Today is the second day of Behind The Curtain, A Day In The Life Of Webloggers.

Conversant now has event calendars! Way to go Macrobyte!

On Being A Geek

Per Rob O.'s recomendation, I ordered Jon Katz' book "Geeks" (From Barnes and Noble) and started reading it tonight. My wife just finished "Microserfs" , by Douglas Coupland, and loved it. She's already started again. Why mention Microserfs? Because like "Geeks", "Microserfs" deals with what makes me tick.

I loved "Microserfs". Douglas Coupland's writing is personal, funny, ironic, and touching, all without going completely overboard. As a longtime nerd many things in Coupland's book touched a nerve in me.

Katz' "Geeks" is turning out to be a whole different experience. "Geeks" takes the clean-LEGO world of "Microserfs" and rubs off the shine, exposing the pain and isolation of not fitting in, as well as the triumph of being indispensible to a new world of communication. Coupland's "Microserfs" is a novel, "Geeks" is simultaneously an expose and a manifesto, part reality-based television and part Declaration of Independence.

I've only gotten through the first two chapters in "Geeks". I think I'll have more to say later, but for now,

Ciao

--Steve

Well, on my machine, http://www.redmonk.net/ points to this site. Woohoo! Thanks to Macrobyte and Network Solutions.

Seth, of Macrobyte and Conversant fame, also known to some as "The Optimizer", breaks a personal record. Way to go Seth!

Major Kudos go out to Seth Dillingham and Macrobyte Resources, makers of fine content management systems and groupware for the web gourmet.

DW, re: Manila: "We use the tools, we're sick of how awful we are, but we also know that they're the best that are available anywhere. What a conundrum."

is coming along well. Conversant's style sheet editor is great. The form interface takes a lot ofthe guesswork out of "what do I put where?"

I've spread the template around the site a bit... Now I'm squashing GUI bugs and finding the remnants of old tempalte lying around.

image for site

My name is Steve Ivy, and I run redmonk.net. I'm a web developer by trade, formerly of U-Haul, Compass Technology Management, CBN, and ArtLab Europe. My unofficial title could be web architect, designer, and Conversant/XML/R.E.M. evangelist.

This is a test page. This is test content.

Doc Searls has an article on Jabber, an XML-based chat client and server, in the Sept. Linux Journal. Looks like good, technical reading.

Resetting Templates.

I love seeing what others are doing on the web. At the main Free-Conversant site, MacroByte has a list of other sites that are using Conversant. Check 'em out! You may learn something too!

Anyone doing Java development and need a good resource on OO design? Try this PDF. Trust me.

MacFixit, resource extraordinaire for Mac in trouble, has started a Mac OSX page. Here's to all you black belts out there: Welcome to the future, and don't give up!

sorry about the mess. i was editting temapltes when i broke them. still trying to fix it.

This is great. I want a copy of that chart.