Monkinetic Weblog

"Jim"'s been busy today, and has links and opinion on violence in hockey, Corel and Microsoft, and more. Check him out...

eMedicine has been granted a patent on an internet-based publishing system. This is not good. I wonder how big the CMS company will have to be to get slapped with licensing or a cease-and-desist letter? This big? This big? This big?

Have you ever had the experience of knowing about something that was going to ROCK, and not be allowed to say jack about it? I have.
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MacNN has a very useful Mac OS X site at http://osx.macnn.com/ with information on Samba and OS X, a windows/samba client for OS X (!) and more. Check it out!

As seen on Brian Carnell's home page, I've added Labels to my weblog entries. You can click the label to see all messages with that label, making it easy to see all my weblog postings about XML, Mac OS X, or Software Engineering, for example.

For those of us running Apple's new beta OS, Stepwise is your source for the useful, cool, and interesting applications we need.

HP has an API called Jena for manipulating RDF in Java. I'm definitely going to check this out.

Ever the outliner enthusiast, I downloaded Omni Outliner. It's not half bad. Not to mention that it runs on one of my favorite OSes. ;-)

The first post from... Mac OS X Public Beta! Oohhh, yesss!

Jim Roepcke's got his copy of Mac OS X, too, and posted his first message from the Uber-OS.

I've been thinking about RDF again, this time as a means of describing relationships in software design. Business Processes, UI Screens, Participants, Database Tables - these all become resources, and the properties show the relationships between them. A Participant Uses a UI screen, a UI Screen Implements a Business Process, Participants Perform Business Processes... My analyst co-worker is drooling.

Mozilla on RDF.

XNS, or eXtensible Naming Service, is an XML+agent technology. Using XML is great, but XNS seems to have patented the agent technology (idea?) used with the XML. I think this will actually hinder the adoption of what seems to be an otherwise interesting idea. If we have to license XNS's agent patent in order to write compatible applications, then why use XML in the first place? I'm going to watch this one. [via Good Morning Silicon Valley]

You can see how much here.

This is me, this weekend, in the garage. Notice, if you will, the Lava Java t-shirt, a gift from grateful coffee-house owners in Hawaii after I designed a new logo/packaging scheme for them for a design school project. (This shirt bears the previous logo. Full disclosure: they never used my work, after all.)

(Via "HBWT") Microsoft has changed its pricing on Windows licenses, going after the lucrative "what-you-do-with-it-after-we-sell-it-to-you" market. It effectively doubles the price of the OS for small to medium businesses, and oh, and it's going to make them another $11 bn in revenue.

Been looking into RDF again... there's gotta be an app in there somewhere. A problem I see is that sometimes metadata is used to define data... something it isn't equipped to do efficiently. At a later time I may try to backup my statements, but not on the few hours of sleep I'm running on now.

Window frames dry after painting

This is the link. I'm putting it here so I can find it later. This article is about XML, but it contains this high-quality quote re: the MVC architecture:

Sorry about the orientation on some of these... I haven't had time to clean them up.

Jodi scraping paint in the Trunk Room (it's a Victorian term)

The Trunk Room

The new wall and closet

Inside the new closet