Monkinetic Weblog

I just got back from re-introducing the Green Machine to the dirty stuff. Seems some local bmx-ers have converted a local vacant lot into The BumpLands - mounds of dirt of every shape and size (and level of rain-saturation) just perfect for falling off of!

Well, Opus is halfway to being properly installed in the closet. Right now it's in the closet, but still attached to a monitor/kbd, as I'm not quite ready to let it run unattended.

Found this over on blogdex: Caring For Your Introvert.

Intaglio: I really really wanted to sign up for the beta program for this cool-looking Mac OS X drawing app, but alas, the email address they provide is being bounced as a denied relay.

Geez - so much bruhah to update the system. System Update it ain't.

w00t!!

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

Linux Admin Made Easy: Here's a good page explaining all the partitions that are part of your basic Linux install.

Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing linked to Sean McMains' oh-so-cool Arcade game PC. Awesome stuff!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Get ready for Microsoft Windows XP Virtual Edition.

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

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.