Monkinetic Weblog

I'm in beautiful Victoria, BC this weekend, visiting Jim, on of my best friends. I've been hanging with Jim virtually since 1996, and had the pleasure of meeting him several times. This time I got to meet his lovely wife Cheryl, and two astonishingly adorable kids, Cyan and Xavier. Yay!

Schubert IT has the coolest plugin - an inline PDF viewer for OS X browsers. I've tested it with Safari and OmniWeb 5. Super nice.

I had an idea tonight, inspired by a post on Bill Bumgarner's site. Actually, it was in reading Bill's RSS feed in NetNewsWire.

Using Open Firmware, Terminal, and the "bless" command to make sure your Mac boots from the disk you want it to:

Jodi and I went with my new boss David and his wife Kristy to see the live taping of NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel and Spa. We had a lot of fun, even if it was (relatively) cold out. Adam Felber, comedian and blogger, won the quiz, bad jokes were made, and good times were had by all.

I've got nothing on my brother Bob, who (I think) has visited something like 17 countries, but here are my 13:

Don't cut off a cop in an unmarked SUV who's driving his daughter to school in the morning. Bad idea.

Well, we got another cat this weekend! "Jake" was adopted from animal control, was already fixed and so could come home with us on Saturday.

I'm listening to mid-vintage U2 today: Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum. Eventually I'll get to early-vintage: War, Boy, October. October is my fav of the early stuff: I spent many hours as a teen learning The Edge's guitar licks on Gloria on an old classical guitar. (Slipping into nostalgia...)

Jim posted a useful link to a new list of all the __magic__ variables that are used in python modules to make them play nice with scripts, other modules, and documentation systems. Included in the page is a link to something I'd never used before, the "amazing pydoc module" which looks super useful. Much nicer than typing help(foo) in the python intepreter IMO.

If you're a small developer and have found a bug-tracking or issue-tracking system that you really like, please ping me at steve AT this site. I'm especially interested if you're using it in a mainly Mac OS X environment.

Installing MovableType on Panther. May prove useful.

John Perry Barlow posts about iChat AV and the resulting telepresence with Joi Ito.

Cool! Two of the cool toys I got for Christmas are a Podium Pad (essential for the PowerBook owner) and a Kensington PocketMouse Optical Pro. This mouse is totally cool, with a retractable USB cable that hides in the mouse for easy mobility - and after my ancient MacAlly ball mouse, this mouse is amazing!

I posted recently about my new job at Re-Mac Computers. It's been a good few weeks! I've enjoyed working with customers to help them find the Mac that works for them, and I've had the chance to go out and help folks at their homes and businesses to get their Macs up and working as they should. Fun stuff!

I have some news to post, and a backlog of links, but I'm too busy/tired/distracted to post.

Score 640,000+ in 7 levels of Deimos Rising. Rawk! smile

Wow. I'm really tired, but really happy.

Yes, Jodi and I both managed to contract the flu while out of town for the holiday. I think I got it on the plane headed out east, and, well, Jodi got it from me.

Well, I was going to write an essay on what I'm thankful for this year, but it would be way too long and I'm headed out of town tomorrow early. So here's the short list: 1) My awesome, loving [wife][1], Jodi. 2) God giving us the grace to survive 18 mos of unemployment to arrive here with [two][2] [jobs][3]. Thanks God.