Morning notes... Got the first cuppa coffee, soon everything will be juuuuusst fiiiiine.

OmniOutliner Renderers has been moved to its own page.

Thanks to the recent improvements in OmniOutliner's scripting interface, I've managed to sucessfully write an outline renderer in AppleScript that outputs nicely structured HTML. Woohoo! My ability and motivation to write longer and more thoughtful pieces for this site just improved dramatically. Learn more here.

Rafe nails it over on rc3.org:

If you ask me, there's nothing more unsettling than the idea that some person believes that blowing up others is so important that they willingly give their life in the process, and indeed, by design. That's a sort of nihilism and fervor that I'm not really prepared to deal with psychologically.

Note to Dave - Mark may have said he does not like outliners; however, he DOES understand the power of an outliner:

I like to edit Python code in an IDE (or in Emacs in python-mode), which autoindents for me and allows me to "fold" code blocks (collapse an outline node) that I'm not currently using. He's already got what you're offering him in Radio's outliner (the one Frontier programmers all love)- but without the ability to easily edit that same script in some other text editor.

Well, we've been building a small DVD library, today we finally decided on a DVD player. Amazon is running a sale on DVD players, and we had a gift certificate (for Christmas last year) from Jodi's brother. So we got this Toshiba SD4700. It plays DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, CD, MP3, CD-R/RW and DVD-R, so I think it's going to grow as our system does.

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Well, we've been building a small DVD library, today we finally decided on a DVD player. Amazon is running a sale on DVD players, and we had a gift certificate (for Christmas last year) from Jodi's brother. So we got this Toshiba SD4700. It plays DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, CD, MP3, CD-R/RW and DVD-R, so I think it's going to grow as our system does.

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Well, we've been building a small DVD library, today we finally decided on a DVD player. Amazon is running a sale on DVD players, and we had a gift certificate (for Christmas last year) from Jodi's brother. So we got this Toshiba SD4700. It plays DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, CD, MP3, CD-R/RW and DVD-R, so I think it's going to grow as our system does.

This afternoon the Coyotes beat the Nashville Predators to end at 6th place. I never cared about hockey (inspite of Jim's obsession with it ;-)) until recently - having an NHL team in town is kinda cool. Still, where DO they get names for these teams? I mean, the "Predators"? Oy.

Mark Pilgrim investigates OPML. He makes some of the same observations that I've made in the past (unfortunately I don't believe I published any of them, so go read his).

Paolo on the Semantic web (though he doesn't know it):

Basically what is happening is that every piece of information, every idea, every concept, every document is getting its own url. You can access it and reuse it.

[via Dave] This joke is for Jodi... Love ya hon!

While I think it was a great idea, I can't help but think that it would have been very easy to make this a lot more flexible.

One of my co-workers is somewhat of a lyricist/songwriter/singer. I've been listening to his demos for a few days now, and I'm pretty impressed. The demos, but his stuff gets in your head and doesn't leave. Esp. check out 3 Days, Bookworm, and South Mountain.

I was looking through my referer logs today, and noticed a new entry: turns out it's a new blog by an old buddy - Chris Ruzin is another designo-geek I knew back in my days in Germany. Looks like he's back in the states and looking for work: if you need such a one as him, check out his resume.

[via the Google Blog] Yay! Google announces a new SOAP-based api for programmers to write applications that access Google.

[via Anita's LOL] Adam Felber, comedian and regular panelist on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR, has a blog! A sample:

Last night's Academy Awards ceremony, one of the longest in recent memory, showed us a Hollywood that was forced to take a good long look at itself and its priorities in the wake of September 11th...

Anyone who has done a modicum of software design is familiar with use cases - (usually) short blurbs that describe all the ways the software can be used.

Boy my brain is tired. I've spent most of today trying to comprehend the Charlie Foxtrot that is my company's main database. The business rules involved are insanely complex, and are giving my a Grade-A headache. Oy.

This article in the NYTimes includes a comment on the origin of the name of Google's mystically powerful PageRank&trademark: