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Jim is "urgently in need of work". If you need an awesome coder, a great mentor, or all-around great guy in your company, check him out.

Be aware - Jim needs to work remotely, and he's by far the one I would bet one if I could hire a teleworker. He's motivated, creative, and productive.

This is excellent news. The Woz is starting a new company ("Wheels of Zeus", aka "wOz")to make wireless consumer handhelds, to "help everyday people track everyday things".

Good luck, Woz!

Techno-Weenie has a proposal for a Common XML-RPC API for Weblogs. While I tend to think of such things as a good idea, in this case I think the API is too specific to Blogger and Manila - the two largest blog hosting services.

Todd Gureckis has a cool photography-based weblog, including comments on each photo. Very cool. Also check out his well-designed main site here.

I like finding new ways that people are branching the weblog concept.

I've started working on some enhancements to Radio Conversant.

I've been working on something fun for RadioConversant. ;-)

Unfortunately, due to the recent discovery of an AIM exploit, our firewall admin has closed off AIM. Smart move, except that the exploit is specific to the Windows version of the AOL Instant Messenger client - not clones, and not on non-Windows machines. I, on the other hand, use Adium on Mac OS X.

Therefore, for now, if you need to get ahold of me you can use email.

Unfortunately, due to the recent discovery of an AIM exploit, our firewall admin has closed off AIM. Smart move, except that the exploit is specific to the Windows version of the AOL Instant Messenger client - not clones, and not on non-Windows machines. I, on the other hand, use Adium on Mac OS X.

I just saw on Conversant's support site that Conversant is not tied directly to Frontier's object database for storing data. Instead, Macrobyte has written a database access layer and driver architecture to abstract that away from the groupware app itself.

Of Radio Conversant. Please stand by.

Through an interesting twist of link I ended up on the old Script Meridian website today. For old times sake I trawled throught DOODADS, and came across what is probably the last Frontier script I ever released. Load Regexed Images would let you give it a regex to apply to a folder of images, and load any image that matched the regex into Frontier's object database. I was hacking Frontier a lot back then - 8/7/1998. (Background)

I have a quandry: Jodi and I have been invited to a friends house for dinner tonight with a bunch of other people (many of whom I'm thinking we will not know). I think it might be fun to go, but I don't do extended social engagements as well as Jodi does. I'm more inclined to go bouldering at my favorite rock house. What to do?

Via more like this, a good explanation of why HTML clicked for me, and later on, for Jodi. "In WordPerfect you could "reveal codes" and fix things that weren't quite right. "

Quick Note: I fixed the "replies" info on weblog posts, so it now includes direct replies to the post, and their replies.

Tom Negrino at Backup Brain, to whom I think I have never linked, has some great tidbits about the iPod from Macworld: "We're nowhere near maxing out the power of the iPod's hardware."

Overheard at work today: "There is no way in hell I'm touching [that] code."

On another topic, Dori says "The answer seems to be in Apple support document #14449, [...] No direct link from here, unfortunately, because [...] WebObjects sucks."

You'll enjoy this. Quicktime, 2 mb.

NetStruxr has put out a new release of their excellent WebObjects 4.5 frameworks.

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