Monkinetic Weblog

After coming up with a solution to how to implement the blog:via machine tag on this site, I turned my attention this morning to how to do something interesting with it.

I took a few minutes today to freshen up this site's color scheme to match the vibrant one at echoloquation.com, my lifestream/tumblog.

There's a good discussion (in the comments) on CreativeBits about recovering from getting your first logo idea rejected, with some good thoughts on determining the actual target of an identity.

Jeremy Keith and I had a geeky chat this morning about machine tags, rel=tag, and the like.

Realized tonight while watching that Equilibrium is Dead Poets Society with gun-fu.

Jodi and I are big John Cusack fans - I can think of only one movie of his we've seen that we didn't like (1993's superbly casted but poorly written Identity).

Apple is going to need to up their security staff, esp. with a"real OS" on the iPhone. Exhibit A: an iPhone browser vulnerability:

Last week I ran into an IE6/7 CSS bug, but in 5 hours of research did not find a solution I liked. In a nutshell, IE incorrectly implements, or incorrectly interprets, the CSS 2.1 float spec:

For the love of all that is holy, this is AWESOME:

>Thus is the pattern for the night established. A couple of new songs, a couple of oldies and shiny happy old me putting in a prize winning performance in the dancing while sitting down world championships. ... Everything else we don't know, though, is pretty much flawless, a raucous, breathtaking hybrid of the best bits from Reckoning and Monster.

Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain:

So, after hemming and hawing for (checks Wikipedia) oh, 9 years, I finally signed up for NetFlix account tonight.

I found myself today re-titling, converting to markdown, and tagging about 150 blog posts that came over from this site's days on Editthispage.com, when each day was a post and every day was titled "Redmonk.News". While doing so I got to thinking about how I attribute links to various sources. Mostly I used the common idiom, the word "via" and the name of the blogger/source, with a link to the site or post where I found the link/idea.

Gooooooooooaaaallll!!!

Sweet!

In the grandest spirit of traffic-generating posts (via Dustin @ Bajooter), Creative Bits tells us about 7 Cool New Features of Google Analytics.

So yesterday was our Dish Network installation. It was scheduled for between 8 and 12, so I got permission to work remotely yesterday so I could be around. Well, around 11:00 I got a call from the installation dispatcher saying that my installer was running late, and that he would be at the house around 2:00 PM. Annoyed but used to this kind of thing in general, I waited.

Updated from my last list, now that the "work of nearly indescribable beauty" has been released:

My lifestream site, , is now powered by tumblr, instead of my home-brewed Rails app. I never got the Rails app updating like I wanted, and then over the weekend it stopped responding at all. Since I started playing with lifestreams, so many good apps (tumblr, Jaiku) have come out that fighting with my own is not currently worth my time.