Monkinetic Weblog

It would appear that I've successfully installed RedHat 8. Onward!

I just finished sending an email to a product support manager for a prominent Mac OS X application developer on the topic of weblogs for product support and community management. He had never thought of starting a weblog for that purpose and had some questions about what he'd post and how useful it would be.

With our recent tax return, I finally got some clipless pedals today from REI.

Oy. For kicks I just downloaded a copy of Weird Al's "I think I'm a clone now" (cheesy parody of Tiffany covering "I think we're alone now"), and I swear I'm back in art class in eighth grade. Freaky.

This essay by Don Park is a good one, and expresses some of the same thoughts I've had about blogs and newspapers.

Yes, Clark got hisself a brand new toy. Boy am I jealous. No, I don't have a purpose for it. No, I never used the one I have (a 120) enough. No, I could not afford it, even at the low price he paid for it.

Oooh, cool! I haven't been to the BareBones website recently, but I went tonight looking for a BBEdit glossary for Zope, and found out they've done a redesign! Very very nice. Good job guys!

Some day this week I'm going to be receiving from the nice man in the brown truck two largish packages. One contains a 17" monitor, the other an old-ish IBM Z-Pro, with Dual Pentium-Pro 200s, 128 mb of RAM, and approx 6 gb of hard disk.

With all apologies to Howard Rheingold, whose ideas on Smart Mobs are really really good...

Get ready for Microsoft Windows XP Virtual Edition.

Man, oh man, oh man: Scoble points to NEC's new Versa LightPad tablet PC. Light, you say? Try 2 lbs, 0.6" thick. Dzaaaang.

This is your father's first interstate chat transmission from his own WIRELESSly connected laptop computer in the livingroom where there is a fire in the fireplace.

I spent the morning working at the local Starbuck's. It was not one of the unwired shops, but that wasn't a bad thing, as I needed some undistracted creative time. As a result, I got a good start on the design of a mailing I'm going to be doing shortly to some potential clients.

Mark put up a nifty fridge magnet poetry page and contest. Here's my entry, titled "tablet Haiku" in honor of NEC's new toy.

Rats. I wonder how much this costs? I had no idea there was a popular geek-ish conference going on in town! Demo 2003 is happenin' in Scottsdale, AZ, just a scant 20 miles away!

Aaron on the Wireless Future. Sounds good to me.

Looks like Microsoft and the PC vendors are getting the Newton religion. Right on. Too bad Apple doesn't.

Robert Scoble responds to my last post:

Scoble: > Well, I've had some sneaks behind the scenes (not official ones, though). Apple has some cool stuff coming this year to be sure -- including some desktop machines that are outperforming current Intel stuff.

Google buys Pyra Labs, makers of fine blogging software.