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6 hours 35 minutes until the year 2000… Seems anti-climactic now, as news from around the world comes in the there was a whole lot of… nothing. Hmmm. How long until you’re in the year 2k?

I’ve been working a lot with “Manila” today, and the last few days. It’s remarkable how the various pieces of this software come together to form a comprehensive whole. Each part works in its own way to blend into the experience. I needed a two-stage registration process, so I simply added a second Prefs xml structure, and made a page that pointed to it. The storage is taken care of by Frontier. Now that’s cool.

James Vornov: “Abandoned web sites don’t start deteriorating like real world objects. More like lives that have ended. Forever frozen flow in time. Past, no future.” Jodi says: “What’s amazing is that some of you web geeks are good writers!”

I think it was Web 98, in Atlanta, July 98? About a dozen of us Frontier users found each other and went to lunch. I’m sitting across from Jim Roepcke, towards the back.

Good morning! I’m making a lot of little changes to the site today, after a long hiatus from real work.

There’s now a nav link to the Discussion Group.

No more cowskull- you can now “talk about the passion”. Did I mention I love “REM”?

I got the soundtrack for the new Warner Brothers movie, “Man on the moon”. The score was penned by the members of “REM”, who also contribute a couple songs. This is a real soundtrack, including snippets of dialogue from the movie, as opposed to the recent spate of “songs inspired by the movie…”

Last year Jim Roepcke and I and a bunch of other “Frontier” users met at a web conference and went to lunch. A few weeks later this picture was found.

Dave Winer is pointing to his new weblog faq. I guess he got tired of linking to Jorn’s canonical weblog faq but not getting any links in return. It’s a pity, really. Must every link come home to roost?

Day Three, “OneSoft” Training.

Dave and Co do it again: Calendar Customization. I love the way these new things just show up in my Prefs!

Day two at “Onesoft” training.

Hey- Dave and Co. added a new template to “Manila” - navigation link html. Sooooo nice. I don’t need it- I like this site’s navigation. But I might use it on one of my other sites- http://weblogs.userland.com/the259diaries/ , or http://webatwork.editthispage.com/. Way to go Userland!

I posted an invitation over on Userland’s discussion group for folks to post questions, thoughts to my discussion group. Did I mention that I love Manila?

I found a “Frontier” developer here in training with me. Chris works with Mason Hale over at Frogdesign, and began with Frontier about the same time I did- 1996.

This page brought to you from the training room at Onesoft, an ecommerce software company in Northern Virginia. I love Manila.

I’m here with people from “Onesoft”, Frogdesign, and Etensity. I wonder what the frogdesigners would think of “Manila”.

I’m in a curious, and perhaps unenviable, position of helping to figure out how to use ecommerce software to run a non-profit, donation-based site. Hmmmm. It brings to light the assumptions built into a piece of software.

With all the talk about open source, and open content, and standards, and what, it amazes me that an ecommerce company can go as far as “OneSoft” has with their OneCommerce product. All the documentation and even sales materials say “Do Not Distribute or Duplicate” all over them. Deja.com has never heard of the product, OneCommerce. There’s no community built around the product. It’s strange after working in the “Frontier” community for so long.