted to change domains - I thought I'd drop back into the swing of things.