Monkinetic Weblog

If this shows up on the weblog, then progress is coming along nicely on Sid2, a native Objective-C version of Sid.

After complaining that I could not afford to buy Aaron Hillegass's Cocoa programming book, I got smart today and checked out the Phoenix Public Library website.

AP: Suspect Had Flight Manuals

A suspect in an alleged scheme to obtain fraudulent student visas had flight manuals, a drawing of a plane striking one of the World Trade Center towers and a date book with a lone entry: Sept. 11, according to court documents. Norfolk, Va, is one of the 5 cities in my home town area of Hampton Roads. Wow. Very scary.

Dave writes:

"Yesterday we released a change to this core routine that allows the user to completely replace writeRssFile in an update-safe way." Maybe we'll begin to see Radio users providing RSS 1.0-compatible feeds now.

How can something so overpoweringly foul come from our two terribly cute and cuddly felines?

If you use Mac OS X, you simply must get Launchbar, from Objective Devlopment. I'll not rant more now, just get over to Objective Development and get it. $19.95, and the best shareware you'll buy. Do it simple, do it right.

It's late, but I wanted to mention that our pics from Monday's trip to South Mountain are up.

Applle has a new Mac OS X page up on Jaguar, highlighting some of the previously mentioned new features, including iChat, the new Address book, Sherlock 3, new Finder capabilities, and more.

WWDC Keynote:

Jobs: "A week from tomorrow there'll be some news on the server front." May 14th: Apple introducing a dedicated server, rack mount model.

WWDC Keynote: Finder improvements coming in the next version of OS X:

Finder improvements -- integrated search, multithreading support, automatic thumbnail creation, spring loaded folders.

WWDC Keynote:

Inkwell. Handwriting recognition technology. Recognized by any application that uses text. Shhhh... If you're very quiet, you can hear it: neeewwwtoonnnnn......

Steve Jobs, WWDC Keynote: > "Mac OS 9 isn't dead for our customers, but it is for [developers]. Today we say goodbye to Mac OS 9 for all future development," said Jobs.

WWDC Keynote:

iChat: AIM-compatible messaging built in to Jaguar. Can create buddy list of anyone on the local network, as well. You can use your Mac.com name and don't need AOL account.

Mark's gone all fruity! Very nice redesign, Mark!

My parents, Jodi, and I went north to Sedona yesterday. We hiked up to Cathedral Rock, a breathtakingly beautiful formation with a view for miles and miles. It was about a .7 mile hike, with a rise of about 600 feet.

[thx Shifted Librarian] Time article on the next Matrix. Yummy.

I forgot to mention that Blue Shoe Diaries is back up and running after a brief (but too long!) GeoCities-inspired hiatus. Yay Angie! You rock.

weblogs.com is "having a spaz attack" (as anita says), and we in the blogging community are feeling the pain of centralization. Heck, I'm wandering the 'net aimlessly without my Blogtracker panel (fed by weblogs.com).

We finally got our camera and new monitor! No time to blather on about them now, but you can see the monitor (and my lovely wife Jodi!) here (pics of course taken with the new camera):

Dave has put up a fast loading version of Scripting News, as their static server is down. I have to admit whenever I see this version of Scripting News, I'm taken back to 1996, '97 when SN was small and fast. It makes me want to rip the images off my site and strip it down to nothing. FAST FAST FAST!