Some useful sample code here.

Matt Goyer, who had a traumatic personal experience with my employer, discovers that I'm in the aforementioned evil corporation's employ. As Matt says: Interesting.

Well, after killing bugs for a few weeks, I've got to get back on getting our build process in place. Not the whole thing yet, but I've got to suck the code out of CVS, build a key framework, then do the same for the app.

Thank goodness for BBEdit, which makes editing shell scripts a highly pleasurable process. (Or as pleasurable as shell script can be).

Got to have dinner last night with old-school Frontier guru, Peer-to-Peer speaker, and all-around hoopy frood Wes Felter. We were headed to find some interesting night spot on Mill Avenue, near ASU, but we were both starving and settled for Chili's.

A fun time was had, however, over an awesome blossom, quesadillas, and a couple fine ales.

Thanks to some unfortunate dental work a while back, I'm getting MSN and AOL search hits for "vicodin". Mmmm. Vicodin.

Greg Titus, writing for Motley Fool:

"AppleScript is a way cool technology. Speaking as a NeXT bigot, I'd have to say that AppleScript is by far the coolest software technology that NeXT acquired when they sneakily executed their buyout of Apple for negative $400 million. :-)"

One of the things Wes linked to in our conversation last night (how's that for mixing metaphors) was BitKeeper, a distributed source code management tool. I'm looking over the site now; I'd like personal comments from people with experience working with it, too.

I always wondered what the rainbow-colored boxes were on sites i visited... now I know. And I have one too, now. SiteMeter gives good stats, without having to own a log analyzer yourself. Guess I can leave Macrobyte alone now and let them finish the [hassle hassle hassle].

Around 12:30 am last night I had to call Jodi in to the office. Looking pleadingly into her eyes, I said, "Honey, I need an intervention. Get me away from the computer!"

We got our Cox connection back last night, and it spawned a bandwidth-induced site-tweaking and blogging frenzy.

I always hate myself the next morning...

Dave points to my coffee cup radioFeedIcon. It was really easy to do with Conversant's Resources. I just put \radioFeedIcon\ in my template or message.

Conversant offers a LOT of options when it comes to outputting your content. Any page can have it's MIME type set, and templates (cf 1, 2) can be anything, including HTML, XML, I even tried RTF once. (No go on that one. ;-))

In the case of my RSS feed, the feed is a WeblogViewPage. The WeblogViewPage lets me create any number of ways to deliver my weblog content, in the past I've seen RSS, Avantgo, and OPML versions of Conversant weblogs using this technique.

Oh, and Dave, it's Steve, please. ;-)

Instructions: Build, Run, Insert debug calls, Repeat.

To Read: Name Spaces As Tools for Integrating the Operating System Rather Than As Ends in Themselves

Pre-read thought: The Mac OS X file system needs to implement KVC in its APIs. It may already... I don't know.

The process Joel describes here is one that I really need to go through on some of my code. Maybe when I get these last few bugs worked out.. Riiiiggggght.

You look through your referers and see an odd search request, but know exactly which post it hit.

Been following Arboretum, a Cocoa-based outliner. Not much to seee right now, but DeusX and I have been trading edits on the idea whiteboard.

This weblog is really cool. Mark is really open about his dealing with addiction, and recently about the grief of losing someone he loved. Hard stuff, but heartening to read.

In the midst of all this, today is my two-year anniversary of sobriety. Two years from today could be yours.

Thanks Mark.

From Wired: A high-schooler has created a glove that translates sign-language finger-spelling into text on a digital device via a wireless connection. That is awesome, and a real example of technology bettering the lives of the handicapped.

Whew. Big thread on Hack The Planet - over here, tangentially inspired by my post here about IDL. David McCusker has a great line:

If the interface doesn't support the ability to go on, and encourage you to code for failures, then it's just as fragile as a synchronous interface.

Have to read this thread a few times to get it all.

I finally got my Cox.Net connection back up tonight!! I am SOOOOOO happy! Muahahahahaha.... <evil genius hand-wringing/>

Hmm. thanks to my referers, I have found that I have the #3 and #4 hits for RSS Sources on Google. Cooool. I need to rewrite my rss feed.

This rssFeedIcon is a test.