Well, after nearly a year of work, on and off, and spending the entire christmas holidays working our butts off… we completed the Master Bedroom and Jodi’s dressing room.
Before and After:
It’s like a huge burden lifted! There are a few tiny details to complete, but we’ve moved in.
Hi everyone. I hope you have a great New Year! We’re having a sort of New Year’s “Open House”… we’ve got friends and family over, enjoying each other’s company and fellowship.
I hope you’re all enjoying yourselves!
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2000/jw-1221-reflection_p.html
Servlet programming techniques with good information about how to architect your servlets to be expanded later with new functionality.
OK, so the theory is that I follow the web, read interesting stuff, and post links here, as well as let you know what the heck is going on in life.
But, that hasn’t eactly been happening lately. Why?
It’s this house. Our lovely Victorian house has been undergoing extensive internal plastic surgery for the last month. Every weekend, and many weeknights, have been spent painting, spackling, caulking, nailing trim and moulding, all in the hope of moving into our new Master Bedroom over the holidays.
Newsflash: I think it’s going to happen. Wheew! There have been a few times when I doubted it. I’m finishing some painting today in the adjacent dresing room, so Jodi can begin wallpapering there. Woohoo!
We’ve got some great amber/butter colored wallpaper that is going to transform these old walls nto a cozy place to retreat from the chaos in the rest of the house. Thank God!
[via “Jim”] XML Transition Network Definition. Looks interesting. We need more open workflow-management systems. Most are high-end, integration nightmares.
of the email interface
[via “Scripting News”] Dubya with his Mac Powerbook?
Ties
Shirts
Electric Drill
Computer Books. I think I may want the canonical C book, whatever it is. If you know what the canonical C book may be, please let me know. I’ve heard it mentioned before - one of the authors is something like Kearny, or Kearnsey? I can’t remember for the life of me.
Wait - found it. The C Programming Language. Kernigan and Richie, or the “K+R” C book.
Of my 355 search results (for “Programming C”) on Fatbrain, the K+R book was the first hit returned. The second hit was Object-Oriented Programming and the Objective C Programming Language. This is funny, because I’m getting into programming for “Mac OS X”, and this book is Apple’s intro to that environment. I don’t want this one, though, because I can download it here. However, if anyone else can suggeest good dead-tree books that will help me, let me know.
Also, I’d like the Design Patterns book.
I’m over at my buddy Nate’s new condo, entering this from the comfort of his laundry closet. ;-) Nate’s condo is all wired up, and this machine is the router next to the panel where his Cox\@Home connection comes in, and it sits on a shelf in his laundry closet. Sweeeeet.
Here’s an interesting article from Discover Magazine about different voting schemes - very educational, especially in light of this year’s snafu’d election.
Wes Felter ponts us to xplanet, which puts an image of the earth on your Linux desktop. Cool? Not close - it also lets you rotate the globe, and update the cloud maps on the fly. Now that’s cool.
This sounds really cool: MindRover is a game in which you design robots, wiring them up in what amounts to a visual boolean logic programming environment, then they compete in 3D arenas against the computer.
The “MWSF Weblog” has become the home page of the new MWSF section of “Redmonk.Net”. Also, there’s a new template for the MWSF Weblog.
In a Sotheby’s online auction, this pastel-colored Apple logo is going for $10,000. Hmmmm, I can scrounge up $11k… sure I can!
The soundtrack from the movie Unbreakable is the sound of my life at this particular moment. It is filled with swelling, soaring Tim-Burton-esque strings fractured by nearly inaudible piano wanderings. String along again into thundering trip-hoppy walk-along beats. Flow.
If you’re going to MacWorld Expo SF, post a response here and perhaps we can set up a time to meet and greet. “Conversant” admins/users especially, though anyone’s welcome!
This afternoon I registered, along with Jodi, for the MacWorld Expo in San Fransisco. Wooooohooooo!!! I have always wanted to be at one of these events. So, Jan 9th through the 14th we’ll be on the left coast, checking out San Fransisco and all that’s new in the Mac Universe. ;-)
To document the trip, I’ve created a new MWSF 2001 section on the site, as well as a weblog, of course! In time, the MacWorld Expo section will get it’s own template, with links to interesting tidbits as I see fit.
If anyone is going to be at MW, post a response to this message, and let’s set up a time to meet and greet! All are welcome!
P.S. - I apologize, the weblog link is currently broken. Please be patient.
P.P.S. - Thanks to Flip from “Macrobyte”, my MWSF weblog is now fixed!
Welcome to “Redmonk.Net“‘s subsite for MacWorld Expo 2001!
Jodi and I decided today to head out to the MacWorld Expo in San Fransisco, January 9 - 12 at the Moscone Center.
This site will have a real home page soon, and a new template, and all kinds of other goodies. Maybe I’ll post MacWorld rumors, maybe I’ll start another weblog. Hey - now there’s an idea.
Yesterday, Pearl Harbor Day, the battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin was finally berthed in Norfolk, Va. I can’t wait to go down and see this amazing peice of history. If you can’t make it to Virginia, here are some links:
The Wisconsin is moved to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in preparation.
Pilot Online: The Wisconsin view from the air.
Pilot Online: Flash slideshow with audio of interviews with former sailors on the Winsconsin. Remembering what these people did for our country through World War 2, Korea, and other tours is what yesterday was about.
Pilot Online: “The Wisconsin, the last of the great battleships, bearer of some the most fearsome guns the Navy ever sent to sea, dreadnought, battlewagon, chunk of history, had arrived.”
Battleship Wisconsin - Armament, Main Gun Battery: “The range of the gun is 23 nautical miles, and the gun shell weighs approximately 2,500 pounds and requires 20 men to handle it.”
I have to say - this is one bad-ass piece of hardware.
“R.E.M.” lead singer Michael Stipe (on the right) “Thinking Different”
The Hubble Heritage Project has an amazing image gallery consisting of photographs taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. This is incredible.
My buddy “Jim” has his Edmunton Oilers weblog up-to-date again. If you’re a hockey fan, or any kind of sports fan, check out how this site is run - it’s an example of how REAL fans want to follow their teams.
Now.
So I’m waiting for Userland “Frontier” to recieve a database update, through it’s nifty “XML-RPC”-based update feature. Problem is, it’s been months since I updated this copy of Frontier, and the update is 10500K. Yikes! Frontier’s status message tells me that it’s receiving the data, but doesn’t tell me how far it’s along in the process.
Now, Userland has been working on a nifty extension to Frontier’s outliner called Radio Userland. Radio Userland does some cool tricks with outlines, and since this functionality is ostensibly being moved back up the chain into Frontier, there presents itself a possible solution:
Once that outlining magic is in Frontier, when I request updates, first send me an outline of all the new parts I’m going to get. Let me select which parts to get, then remove them from the outline as they’re imported. When the outline is empty, I’m up-to-date.
OK, now I’m blushing. A few weeks back I wrote a little tool for Radio Userland that takes a directory outline and outputs it in the format used by the Open Directory Project. Today I found DMOZDirectory linked from Radio Userland’s directory, in the Community Tools section. Thanks guys!
Not caring much for the excuse for main navigation I had on this site before, I’ve added the tabs at the top of the page. This is my first Tabbed Interface - do they work for you?
[via Greg] Watch out, Whoville - The Grinch is back, and he’s packing!
Now this would be fun for a Christmas LAN party.
And sets aside the November ruling by the Florida Supreme Court. The Florida court must now reconsider it’s previous decision.
I’ve been a graphic designer for years, and used Macromedia (previously Aldus) Freehand for may of those years. I used Adobe’s Illustrator before and during that time, and I consistently like Freehand better. But…
THIS is something I’ve been waiting for for years. And Adobe did it first. An outline-based layer system where you can explore the contents of grouped and subgrouped graphical elements. IT’S ABOUT TIME! Ok, Macromedia - your turn.
BTW - this is Freehand 9’s pathetic excuse for a Layers palette.
Jim points out that Radio Userland, once promised to be a free distribution, will actually have a moderate price once officially released.
“Eventually we will put a moderate price on Radio — to get our new community started, please give it a try and use it for free, with our appreciation.”
I’ve been looking at developing several Tools for Radio Userland, with the possibility of wide deployment at work. Don’t know how that’s going to play now…
I’m spending mine curled up with a B&W PowerMac G3, OSX, Apple’s developer tools, and a Vermont Cookbook. Yum!
Salon: Unchaining the Net - “Call it the ‘free-network movement’: Grass-roots hardware hackers are creating a wireless wonderland with megabits of connectivity for all.”
SeattleWireless is one of the free-wireless neighborhood communities.
This SO makes me want an AirPort base station.
