Monkinetic Weblog

Apple is finally shipping the new (drool, drool) G5s. Oooooh, baby!

Watch the world blog in real-time... very cool!

I've been trying to get ssh-agent running on my os x box so that I can work on a remote linux box without having to type my password everytime, and I'm having a crap time getting it to work, and I have no idea why.

Nate is building a robot out of LEGO and custom-built electronics, and it is amazing. It's radio controlled right now and has a radio transmitting video camera. Check out this video of it in action (12.8 mb Quicktime). Go LEGOMAN!

Since this will be gone soon I'm sure.

Sometimes we need to grant admin permissions for a subsite to a group or member. Right now the groups admin pages are horked, and you have to do it via psql.

Good info on how to be a math/systems geek (read Programmer) and not drive your management ballistic and yourself out of a job.

This is the place to buy your cat5e ethernet cable. I just bought 75' of cable, two wall plates, and two wall jacks for just over $16. 50' of cat5 at Fry's was $29.99. D'oh!

Jodi and I had dinner last night with Bill and Sandi. Bill surprised me with a late birthday present, the Coolest Mug Ever!

A while back I wrote an Applescript that would render an outline from OmniOutliner into html based on user-defined templates.

Life can be so unfair.

I'm not much of a Metallica fan but I'm a huge fan of covers, remixes, and mashups.

Chris Lydon's interview with David Sifry of Technorati is pretty cool.

Heh. Ptypes' personality test confirms what I already knew - I'm an Idealist.

James Patten is doing some amazing work at MIT (where else!) on tactile user interfaces (computer interfaces made up of a tabletop that senses the positions of the objects on it's surface) More information and an incredible QuickTime movie here.

Well, we're back! Tired and a bit jet-lagged, but very happy to be home!

Well, tomorrow ends our 2+ week sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida. We've been helping to care for Jodi's grandmother Becky, who is suffering from cancer. Jodi has done the lion's share of the work - I've tried to support her the best I could.

Oh, I miss the internet. "But Steve," you say, "you're on it now!"

from FreeForm Goodness comes the fix for Safari's minimum font size, which changed in Safari 1.0. quoteHidden pref, your ass is mine.

defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitMinimumFontSize 9
defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitMinimumFixedFontSize 9

(you need to enter those two lines in the Terminal.)endquote