Monkinetic Weblog

Wittenspeak:

"OPP n.

Other People's Perl, which is generally unreadable and thus should be avoided at all costs. Example: "I'm not down with OPP."

Recent personal example: trying to understand the inner werkings of Bugzilla.

I'm downloading Mozilla onto my wife's Powerbook G3. She's been using Netscape 4.7, and I'm just hoping that Moz plays nice with her preferences. After browsing on her machine for a while I forgot how badly NS 4.7 renders some sites.

I'm working on a project where I've been introduced for the first time to the "proper" methods of software design, and am being chained (well, ok, metaphorically) to my desk to write Use Case Scenarios. I have to tell you, there are few tasks more boring than writing Use Case Scenarios. <yawn>. The fact that i got up at 5:30 this a.m. and was in the office at 6:45 a.m. does not help.

Jim has a little accident involving 'rm -fr'. Oouuch.

If you've seen Kubrick/Speilberg's "A.I.", I'd be interested in what you thought of it.

It's not fair... They give us an Amazing, fantastic, preview... and the movie doesn't come out until May 2002!!! Argh!

Don Norman, user experience guru, has written a fantastic article on what's wrong with home theater (meaning home entertainment). Don is the author of "The Design Of Everyday Things".

These are some of the most useful sources for resources related to Cocoa development on Stepwise. Stepwise is definitely the first place to go for a wide variety of Mac OS X development resources.

New Enterprise Pictures from Entertainment Tonight.

The final frontier has a new beginning. UPN's page on ST:Enterprise. Wednesdays 8/7c.

Interesting in contrast to my earlier ST:Enterprise enthusiasm - a NYTimes (registration required):article - "filmmakers continue to be obsessed with "Star Wars"-like space operas and alien- invasion movies featuring a wide variety of slime things".

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New Enterprise Pictures from Entertainment Tonight.

I warn you: I and a bunch of friends were TOTAL Star Trek:TNG fans. There are going to be a lot of Star Trek:Enterprise links here in the near future.

Speaking of... here&[#39](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/39);s a synopsis of an interview Rick Berman gave TV Guide.

Since I'm riding again (another 2 miles of trails today) I just ordered a new lid for my head. I've been tossed enough times to know how important this is.

Software for Information Architects: from Argus Associates, where Louis Rosenfeld used to be a partner. This is good information, especially if you are in charge of UI or Web Architecture for a large information system or systems.

Yes, thanks to OSXGnu, I now have something new to not have time to learn: Python for OSX!

My next ride should be tomorrow afternoon. This time Scott, Don, and I (maybe Hans will come too). We're considering taking machetes along this time to make some more interesting trails. ;-)

R.E.M. is going to be on the Simpsons in November. Right on. ;-)

This week, one of our local radio stations, WKOC (The Coast) will be one of the affiliates re-broadcasting R.E.M.'s show at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. Better catch that!

New category here on Redmonk.Net: Life Outside The Web. Boy do I need one!

Jason Van Zyl: "I would like to propose the movement of the Helma XML-RCP package (http://xmlrpc.helma.org/) to Jakarta."