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Today I’m looking to do something I never thought I would do, and am fairly certain that I’m risking hell-fire: I’m looking to install Microsft Visual Basic on my pc. The situation at work has gotten to the point where we are likely to be billed out as M$ platform web developers, so my only chance at survival is to see if there’s a way to implement some time-tested ideas in a new (shudder) environment.

If anyone out there knows of an ASP or COM (preferably COM) based template system, please let me know.

BTW - by templating I mean a WebMacro-style macro-processing engine.

Phil Suh on the Camworld CMS list -

“And that’s what good content management systems do: eliminate tedious repetitive work, prevent human error, and allow content authors to concentrate on their writing, and not on the technical tasks involved in publishing.”

REM has a photo of the artwork for the new album REVEAL on their site.

This is great - it’s classic REM style (art directed by Micheal Stipe) - UP-ish lettering, country landscape, and shadow of Michael-with-camera. (Can any serious REM fan tell me that’s NOT what we’re seeing? Think “Document”.)

From a USAToday article on R.E.M.’s new album REVEAL, U2’s Bono:

“Their new album is extraordinary,” he says. “I know it’s extraordinary because I felt ill when I heard it. It’s a very beautiful, awe-inspiring record. R.E.M. is a force.”

More pics of my new home:

this is me in my new cube. actually, i share a double-wide with my buddy hans.

things I’m working on right now:

learning webobjects.
writing a java library that wraps a java object model around Conversant’s xml-rpc interface.
settling into my new digs at the corporate headqtrs.