Monkinetic Weblog

Camera fun - my desk at the U-Haul Webhouse, showing my iMac server, Ti Fighter, second monitor for the TiBook, and the Lego Mac Plus:

Those of you out there that usually chat with me on AIM: we're making a lot of network changes today - I may or may not be able to get them to open up the AIM port today (soon though). If it's important email me.

Jim just released an outline-based IM suite for Userland's outliner. Jim developed this back in January 2000... I think I had a chance to play with it - if the memory I'm dredging up is accurate, it was pretty cool. ;-)

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"Dear Steve Ivy,

We regret to inform you that on Thursday, December 6th 2001, Kudosnet Technologies Inc. will be ceasing operations."

Now that we have ubiquitous networking at home, and broadband access to the'net, I'm going to get an IMAP server set up on my home G3, so we don't have to POP our mail from multiple machines.

OK, so this rocks as much as I thought it would. I finally got my Linksys 4-port-10/100-switch-broadband-router-wireless-access-point working this morning, and am blogging from my couch. I may have to put on a movie just to complete the experience.

Brad Cox (inventor of Objective-C, the main language OS X applications are written in) is building Java Web Applications now. In this article he is complaining about the way most web application servers still treat pages as files. (see JSP)

I've started reading Andrew Sullivan's website pretty much daily. He's a fairly prolific blogger, now we just need to get him to make his posts linkable. Doc agrees.

Jim pointed me to the Jikes Bytecode Toolkit a bit ago... I agree with him that some awesome dev tools and documentation could be developed with this. Gonna have to check it out.

Nick Denton links to a Spanish new site with some awesome information graphics on the goings-on in Afghanistan. Flash. Excellent information design.

Jodi and I have tickets to tonight's taping of "Wait, Wait, Don't tell me!" in Tempe, AZ, our new home town.

Kevin Werbach has written a great article about the rules governing licensing of the radio spectrum, wireless ethernet (WiFi - 802.11b), spread-spectrum technologies, and other things.

Ok, so, like everyone else I hated Wes Crusher on ST:TNG (those who care will know what that means). But I must say that Wil Wheaton, Wes Crusher look-alike and all-around geeky dude, is a riot. And he has his own oft-updated blog and discussion group. Wil's been on my "Reads" list for months now - check him out.

Dave says: "Work without coffee? My brain says no."

David spots a great bumper sticker:

"Avoid meddling in affairs of dragons
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." Some of my readers may not know this is a clever send-up of a famous quote from J. R. R. Tolkien's classic "Fellowship Of The Ring": "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

I'm finally taking a day to hack on a project I've been wanting to do for ages. Others have built RSS news aggregators before, and I don't suppose mine will be anything special, but I'm digging deeper into WebObjects, and hope to implement some cool ideas in my own news aggregator.

Now that we have our super-fast cable connection on one computer, I have to have it on all my computers!!! I want my wireless access point and router to get here so I can surf at high speeds from my couch!

This post is coming to you courtesy our new sooper-dooper cable modem!