Monkinetic Weblog

Well, using a desktop client application that communicates with my content managed website (via XML-RPC) has got me posting again to Redmonk.Net. ;-)

Whew. It's been a while, but there are times you just have to write. I just read this lament by Richard Dawkins over Douglas Adams' death. Sad, poignant, funny. Reminders that Douglas Adams spoke and lived the same way he wrote. "...The depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle."

Current track from R.E.M.'s new album, Reveal. A lush, beautiful album. Other fav's: The Lifting, I've Been High, Reno, She Just Wants, Saturn Return... hell, tracks 1-6 basically.

Raymond Kurtzweil's site is a great example of using innovative technology to enhance the true communication and concept of a site. KutzweilAI.net uses flash and The Brain to communicate concepts on Artificial Intelligence. KurzaweilAI has a really innovative glossary feature that links words in the site into a graphical, associative "brain". Worth checking out, for graphical, engineering, and philosophical interest.

My company is in the process of redesigning their website. Actually, my team is building it. Rather than pay for a lot of stock images, Compass decided to pay for a photo shoot with Compass employees as the guinea pigs. The result?

I'm disappointed to see Dave's immediate, and dire, warnings against lock-in in reference to Omni's Outliner.

Have Browser, Will Travel

CamWorld

R.E.M. News

Mr.Barrett

Hack The Planet Prime

Bump

This one's for you, Jim!

I'm slowly working towards a complete toolkit under OS X. BBEdit has come to OSX, and CVL is working pretty well, and I'm looking forward to getting Dreamweaver and Fireworks on OSX. Freehand for OS X is on it's way (May).

My all-time fav text editor just got better - in fact, it got Carbonized!

Today I'm looking to do something I never thought I would do, and am fairly certain that I'm risking hell-fire: I'm looking to install Microsft Visual Basic on my pc. The situation at work has gotten to the point where we are likely to be billed out as M$ platform web developers, so my only chance at survival is to see if there's a way to implement some time-tested ideas in a new (shudder) environment.

Phil Suh on the Camworld CMS list -

"And that's what good content management systems do: eliminate tedious repetitive work, prevent human error, and allow content authors to concentrate on their writing, and not on the technical tasks involved in publishing."

REM has a photo of the artwork for the new album REVEAL on their site.

From a USAToday article on R.E.M.'s new album REVEAL, U2's Bono:

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REM has a photo of the artwork for the new album REVEAL on their site.

This is great - it&[#39](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/39);s classic REM style (art directed by Micheal Stipe) - UP-ish lettering, country landscape, and shadow of Michael-with-camera. (Can any serious REM fan tell me that&[#39](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/39);s NOT what we&[#39](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/39);re seeing? Think "Document".)

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REM has a photo of the artwork for the new album REVEAL on their site.

This is great - it's classic REM style (art directed by Micheal Stipe) - UP-ish lettering, country landscape, and shadow of Michael-with-camera. (Can any serious REM fan tell me that's NOT what we're seeing? Think "Document".)

More pics of my new home:

this is me in my new cube. actually, i share a double-wide with my buddy hans.

things I'm working on right now:

Well, I haven't been updating this site very often lately... been super busy at work, and at home. Today we (work mates) moved from our old offices (big space, mini-kitchen, large offices) into the new, nice, cubicle-rife space that is the new Compass office. sigh. Now working in a mini cube-farm, we're relegated to headphone use (where before we each had booming sub-woofers ;-)), and smaller work areas.

I suppose we'll get used to it, and it'll mean a lot less driving between locations for meetings and such. But it's still a shame.