Monkinetic Weblog

I'm visiting the Scottsdale Re-Mac, a local Mac reseller and servicer. Never one to resist a shiny Powerbook (12" in this case) and an Airport connection, here's the obligtory weblog post. smile

This is too cool. Evidently, using the Image Capture preferences, you can share digital devices over your local area network with Mac OS 10.3. Nice!!

I got a call about another small (very small but nice) web site job today. As much as I want a permanent position, there's something special about sitting down to lunch with someone who needs a website and has little budget. I feel like a neighbor - a craftsman. That's nice.

Open the fridge. Take out the tupperware container. Lift one edge of the lid. MMmmm, smell soy sauce, lemon juice, fresh garlic, onion, ginger, sesame oil.

The web designer's online magazine A List Apart has redesigned and relaunched again, and man, is it nice. Gone are the shocking-orange and reds and yellows, this time around it's a subtle mix of modern and painterly styles. Very nice.

Wow. Somebody touched a nerve.

Oh, man, I needed a good guffaw. smile

I don't watch Fox News, as I don't get all the fancy cable channels for my $13/mo. But I've followed from a comfortable distance the bruhaha between Bill "Suitcase Nuke" O'Reilly and Al "Snider-Than-Thou" Franken, as well as the (evidently vivid) on-air blowup between O'Reilly and NPR's ever-collected Terry Gross.

Via Slashdot: Hoom! Maps and Walking Directions To Mordor!

[Correction 10/20/03 2:21 MST] Ok, Dave sent me an email pointing out that that page on Google is © Google, and it points out that the page has been modified by Google from the ODP listing.

Howard Dean's blog posted this clever spoof of the campy sci-fi flick "Soylent Green": Soylent Dean!

Sen. Leiberman is calling his Democratic Presidential opponents rookies who aren't ready to be President.

According to Rogers Cadenhead, Anita Rowland is recovering from surgery:

Upon waking this morning, the first thing through my head was: The only emotion I feel from fruitcake is Fear.

Bill has some good comments on Microsoft's acknowledgement that Longhorn is not going to ship until 2006.

Ok, as a confessed color-junkie, this article on ways to distill natural color pallettes from photographs simply kicks ass.

Mark Pilgrim has some simple to-the-point comments about Rush Limbaugh and his addiction to pain meds.

Russ at MaxDesign continues to provide great CSS resources: this time it's the Floatutorial, on how to properly use css floats. Huzzah!

Argh!! NBC finally kills the last reason to turn to channel 12, as they remove </a&#39;Boomtown&#39; from their lineup. Boomtown was my best reason to watch TV, actually tied with CBS&#39;s <a href="http://www.cbs.com/primetime/without_a_trace&#39;Without A Trace&#39; for the best drama - maybe even best show - on television, IMHO.

Developers gripe about IE standards inaction. What else is new? This article is about CSS, but it could have been about any number of technologies. Bah.