Monkinetic Weblog

According to Adobe:

Another app I've come to appreciate on the Mac is WriteRoom, a full-screen writing environment - nothing but blackness, green lettering, and you.

Today is my second day at the new gig and I'm getting used to a Windows environment. First installs included Firefox of course, and Eclipse.

After some prodding, I posted the full, and slightly edited, "Building The Franken-site" saga on Drupal.org. It basically covers using XML-RPC as the glue to get Drupal content into a Wordpress template and vice-versa. The next version of this site (under construction now) will work this way.

Jodi and the kiddo and I are out East, visiting the family for a real live vacation. Before leaving, I raided the bookshelves of a family friend, and came away with a couple of pulp sci-fi novels - perfect airplane reading.

I'm planning out the next iteration of redmonk.net, and it involves more close integration between the Wordpress blog and the rest of the site in Drupal. If you're a Drupal hacker, please check out my progress here:

Two Fridays ago, I was laid off from Content Connections. After touching base with a few folks I knew, and sending out a number of resumes, one in particular came together rather quickly. I got an offer early last week.

>The job of a newspaper is to show you what's new.

Friday before last, I said goodbye to Content Connections after 2.5 years. it wasn't my choice but there was no malice involved on either side. These decisions have to be made sometimes.

I've added an extension of the monkinetic weblog called More Redmonk.

In a recent corporate restructuring, I unexpectedly found myself looking for work. Not much else to say right now.

Random R.E.M. moment:

At this exact moment, I'm sitting in my kitchen, working on a freelance project, and listening to jazz on the radio over the muted din of the dishwasher.

This Adaptive Path interview with Michael Bierut (partner at Pentagram, contributor to Design Observer) is chock full of interesting commentary and insights on designers, the design process, politics, etc. Part I, Part II.

It seems every few weeks these days, I'm asking myself why I'm blogging. I haven't yet come up with a "resonable" answer, but I also know that I'm still really enjoy it, even if my posts have become sporadic at best.

Amazing what a little Father's day cash and some inspiration can get you.

I had some fun with GarageBand, iMovie, and a favorite R.E.M. song. The video was inspired by the intro, which comes from the bootleg "Low", as Michael Stipe introduces "Belong".

Content Connections (the company I work for) is launching a new online learning tool called My Power Learning. MPL is a learning style preference assessment - it helps students (especially) as well as parents, educators, or anyone - understand the modes in which they learn and communicate. The assessment is followed by a lengthy and personalized report that explains how you can study and communicate better, based on what you now know about your own learning style.

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Mark D. recalled my attention to the following hilarity: