Monkinetic Weblog

Someone on[#wordpress](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/wordpress)](irc://irc.freenode.net/wordpress) pointed to this WordPress-powered blog from MIT's MediaLab Europe: Human Connectedness Group Blog

Sun Microsystem's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has a blog. Now, I don't care a heck of a lot about what's going on at Sun, but I am enjoying hearing about life from Jonathan's POV. Largely he's using the blog to address issues that are facing Sun these days, like how they are going to monetize Java, or how to compete with "Free" software.

Jodi and I managed to pick up a few more movies of interest today at Costco, listed herewith:

Oooooh, Rands has a great justification for getting that 30" monstrosity from Apple. N.A.D.D.!

On this day last year it was confirmed that I'm an idealist, a fact to which anyone who knows me would attest.

I found out a cool feature of PHP today. I'm sure that every other PHP hacker on the planet already knows this, but I didn't ;-).

Ok, so I've been doing some thinking about this whole other Steve Ivy thing. While 0wnz0ring the top spot on Google may be fun for bloggers who enjoy messing with PageRank, it's not really fair for someone like Steve Ivy, lead coin expert at Heritage Gelleries.

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There are good reasons some designs don't make the cut... is this an example of "graphic violence"?

Now that I've got all my archives imported, I was watching the apache logs scroll by when the MSNBot requested this rant from Oct. 2000. It's got me wondering if my thoughts on the matter have changed any in 4 years. More on that later.

Well, shoot. I had finally kicked this Steve Ivy off the first few pages of Google, now he (well, his company Heritage Coin) has purchased a well-placed sponsored link on the new Feedster. Yeargh! Foiled again!

If I get off my butt and start arranging it, I'm hoping to hike part of the Grand Canyon this fall with my brother-in-law. Being a hat-man myself, I immediately decided I would need an appropriate head covering for this adventure. Shelly LeSueur, Content Connections' adventuress-in-residence, suggested this magnificent-looking hot-weather hiking hat from a company called Sunday Afternoons.

I've finally got my archives imported into WordPress. It took 3 months of piddling aroud with php, and more knowledge about mysql backups and hacking than I wanted, but it's done. Now I get to do the same for Jodi's site. Fun! :-)

I added a new feature to monkinetic today: "On This Day In [year]". In the right column I've now got links to past years on monkinetic when there were posts on the current day's date. I've always liked the feature on Dave's Scripting News, and thought I'd finally implement it here. I think it adds a sense of time and history that is really cool.

I'm in the process of preparing to import 1700+ weblog posts and 600+ comments from the last 4 years of the monkinetic weblog. I've had to make some archive url changes to accommodate, so please excuse the dust swirling around monkinetic today.

Aaron Swartz: The Weblog: Web Development Restarts >Considering HTML's stagnation and pain, this may be hard to believe fully, but I'm serious. They talk about things like Digital Signatures, tabbed/wizard interfaces, rich text editing, spreadsheets, and drag and drop, not to mention simpler stuff like date inputs, sliders, and repeatable rows.

July and August are "monsoon" season in the desert of Arizona. I've been here almost 3 years now and I'm still not sure why it's called "monsoon", but I guess theoretically we're supposed to get more rain or something. Usually we just get a lot of wind and dust, most often looking something like this.

Well, I've almost got my import script working well enough to push the button on getting 1729 posts from my blog archives imported into WordPress. It's been hairy, parsing 2400 or so xml files, creating posts and comments from them, and creating the connections between them all. Seeing as it's past midnight and I'm pretty tired, I'm not going to run the script on the live site until I'm certain it's right, but I'm hoping that will be sometime later today. This will mean I've got all my content from June 2000 until the present. I have one more database of posts from late 1999 through June 2000 still to do.

Google: all things to all people: > pvera: Google is my ninja

Dave Hyatt blogs about the solution he chose for the extensions Apple is making to (X)HTML to support the new features in Safari and Dashboard. I think he chose the right solution and it's fun to see the conversation played out in the public space.