Monkinetic Weblog

Part of an information architect's toolbox explained: Managing taxonomies strategically.

Interesting article from Teledynamics: A Blog Is The Answer (What Was The Question?). The article explains business weblogging from a sales point of view. [via ABC]

The last few nights, we've been hearing strange sounds coming from the room where we have been putting the cats overnight. Toby and Lucy are lovable, but can be demanding and downright annoying when they want food and/or attention at 4:30 am.

I know it's a quirk of heredity, but I love being on Robert's blogroll immediately following William Gibson and Dave Hyatt.

Shock and Awe?> Defense officials told Fox News that as many as 3,000 precision-guided bombs will be dropped on specific targets in Iraq during this phase of the campaign Oh my. Does it matter that they're precision guided if you're guiding enough of them them to level a city?

Jodi posted last night about an Iranian woman we got to spend last evening with. She and her family survived the ten year war with Iraq, and had to flee their homes on the Iran/Iraq border when Saddam's troops came. It was fascinating to hear.

The raw materials for tonights culinary exploration:

Ok, so going for a 5 mile trail ride at South Mountain (Desert Classic trail) seemed like a really good idea.

Chris Ruzin re-arranged his archive section partly based on my work on the new calendar on this site. Cooooool.

Others will have more, and better, things to say about it, but I do wish it had not come to this.

I have a client who has recently started IM'ing, and is hooked. He wants to findd an IM app that he can use in his office for interoffice communications, but he doesn't like the ads that AIM includes.

Last night I added a second monitor to my TiBook - and I'm experiencing some strange crashes that seem to be iChat related.

VidMoBlogging by any sane name is still ENG. Electronic News Gathering is a term that came in with the advent of portable video cameras, which meant a news crew could go out into the field, easily grab video and audio of a news event, and bring it back for editing, either physically, or, later on, via satellite.

MacAsylum has released an interesting extension for Apple's December Developer Tools: a set of configuration files called WebSiteProj that adds PHP Website and HTML Website project types to Project Builder.

[Via Scoble] Dan Gillmor shows off some cool new phones from the CTIA Wireless trade show. Very nifty stuff.

Gantt and PERT chart maker for OS X.

Emmanual Décarie posts his QuickLinks - a list of various interesting links - every few days. Today I made it on the list, with a link to Corporate Product Support: The Weblog Generation. Thanks Emmanuel!

More on this tomorrow, I'm tired! I've posted a how-to on using fetchmail, procmail, python, and analog to fetch web server logs from an email account, filter them with procmail, grab the MIME-encoded attached log files, and process them with analog, all scheduled via cron.

Livia Labate posts a list of her IA Toolbox on SIGIA-L.

Ok, so I finally got my server log processing chain working the way I want, and I figured I'd better document it 1) because I'm going to forget very soon how to do it, and 2) because I still get hits from Google for the word 'fetchmail' from the last time I mentioned it, so there's obviously an interest.