Monkinetic Weblog

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" :-) ).

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?

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

Ouch. ;-)

He says he'll stop. Will he, or is this another "no one is inviting me to conferences about things I invented. I'm going to take my blog and go home"?

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.

My friend Bill has been sitting on a secret project at his work for a year or so now. I knew he was hyper-excited about it, but the little scamp wouldn't give me a clue about it. Eventually he clued me in that it had to do with blogging, and only recently he gave me some access to the system with some dire grumbling that I keep my big yap shut.

Most awesomest poster ever (original).

I'm working on designing my first ecommerce check-out page, and I'm looking for samples of well-designed pages. Any suggestions?

Somehow I can't get that excited that about the iPod HiFi, when my daughter has the equivalent of an iPod > brain interface:

I just upgraded this site to Wordpress 2.0.1, and my stats page at Dreamhost stopped working. This happened once before, and I had fixed it, so I had to go Googling for the answer again. Here it is for posterity:

I'd say that has some shelf presence!

Today our little precious girl is 5 years old! Pics from the party a little later tonight. :-)

I just got rocked by the Wayback Machine:

I tried to access this site while at the coffee shop today, and the wireless was not connecting. Assuming that it was working, I got the "could not connect to redmonk.net" message from Firefox, and freaked out, thinking my site was down. I tried to hit the web panel at my host, and in an amusing freudian slip, I typed

Heh. Meme-fun from Wolf

~stevenf wrote a post about how he's using VoodooPad to store information on his Treo. Very neat. I've become a VoodooPad junkie as well, and -- while it's not as neat as Steven's trick -- I have a little trick I've whipped up to export a voodoopad document as a singel bookmarks page that I use as my browser's homepage.

Looking back at our fresh starts & modest changes:

Throughout this month, a wonderful quote from Walden has been turning over in my head:

I'm a real R.E.M. junkie. I recently got a bunch of iTMS money, and went a bit of a binge: my two best purchases were R.E.M.'s In Time, and their iTunes Originals collection. I also bought several R.E.M. music videos (Drive, Radio Song, Leaving New York, Near Wild Heaven, Animal, and Find The River). Wooo!