Monkinetic Weblog

While the rest of the world hunts terrorists or monopolists, India and Pakistan have had it up to their earlobes with each other and are amassing, well, masses of soldiers on the 2000 mile border between the two nations.

Heh. Megnut says goodbye to Windows and ASP, and "Hellooooooooooo, Aqua!". Muahahahaha...

AKMA blogs Forgiveness, in a deep and touching way:

Forgiving wrongs requires us to take them utterly seriously as injuries to one another and to the relationships of which we form a part. And: I tell myself, "It doesn't matter"--but I am not the one who may make that discernment. I'm not in a position to know how badly Margaret wanted pepper on her eggs, nor even of whether she ought to have wanted pepper that much. David Weinberger follows up with: My religion, Judaism, ... puts particular stress on making whole what one has ruptured through one's bad behavior. Yes, you resolve not to do it again, and yes, you don't let that behavior rend the fabric of the relationship. But you also run out to the store immediately and buy Margaret some more damn pepper. As a married man (going on 4 years now) I find that these lessons are the most valuable, and the hardest to face, and the hardest to learn. Part of marriage to me is letting go of "I want"; every day, every hour, loving the other person more than yourself. You can do this (theoretically) because the other person is doing the same. Of course, we are none of us perfect, which brings us to the essential necessity of forgiveness.

The Xopus project (I have no idea how to pronounce it) has released some code that lets you do WYSISYG editing in Mozilla. It's still pre-release quality, but the samples on their page are impressive.

Well, Nate's gone and done it again. This time it's wall art - a 486 laptop wrapped up as a Gameboy. Nate is amazing - this thing changes pictures every few minutes.

Jodi's parents and I went to South Mountain last night, to see the sunset and the city lights. I've mentioned it before - the sunsets out here are a thing to behold.

Long weekend! Jodi's parents are here, mine were here three weeks ago, and Jim was here last weekend. Still have pics of that to put up.

Our favorite platform vendor has managed to completely ignore the release of an incredibly powerful server product for their platform, one which will drive sales of their platform, and will go far to show the power and flexibility of the platform.

Announcing Conversant 1.0b1.

For the last few months, Macrobyte has been working on readying Conversant, their internet groupware application, for release as a 'shrinkwrapped' product. Today marks the first release of Conversant 1.0b1 to Frontier and Radio Userland developers.

Awesome! The recent episode ("Cross Jurisdictions") of CBS' hit show CSI which included the Las Vegas CSI team heading to Miami, was actually the warmup to a CSI spinoff called CSI:Miami. Jodi and I are certifed CSI junkies, and this episode was a definite highlight in the series so far.

Jim was here for the weekend, and we had a blast!!! Some highlights:

Looking for a way to heap adulation and loot upon your friendly neighborhood redmonk? Look no further than my recently un-earthed Amazon.com wishlist.

ignore please

Jim arrived, and is already hooked up on our airport network, and showing us pics of his kids. Fun!

I'm sitting here, wondering what the heck I'm doing at work this early after very little sleep last night, reading some of the blogs in my "those who don't ping weblogs.com" bookmarks list. Of interest:

Doc Searls is blogging the 'Stevent' live.

The box has a dual G4s, fast L2&3 cache, an ASIC Gigabit Ethernet and FireWire sys controller, Big 266 MHz DDR SdRAM Dual Gigabit ports, quad ATA drives, on a 533MB/s bus, buncha other stuff I can't keep up with. "Fastest architecture we've ever built." (He's been describing the maximum configuration.)

The Apple Store has gone away temporarily, as expected, so as to bring us pure Xserve purchasing goodness.

See it here.

To appear here, or here.