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Here are the new benchmark numbers from Jim (in ticks again):

Louis Rosenfeld, co-author of the polarbear book, has started a blog. IAFTWWW is a great book.

Ok, I could SO go for one of these. Herman, oh ye of the Aeron chair, might I leave thy temple?

Sean Gallagher on Microsoft's SDP: "Bill Gates said that Microsoft would still be the one to "productize" anything that comes out of the SDP. In other words, Microsoft would consume the brainpower of its clients, and sell it back to them as software and services."

...This one was a slightly longer trek - about 5 miles, all in the name of filling up the tires.

I just took possession of a bike I'm considering buying from my best friend - a Haro Impulse mountain bike, circa 1996. Of course, I couldn't resist - a couple hours later (just now) I took it out for a spin. MAN am I out of shape! :(

California Public Service Announcement.

Ok, so, having really learned nothing from my first venture out on the Green Machine (affectionately monikered by it's current owner), I got the bike home last night and took it out for another jaunt. This one was a slightly longer trek - about 5 miles, all in the name of filling up the tires. The filling station down the street from me only had the for-pay ($0.50) air pumps, and I wasn't about to pay for air.

Apple is providing a source code patch for applications using Cocoa's Document Architecture. The functionality will be patched system-wide in a Mac OS X update later on. This is the first time I've seen this kind of thing from Apple. Right on.

Anyone know if Terminal Services are still available under Mac OS X?

[via Scripting News] The page is too stupid.

Jonathan "Wolf" Rentsch in Tidbits: Webobjects: WO Is Me... Robert Scoble's YOUR MESSAGE HERE IS THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL is a rant-and-a-half.

Some light reading today. I'm working on a set of build scripts that rely on the behavior of bash; running them in my previous favorite shell - tcsh - produced less-than-desirable results. So, I found bash for OS X here and installed it.

Looks like Dave Winer has finally gotten over Internet Explorer.

Today is my wife Jodi's birthday! Happy Birthday honey! You can wish Jodi happy birthday too!

We're looking into Redhat's Interchange eCommerce product. We have a possible client with a limited budget. Using an open source product like Interchange, running on Linux and PostgreSQL, we should be able to create a solution for them with $0 in software licenses, as opposed to $30,000 for MS CommerceServer, SQLServer, Windows 2000 Server, etc...

Via HTP: The Man Who Bought The Internet.

Fortune sees: Savvy CEO cleverly manipulates the system to make mega bucks, with a guaranteed revenue stream.

I see: freedom online being eroded by corporate interests.

This weekend I was encouraged to check out Locke's writings on government, specifically the Second Treatise Of Civil Government. This post is so I (and others) can find it again later.

Sid 0.5 has been released for download here. Coolest new feature: Labels. Sid can download and save a list of your conversation's labels, allowing you to set the label for a message in Sid, rather than having to edit it again in the browser to set the label.

I've never really considered myself an information architect, but I've done quite a bit of work that would fall into that category over the years. Jesse James Garrett has an excellent article titled A visual vocabularyfor describing information architecture and interaction design. I've just printed it out and will be perusing offline for a few days.