Monkinetic Weblog

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.

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.

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

BBC: Builder survives nailgun accident

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.

My position with Content Connections is basically tech support / IT with some development thrown in. One thing I love about it is that I'm completely empowered to improve the things that we get complaints over.

Well, I've mostly got (at least the front page) design done here, now I'm just waiting for my previous host to export my content from the old CMS so I can import it here.

Jim Roepcke's weblog: Finishing what I started

This site is now run on Wordpress, a very cool, feature-rich blogging system. I've got a new host at a price that's hard to beat, and I'll have total control over the software and physical access to the server. Yay!

Jim Roepcke's weblog: Finishing what I started

Jim has been a great friend to me over the years, from mailing-list-co-member to development mentor to friendly acquaintance, to real friend. I've watched him go through some really hard times and tried to stand with him as best I could.

I am so stoked that Jim is headed back to school, and has gotten himself out from under all the debt he found himself in as a result of the aforementioned hard times. Jodi and I are trying to do the same, tightening our budget so that we can retire some long-standing debt. It's incredibly freeing.

Proverbs 22:7: The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

It's the truth, folks.

Congratulations, Jim and Cheryl! Good luck with your studies Jim, and Cheryl - we want pics of Cyan and Wavie! :-)

I published a 2 song playlist (iMix) on the new iTunes Music Store...

HTTP error 448: Gone until you stop paying attention to people I dislike.

Design by fire: Gurus vs. Bloggers, in which the sites of the web usability gurus and the sites of popular bloggers are judged head-to-head.

John Gruber, a Mac-user and sometime developer, comments on Eric Raymond's recent Linux-usability rant. He makes some really good points. Desktop Linux is not going to grow in market share with any real speed until it's enjoyable to use. That means it looks good, gets out of your way when you want it to, and is right there with the right options when you need it. You know, kind of like a Mac.

Woohoo!! The first Beta of the new LaunchBar is out, and it's a doozy! It has a ton of features the author of this articlee found lacking, in that clean, unobtrusive interface I'm come to love and depend on.

Jim posts a great bit about growing up. As geeks, we get really attached to our tools, the stuff we spend years in up to our virtual elbows, practicing our craft. These tools can, unfortunately, even crowd out "real" relationships - geeks are notoriously bad at prioritizing. smile

I've recently added a second Python install on my OS X box, in /opt/Python. I've got a script with a shebang at the top: