Monkinetic Weblog

I'm going to get into serious deep shit here I think, but I've been thinking a lot recently about the situation in Isreal and Palestine.

Daneba has Carbonized their Canvas drawing program. I'm installing it now. Macromedia's port of FreeHand sucks. IT's slow and of questionable usefulness. Adobe is MIA. So far Canvas (which I just launched) seems fast. I've heard for some time that Canvas had some really powerful features. Looks good so far.

I've been wanting a new look for this site for a while, now I have one! The weblog is the only page for now with the new look (changing a whole site in Conversant is a real task!) but eventually I'll get the whole thing moved over.

NetworkWorldFusion: Don't overspend on application server technology. Webobjects is still only $699. ;-)

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Colophon:

Templates developed in Adobe GoLive. Site CMS is Conversant. I post 95% of the time with Sid. I browse with Chimera. I consume mass quantities of RSS with NetNewsWire.

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

Jim Roepcke. WebObjects geek. Canadian. ASP == Evil. Frontier. San Fransisco. Bandwidth?!? Jim "WOda" Roepcke.

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 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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

The Cluetrain Manifesto

Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions

The Visual Language of Experts in Graphic Design