Monkinetic Weblog

Do you suppose you might know why I'm linking to this?

I thought of an interesting idea last night, while reading The Cluetrain. The web is all about linking away from your own site. So I thought of the way Google ranks sites based on the number of in-bound links from other sites, so...

Ahhhh, vacations are for reading. Jodi and I went out to the beach for the long weekend to hang out with her parents, down from D.C. and renting a beachhouse. On our way we stopped at the library where I got copies of The Cluetrain Manifesto and Henry V. I finished Henry V, and got 2/3 of the way through the Cluetrain. It really is a great book, though not what I was expecting. And Shakespeare... he is truly a master. Jodi and I also read some more of The Hobbit (which she had never read) and I read 2/3 of a 1972 Jack Trevanian spy thriller which was lying around the house.

I don't know how much longer Redmonk.Net is going to be on the air. I managed to postpone re-registering the domain, not it has expired. I tried to transfer the domain to Dotster, and got this response from the transfer request to NetSol:

Hans is riffing on Apple. Deservedly, most likely.

I'm in the middle of the first largish-scale OOD project I've done. I'm a newbie to formalized design (UML et al) so I'm fascinated (and sometimes frustrated!) at the process.

I looked at my membership roll today... wow. There's some people joining this site. Cooooool. Hmmm - all I have is your email addresses. I am steve@redmonk.net. Who are you? Here's a random sampling of email addresses that have joined my site (if this bothers you please let me know). I love seeing new members - email addresses are intriguing, seeing how people identify themselves in a form of limited communication...

According to Omni guru Ken Case and Omni's road map, Mac OS X browser Omniweb 4.1 will use the SpiderMonkey C-based JavaScript engine - the same one used in the Mozilla browser. Cooool!

The Cluetrain Manifesto

Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions

The Visual Language of Experts in Graphic Design

Hmm. Robert Scoble is touting HTTP Business Services. "His company is being kept afloat by building HTTP Business Services inside corporate firewalls. Makes sense, actually. Businesses have the money to spend on improving their processes and information systems."

Listen to Nickelback covering Soul Coughing's Super Bon Bon while reading RageBoy.

Hans has added perma-links to his weblog. Go Hans!

Dave Winer on Microsft's Scripting Strategy, otherwise known as "All Your Syntax Are Belong To Us". The way M$ chews through this industry astounds me.

Though a programmer/architect by day, I actually have a degree in Graphic Design, and had the pleasure of working with some extremely good designers in my early career. So I'm adding The Visual Language of Experts in Graphic Design to my reading list. Fascinating so far.

Looking for work after your rocketing dot-com turned out to be a pershing missile? NetSlaves has a good article on how tech interviewing works.

Nickelback - This Is How You Remind Me, and Ben Folds Five - Rockin' The Suburbs. Favorite line from Rockin' The Suburbs: "some producer with computers fixes all my s**tty tracks". Geeks shall rule the earth...

Not sure if this can really be considered "Life Outside the Web", but I'm forming a reading list. Current titles:

Hans has been busy lately, especially after updating his PHP-based weblog software. In his words: "you sure do post a lot to your weblog when it's easy..." You bet, mano. ;-)

Read about it here. But just try and buy one.

Splorp on Waste.