Jodi and I got [Once](http://www.foxsearchlight.com/once/) from NetFlix this last week. I didn't know what to expect, I only knew that it was about an Irish musician, and that it had gotten some awards.

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Introducing Squirrelfish Extreme:

It's not perfect yet, but commenting is working. You may get an error message after submitting, but the comment will be posted for me to moderate.

A few more changes going on around redmonk.net lately:

One of the things I'm interested to ask the [working from !work] portion of the greater inter-verse about is: where do you work?

This post is a reminder/bookmark for myself and anyone else on how to customize a StyleCatcher theme in Movable Type without losing the ability to use the original theme in the future.

This time, it's moving this blog to Movable Type, the afore-mentioned kick-ass blogging system.

A reminder for social software nerds in the Bay area: Six Apart is hosting a Portable Contacts hackathon today, and tomorrow is the Portable Contacts Summit at the MySpace offices. I want to talk more about Portable Contacts and what this means, but that's for another post.

I can finally (with sincere apologies to Zeldman and crew) talk about new developments in my personal and professional life, and I'm stoked to do so!

After a fun trip skydiving with my father and two brothers this past week, I wrote up a guest post on Dustin's new blog on 4 Tips For A Successful Man-venture.

It's been a while since I've posted about what's going on in the DiSo community, and I had started to prepare a list of recent developments to share, but on the way I felt that there was a theme I wanted to address first.

Ok, these may be really really stupid or really really practical ideas -- so no comments starting with "Steve you're an idiot!" -- but I was thinking today about ways to generate power around the house.