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RT @TinaGillmor: @steveivy Watch G3 Episode #21 when we post probably on Sunday. http://t.co/Ro64H9nGo1. is a regular topic for us. @Halle…

Well, I managed to survive Monday's brain-bake, so obviously Murphy was not satisfied. Grilling a nice fat rack of boneless pork ribs tonight I got a rather severe burn to my forearm from the grill lid. Damn.

David McCusker gave me a plug yesterday:

And folks need to go visit Steve Ivy's resume and consider giving him some work. He's a bright guy with enough imagination that I figure you can give him new stuff to do without worry. (link) I usually hate to blow my own horn, but I am a bright guy, I've got a lot of experience, and I've got the imagination to know how it can be used. If you need web development or Mac OS X programming work done, please contact me.

AmphetaDesk continues to draw rave reviews, not least because its creator pays attention to his product's users, and is eager to listen to valid criticism if it will make the product better/faster/stronger, i.e., more useful.

Mark Pilgrim has posted an Accessibility statement for his site.

Dave writes: "We're going to make Web services work for Web developers. That means getting rid of arcane stuff that makes sense only to C programmers. "

Well, I understand where Dave is coming from, but I have to argue that without C and its practitioners of arcana, the "web" in "web services" would not exist. The xml parser in Frontier's web services support would be 100 times slower. Google - don't tell me that's not a web service! ;-) - would not exist.

Dave, you're not being fair to people who use those languages. I totally appreciate what you're doing in the scripting world. Seeing web services brought to the masses through your involvement in XML-RPC is a huge deal. We all talk about web services being about inclusive: don't lock out or insult those developers who choose to use .NET or whatever.

I mean, who cares that there are six extra lines in that script? How many lines is a common web service? 5? 100? 1000? If a developer wants to write those 6 lines (which are probably generated for him) why can't he? Is it just because it offends your aesthetic?

On another topic, Dori says "The answer seems to be in Apple support document #14449, [...] No direct link from here, unfortunately, because [...] WebObjects sucks."

Dave writes: "AaronLand is updating. Bravo! I added him to the rotation for my WeblogsComHelper app so his updates will show up on the weblogs.com home page."

"Jim" announces OutlineXplorer, an in-development outliner for Mac OS X.