Monkinetic Weblog

While looking for the previous link to the lyrics for Welcome To The Occupation, I found out that Murmurs.com started a peer-to-peer network called "give it away" for trading live and unreleased R.E.M. tracks. Evidently they've run this by the band, since the band also gave them permission to include B-Sides from the various singles as well as fan-club-only releases.

hehe. This post is consistently one of my top Google referrers. A reply, posted today, gives a clue why... smile

Seth writes about Acme Bookbinding, a client who he helped to move to Conversant using a very comprehensive Manila-to-Conversant tool Macrobyte developed.

Bill Bumgarner has, for now, gotten himself switched over to publishing his Radio weblog to PyCS.

Today's PVP describes my current movie obsessions, perfectly.

After not being able to use my second monitor for ages, while it sat dead on my desk, taunting me, today I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.2.5 and voila! No more monitor-induced crashes!!! My TiBook does NOT require service, and I am now happily computing on twice the screen real estate! w00t!

If it weren't in the LATimes (user:annoying, password:annoying), I'd expect to see it on Crazy Apple Rumors... Apple is evidently in talks with Vivendi to buy Universal Music Group, in a move related to rumors of a new Apple online music service.

Bill Bumgarner, who was recently looking for a new weblogging tool, talks about the spate of suggestions he got.

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" border="0">Merlin points us to Clutter, a new Mac OS X app for the musically obsessed.

Boxes and Arrows How-To: Creating a Controlled Vocabulary.

Chillin today at my buddy JP's house. He telecommutes on Tuesdays, so we're hangin' out today, working on our respective stuff.

Wired has a totally cool article on the special effects in the new Matrix films, and how Gaeta and crew are stretching the limits of how realistic CG is done. Awesome! I cannot wait for this movie. May 15!!!!

Somehow this site (thanks Bill) seems like something Douglas Adams would have written. Awesome.

Random Stuff:

• Thanks to Scoble linking to this post, I'm now[#41](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/41) on Popdex. I'll be gone in a couple days, but it's been fun!
• TidBITS is looking for a CMS, Zope/Plone mentioned as a possibility.
• I rode 16 miles yesterday, in 1 hour, 20 minutes. My longest ride this year.

Scoble says he was told that Jim Fawcette (of Fawcette Publishing) thinks weblogs are a waste of time.

This is too amazing to be true, but it is: Palestine-born US Citizen, and Intel employee Mike Hawash was arrested as a material witness by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and is being held without access to a lawyer, without being chanrged, in solitary confinement.

Dori responds to my earlier post with some good points.

Scoble's got a series of posts and replies relating to a bill in Oregon that would make it law that state agencies would have to consider using open-source software. The first post is this one.

Dear Senator McCain,

Ok, so I nuke a cup of lukewarm coffee to warm it up. I take it out, and dump in a teaspoon of sugar. Very normal.