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Jonathan Ive, perhaps most famous as the man behind the design of the original iMac, talks to Wired about the design of the new Power Mac G5.

I got a iChat video chat invitation from Sean McMains today, and I was like "I don't have a camera..." When it popped up it was a one-way video chat - I could #enclosure filename=" ichat1wayvideo.pdf"='iChat1WayVideo.pdf"' linkonly="true" urlonly="true">">see Sean (PDF) and he got an audio feed on his end. Very very very cool!

John, please go back to OS 9 and leave us alone.

Well, Dustin and I went to the Apple Store for the Stevenote, and left happy. I'll leave you in Feedster's capable hands for more WWDC news from the blogoshpere.

Hehe. Bill points (haha!) us to one fan's obsessive documentation of Harrison Ford's liberal use of The Finger. Haha!

I've been working all week on a new OpenACS package that does form-to-mail, hopefully in a pretty secure manner. It's a learning project, and I wanted something pretty useful (so I would not lose interest too quickly) but not so hard that I'd burn out.

Jade Rubick's A Quick Intro to OpenACS Templating is actually an excellent guide to how the .tcl, .adp, and .xql datasources interact in an OpenACS page.

Ahahahheheehehh...

Jim (who's getting behind in his blogging lately, hehe) pointed me to this great article about Ang Lee and how he "got into" the Hulk character during production... Very good article!

I cannot believe I had not seen this yet:

Collaboraid's Package Developer's Guide, by Lars Pind.

...about what's in store for the Mac geeks attending WWDC. Rosai Group has some lovely tidbits here. quoteA new open file system design features reduced dependencies on HFS+, and a new Finder departs from its System 7 origins to bring an extensible architecture, smart folders (think Smart Playlists)endquote And... quote...Panther will eventually deliver the ability to remotely log into a 10.3 server as a graphic user interface shell, allowing users to work remotely from a thin client while leaving the heavy processing on an Xserve.endquote and... quoteSimilarly, multiple users will be able to log into the same system as graphic user interface shells at once, enabling quick, and even instantaneous, switching between multiple users on the same machine.endquote

http://127.0.0.1:8000/doc/acs-templating/tagref/

Ed Cone has an interview up with Rick Boucher, smart guy Congress-dude from Southwestern VA.

Fascinating new development environment for building Objective-C Cocoa apps, called ObjCBrowser, based on a SmallTalk IDE. By Joe Osborn. (Thanks Mike!)

A very much improved MacCVSClient, v1.8, is released. (MacCVSClient has been around so long it has a 68k version. Wow. smile)

A couple days ago, a borked config file led me to believe that I had completely hosed my OpenACS setup. I ened up re-installing openacs and the database schema. Luckily, I backed up the templates and some scripts I had customized, so as I get sections of my install backonline I'm mostly able to do it quickly.

Anywhere.

Happy birthday to you!!!!!

Seeing as I'm hanging out in #openacs a lot these days, I wanted a better IRC client than Snak. Snak's ok and all, but it's Carbon and it shows. I found a new client that seems to be very much a Cocoa app, with most of the features you expect from an IRC client: Akwa.