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Introducing Squirrelfish Extreme:

A few more changes going on around redmonk.net lately:

This post is a reminder/bookmark for myself and anyone else on how to customize a StyleCatcher theme in Movable Type without losing the ability to use the original theme in the future.

A reminder for social software nerds in the Bay area: Six Apart is hosting a Portable Contacts hackathon today, and tomorrow is the Portable Contacts Summit at the MySpace offices. I want to talk more about Portable Contacts and what this means, but that's for another post.

One of the things I'm interested to ask the [working from !work] portion of the greater inter-verse about is: where do you work?

This time, it's moving this blog to Movable Type, the afore-mentioned kick-ass blogging system.

I can finally (with sincere apologies to Zeldman and crew) talk about new developments in my personal and professional life, and I'm stoked to do so!

After a fun trip skydiving with my father and two brothers this past week, I wrote up a guest post on Dustin's new blog on 4 Tips For A Successful Man-venture.

It's been a while since I've posted about what's going on in the DiSo community, and I had started to prepare a list of recent developments to share, but on the way I felt that there was a theme I wanted to address first.

Ok, these may be really really stupid or really really practical ideas -- so no comments starting with "Steve you're an idiot!" -- but I was thinking today about ways to generate power around the house.

Over on the DiSo Project blog, I've posted about some movement in the XRDS-Simple space over the last week. Next steps: We need to identify generators, parsers, and service definitions, and start working on interop.

DiSo is built on the idea of implementing social networking concepts on existing standards where possible. One of those standards is XRDS Simple, a service description and discovery format that is a part of several recent and upcoming standards including OpenID and OAuth. This weekend I decided to build a generalized service for Movable Type that implements XRDS.

I have no idea how to categorize this post from longnow.org about Richard Feynman, a fascinting and personal look at one of the giants of modern physics. Find yourself 20 minutes of pressure-free time and read it, then read it again.

Phusion, via Akita on rails:

These are the slides from a presentation I gave to about 80 developers at work at a recent day-long training event.