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Shailesh snapped a picture of me this weekend in full cheese zombie mode. I don't know, I see a big pot of queso and I lose the capacity for rational thought.

Dave Winer has an idea for a conference session:

John Gruber on YouTube on the iPhone

I'm currently beta-testing two new Mac apps that I love and at least one is approaching "can't live without" status.

Quick observation: it's funny how our early years in a community shape our views. For example: In my brain, Dave Winer is the default "Dave" on the internet. Wes Felter is the only "Wes" on the internet, and Jim Roepcke is the default "Jim". Any time I see any of these names in isolation online, these are the guys my brain puts up on the viewscreen.

Yesterday on the Surfin' Safari blog, it was announced that the webkit nightlies have a new web inspector. This new inspector is vastly improved over the previous web inspector and is actually approaching Firefox's Firebug extension in usefulness.

I've moved some of my longer, article-style content over to Wordpress from my Drupal site. All this stuff is also linked in the "More Monkinetic" sidebar, and points to the new locations:

Jodi and I and the kiddo went to a sneak peak showing of Ratatouille Saturday night, and I cannot encourage everyone enough to go see it. It was FANTASTIC - easily the best movie I've seen in ages. The writing is excellent, the story is both conceptually simple yet complex in its depth. Jason Kottke captures a lot of my reaction to the film in his review of Ratatouille (my apologies for the large-scale quoting, but I want to preserve these bits):

1. It's called Bajooter. How cool is that name?
2. He has fingerprints in his logo. Fingerprints FTW!
3. He's a young, indie web developer, and is writing about how to make a small web development shop work.
4. He's also writing to educate clients, which is something we web developers generally suck at.
5. He's a musician with a really cool band name.
6. He's educating me about SEO, without shoving that stupid acronym/term down my throat.
7. Fingerprints yay!

Jim Roepcke has a new development blog, Willing To Fail ("Fearless Research & Development"), and he's been writing about a new project he's working on, Rails on Rules. It's an implementation of a rules engine for Ruby on Rails applications, based loosely on the engine in Direct To Web, a rules-based application framework for Apple's WebObjects.

I can't remember if I posted about this when I put up the "On This Day In..." widget, but I finally got my widgets (both On This Day In... and the hCard About Box) into the public monkinetic widgets repository. Browse the repository here.

I was looking at that last post, and noticed a change in applications menus:

Engadget:

About 3 months ago I was transferred to a new group at work, to help them finish up a release, then to start in on some new features. Well, we are about one week from release, and we're in crunch mode. Because of the increased focus, and stress, posting here has almost dried up! Sorry about that.

The iPhone wannabes have already started. This one has "TouchFLO&trademark". smirk

Man, I really wish I could go to d.Construct this year. It looks like it's going to be great.