Monkinetic Weblog

Scripting News: 5/17/2004 >At some point in the next few months, there will be an open source release of the Frontier kernel. Not sure what license it'll use. There won't be any grand expectations of what kind of community will develop. Even if no bugs get fixed, if no features get added, if no new OSes are supported, it will be worth it, because its future will be assured. That's the point Ted makes, and that's my reasoning behind this.

Jodi and I are going to San Diego for Memorial Day weekend. We originally thought we'd do the camping thing to be cheap, but after looking into the prices for camps (not as cheap as you might think) we decided that we may be able to get a hotel for not a whole lot more.

I was looking for an image to test some server code with, with stumbled across this cool photo I took at Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's home in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme: >WordPress (GPL), which is an equally powerful CMS, seems like a perfect candidate for those who are considering a switch to a non-crippled, free alternative."

Sean McMains (friend and Conversant user) has been out of work since March when they closed the office of Electronic Arts where he worked. > Woohoo! Just heard from the University, and they extended me an offer! I should be starting on Monday.

I was chatting with Jim last night and he told me that he had been watching CSPAN and saw them debating the FairTax on the floor of the House. I was dubious - I read about FairTax several years ago and never got the impression it would go anywhere - companies wouldn't put up with losing their legal loopholes.

It's about frikkin' time...

Mark Ghosh posted his list of web dev tools, and invited us to do the same, so here goes:

Bill Bumgarner: IP more sacred than life? >In Japan if you develop software that MIGHT be used to violate copyright laws you can be charged with a crime and be arrested. Yet, in the USA, if you manufacture guns that MIGHT be used to kill someone you are essentially immune from criminal prosecution...

Daring Fireball: Writing for Google >Neither of the last two articles were meant for you, however. They were written for Google. Or, more specifically, for people using search engines to find an answer to the same problems I had in the aforementioned articles.

Ok, when Jeff Veen pointed to the new blogger design, I thought, how good can it be? I mean, the previous design wasn't too bad...

The Great Blogger Relaunch: lists some of the new whiz-bang-o features of Blogger.

Jodi and I watched Open Range this weekend. I had heard good things about it, and had read some good reviews (esp. one at C.H.U.D. that I can't seem to find now). The movie was quite good; even Jodi, who's not typically a fan of westerns, thought so. The cinematography is amazing -- lots of sweeping views of georgeous rolling hills and skies. Open Range is not an "exciting" movie, for the most part, but as one reivew put it, it doesn't "fade" either - it seems to get more engaging as it goes.

Heh. I acquired a 2.2 hour recording today from one of my favorite German trance techno DJ's, Gary D. It's a mind-blowing trip -- listening takes me back to a 6+ hour show he put on in a small club in northern Germany back in '96 or so that was as fun as it was exhausting. If you like hard trance (which I do) his stuff is sublime. Curious as to whether he ever made it out of Europe, I Google'd him and found his website, D.TRANCE. Whew! It's as bright as the music is loud!

Jodi and I were over at a friend's house for dinner the other day, and he had gotten the first season of The Jamie Kennedy Experiment on DVD, so we all sat down and watched some of it. Man, it is hysterical! Some of it was stupid and/or particularly rude, but Judge Jamie and Child Island had me on the floor rolling!! I would definitely try and catch it once in a while on TV now. Heh. Funny stuff.

white space: Everything I learned, I learned through Blogging. Interesting read about what one person learned through blogging.

This is a short post to say that monkinetic is going to be moving! This will be the last post on this site ( http://www.redmonk.net/monkinetic) until I can get my content ported and the DNS switched. If you'd like to continue following along in the meantime, the new monkinetic can be found at:

BBC: Estonia embraces web without wires. My wife found this cool article about wireless in Estonia - this is very much like the phenomenon in Africa where they skipped installing landline telephone infrastructure b/c it was cheaper for everyone to get cell phones.

Portsmouth bridge ramp to close, sending traffic back into neighborhood (HamptonRoads.com/Pilot Online)

BBC: Builder survives nailgun accident