Monkinetic Weblog

Cool! Check out the new trailer for Spiderman... Oh I cannot wait. I've been waiting for this movie since 1994.

Once upon a time I was a really good rock climber. My friends and I would be at the rock gym twice a week, and be up in the Appalachians climbing on weekends when the weather allowed.

Via this post on slashdot, I've discovered a great little word processor that's native to Mac OS X, Okito Composer. I think it'll do 90% of what I need a word processor for.

Thanks to Google's new 20 year archive of usenet posts, comes this little gem:

The "column-view" in Mac OS X, affectionately known to Cocoa geeks as an NSBrowser, is a really really awesome and efficient way of browsing hierarchies. I'm working on an app (on and off) that needs an NSBrowser, so I'm posting this link to the Using Browsers topic of the Cocoa Programming Topics documentation.

Well, one of my best friends Nate just got laid off from the company we both used to work for. No two weeks notice, just "pack up and leave". They've never been great about dealing with their employees, but this is just rotten. Two weeks before Christmas.

Looks like some people are still trying to build a better browser. "With OmniWeb 4.1 you should see some major improvements in compatibility and speed. Our goal is that OmniWeb can be your Mac OS X browser of choice for 100 percent of the web sites you visit." Good on'ya, Omni.

(re: the desk picure) Nate asks: "...umm, where's the LEGO U-Haul logo..."

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:

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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. ;-)

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.

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.

"Dear Steve Ivy,

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

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.

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)

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.

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.

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