Eric Olsen (via Dave) on blogs:

Brad got his photos from the AZ(+NY) blogger bbq ("blog-b-q?") up online. My vote for best pic: Damien wows us with New York mouse pads ("3D!").

I've been using Launchbar from Objective Development for a few weeks now. All I can say is... DAAamn. That's a FINE pice of software. Launchbar indexes all your applications and documents (all configurable) and then gives you access to each of them in as little as 3 keystrokes.

Damien and Brad finally showed up. After a great dinner of teryaki chicken and (slightly tough to be honest) steaks, we're sitting down for a bit o' Taboo...

Well, it's started! Mark and his wife Kim got here first. TiBook count: 2.

Esther Dyson is quoted on Evhead:

"A conference is always an attempt to orchestrate. Now, it is also something to annotate." Lately I've had this whole annotation thing stuck in the back of my head. Inspired perhaps by the W3C's Annotea, or perhaps by the semantic-web brainwashing I've been receiving over on[#swhack](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/swhack)](http://blogspace.com/swhack/chatlogs/), I've been hacking on a python app (cgi for now) that will one day let you annotate this site with related links. If, of course, I ever finish it.

I totally ripped the title off from some other blog, or movie. Anyway, my life has been too dominated by work, and a few other things, to post lately. But here I am.

It is 3 AM, and I'm on the upstairs couch at work, trying to relax and eventually get some sleep. My app has (finally) been online for 30 minutes, and I feel like a nervous father watching his kid ride a bike for the first time. In traffic. At the Indy 500. (!)

As I post this we are flipping the switch on the app I've been working on for 4 months. Here goes nothing...!

Dave started a weblog directory. He doesn't have the biggest one though.

WARNING: The Rice and Bean burrito from Rito's in suburban Phoenix (it's the kind of dive that sells one thing, and does it better than anyone else!) maintains a microwave-induced internal temperature that is substantially higher than mere physics can explain. Consider yourself warned.

Ok, this is not going to happen often, so all you left-wingers out there listen up! -) Rafe over at rc3.org is right. Er, left. Er, correct:

Democratic Senator Russ Feingold has won me over to his way of thinking. ... Feingold argued that Ashcroft should be confirmed because the President has the right to get the cabinet he wants. If we give the President free rein to choose his cabinet, then we're free to judge his administration on the actions undertaken by that cabinet.

I've been up to my ears recently trying to get an app out the door for my employer. This has adversely affected my blogging frequency. I'll try and do better. -)

A great resource for any web designer, Interaction Design Patterns.

[5:19]  <redmonk> for instruction of future generations:
[5:20]  <redmonk> always cd to the directory of the files
you are listing,
[5:20]  <redmonk> or you will delete the contents of your
 build scripts directory instead

I'm only one or two steps from being able to realize a dream I've had for the last 5 or 6 years. I've been developing web applications since 1996, and like all geeks I've longed for a server of my own. ;-)

As seen on[#swhack](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/swhack)](http://blogspace.com/swhack/chatlogs/):

[4:33]  * Morbus runs away.
[4:33]  * Morbus throws handfuls of ferrets in
redmonk's general direction.
[4:34]  * redmonk targets railgun on Morbus
[4:34]  * redmonk ducks ferrets
[4:34]  * redmonk pulls trigger
[4:34]  * Morbus starts pounding on the jump button
like a lamer.
[4:34]  <redmonk> *whang*!!
[4:34]  * Morbus respawns.
[4:34]  <redmonk> *splutch*
[4:34]  * Morbus respawns again.
[4:34]  <redmonk> now this is the way to play quake
[4:34]  <Morbus> heh.
[4:35]  <Morbus> ircuake.

My good buddy Nate got his LEGO motion-tracking robot working! The best quote: "the most important thing I've learned is that the physical world is still not perfect. Bummer."

I've started using Blosxom for a small local-to-my-desktop internal work-related blog. It's not a fancy blogtool, but it's not a fancy blog. I write up in BBEdit what i want to say, and save it to my blosxom directory. "Too easy drill sargeant!" Go Rael!

I came into work today, checked my app's status, and found 3600+ deaths in the app monitor. I checked the logs files and found over 8000 (empty) log files. D'oh! I've got my work cut out for me today. :-(