Monkinetic Weblog

The process Joel describes here is one that I really need to go through on some of my code. Maybe when I get these last few bugs worked out.. Riiiiggggght.

Instructions: Build, Run, Insert debug calls, Repeat.

Dave points to my coffee cup radioFeedIcon. It was really easy to do with Conversant's Resources. I just put \radioFeedIcon\ in my template or message.

Conversant offers a LOT of options when it comes to outputting your content. Any page can have it's MIME type set, and templates (cf 1, 2) can be anything, including HTML, XML, I even tried RTF once. (No go on that one. ;-))

In the case of my RSS feed, the feed is a WeblogViewPage. The WeblogViewPage lets me create any number of ways to deliver my weblog content, in the past I've seen RSS, Avantgo, and OPML versions of Conversant weblogs using this technique.

Oh, and Dave, it's Steve, please. ;-)

Around 12:30 am last night I had to call Jodi in to the office. Looking pleadingly into her eyes, I said, "Honey, I need an intervention. Get me away from the computer!"

We got our Cox connection back last night, and it spawned a bandwidth-induced site-tweaking and blogging frenzy.

I always hate myself the next morning...

I hate surfing around on the zippy internet, then flipping back to the web application I'm writing, and firing up that puppy, and realizing it's slow as dog-crap, and knowing it's my app.

That sucks.

Hmm. thanks to my referers, I have found that I have the #3 and #4 hits for RSS Sources on Google. Cooool. I need to rewrite my rss feed.

This rssFeedIcon is a test.

Been following Arboretum, a Cocoa-based outliner. Not much to seee right now, but DeusX and I have been trading edits on the idea whiteboard.

Hmm. thanks to my referers, I have found that I have the #3 and #4 hits for RSS Sources on Google. Cooool. I guess I should update that soon.

This weblog is really cool. Mark is really open about his dealing with addiction, and recently about the grief of losing someone he loved. Hard stuff, but heartening to read.

In the midst of all this, today is my two-year anniversary of sobriety. Two years from today could be yours.

Thanks Mark.

I finally got my Cox.Net connection back up tonight!! I am SOOOOOO happy! Muahahahahaha.... <evil genius hand-wringing/>

I finally got the referer thing from here working over here. I love referer logs... ;-)

Whew. Big thread on Hack The Planet - over here, tangentially inspired by my post here about IDL. David McCusker has a great line:

If the interface doesn't support the ability to go on, and encourage you to code for failures, then it's just as fragile as a synchronous interface.

Have to read this thread a few times to get it all.

From Wired: A high-schooler has created a glove that translates sign-language finger-spelling into text on a digital device via a wireless connection. That is awesome, and a real example of technology bettering the lives of the handicapped.

Jim and Cheryl (well, mostly Cheryl ;-)) deliver, via "swift and tidy C-Section", and 10 lb, 8 oz baby boy! Congratulations! Dave points out that the infant (name TBA) shares the birthday of the Macintosh. Lucky kid. ;-)

This is so cool. qu.st LIFTworks has a service for Mac OS X that lets you select text in any native OS X app and hit cmd-shift-g to search Google for the selected text.

'Hello."

If you're a Mac user, or curious about the legendary "1984" ad for the introduction of the Macintosh, check out the history here. (That 60 second SuperBowl ad cost Apple $800k, almost as much as the ad itself - $900k.)

The ad almost didn't run, the board of directors hated it and almost fired Chiat/Day (the famous ad agency that was doing Apple marketing then and created the ad), and Steve Wozniak almost put up half the $800k himself just to make sure it ran. Wild.

Jodi talks about the new house we just signed a contract on (woo-hoo!), and laments the lack of information on the site for our previous house. Sorry folks, that's the way it happens sometimes.

Seriously - as Jodi asays, we'll try and get some pics up somewhere of the old place, and of the new place once we're moving in. It's a great place, and we got a good deal on it.

Dave linked to my comment about IDL in non-typed scripting environments, which is cool. I know I've gotten 50 or so hits from it. The link is appreciated - flow is nice. But I'd also like to know what Dave thinks of my idea, since it's relevant to his work and that of others in the scripting community.

I think sometimes we bloggers get on a roll, linking and blurbing, and it's easy to link to something in a very neutral "here it is, I have no opinion" manner. This is not a knock on Dave at all, it's something I do a good bit, and have seen many others do.

Maybe we need to take stock, and put a little more effort to make sure the "personal" shows up in our "personal web sites".

Check this out. "The iMac's owner managed to access his stolen machine remotely, wrote a script to set the AOL client to dial his home number, which gave him a caller ID trace." [via AccordionGuy]