Monkinetic Weblog

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!!!!

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.

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.

Dear Senator McCain,

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

Every once in a while, you really need a hex editor. HexEdit seems to be the only freebie I've found for OS X.

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.

Excellent. Missed lunch with fellow Pheonix blogger Bill Brown yesterday for lack of a map... made it today to the original Oregano's in Scottsdale. Good pizza!!

Jason Kottke compares the unix philosophy and the Microsoft one:> If Unix development philosophy is small pieces loosely joined, Microsoft's philosophy is big chunks tightly coupled. Jason uses three words to describe how Microsoft keeps its developers: Friction, Inertia, and Marketing. FIM. I'm not saying that Microsft does not make some amazing products (not including Windows, at least to-date) but that (and this is from experience) it's an uphill battle to mix unix- and Windows-based applications in an environment, because the design philosophies are so different.

Another Apple rumor site.

Ok, I've kept quiet about this so far, becuase it's been blogged to death elsewhere. But I'm having fun playing with my $500 fantasy dollars and 1000 shares of monkinetic stock over at BlogShares.com.

This guy spells out how to enable Rendezvous support for unix services, webservers, etc. Niiice.

Ha! Today's PVP comic strip about killed me!

Dave invents the whitelist.

I'm having lunch to day with a fellow Phoenix blogger, Bill Brown. Coooool.

Another monk-ified blog: Monkuniverse.

Bill sent me a link to Command-Post.org, where they're aggregating blog posts on the war in Iraq. Lots of information there.

Dave is doing a keynote at the Open Source Content Management conference (OSCOM) in Cambridge.