Monkinetic Weblog

BTW - GBDirect does a lot of software development for IT-industry site The Register.

Well, ok, not really... But I checked out Fandango.Com after seeing the ads at the last few movies I've seen. Fandango (so far) seems relatively simple. Browse in, find a movie, and buy a ticket for your local theater. Cool!

GBDirect, a UK-based consulting firm, has some interesting eBusiness-related case studies on their site, including a good one on implementing an eCommerce site using open-source software.

With all the bruhaha going on about Microsoft's new Smart Tags feature (esp. in IE6) I have to wistfully note - intead of "Smart-Tags" in IE, Microsoft could have had a PR glory day and been the first to widely distribute a working implementation of XLink, the long-awaited XML-linking spec:

Wes Felter's discussion group is one of the most intellectual pieces of 'net property I visit. I only lurk, as I honestly don't always follow everything that's said there. Folks to listen to: Aaron Swartz, David McCusker. David's mind especially is incredibly dense. And I mean that in the nicest way - his brain, as visualized on the intellectual space-time-continuum would be like a black hole. Warning: David's weblog is a journey through a mind that does not work like yours.

Inessential: "Cocoa and Objective C seem (so far) much cooler than I expected. So when I see the mountain of things that are so damn right with OS X -- and Cocoa is just one of many things -- the few things that are not right just bug me all the more."

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

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

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

Redmonk.Net is switching servers this afternoon. Jim did some benchmarks for me on current site speed (numbers in ticks):

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.

[via Scripting News] The page is too stupid.

...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! :(

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.

California Public Service Announcement.

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

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."

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.