Kanedaaaaaa!

Tetsuooooooo!

Ahem. I just had to get that out of my system. Re: Ellen Feissukikuchi.

Blogger’s hack attack made /.

I’ve been rather out of the loop the past few weeks, buried in development. Congrats to Andy. Uzilla.net 1.0 came out (more than a week ago. I am out of it).

Related

• Uzilla: the Blog – wow, good stuff, must somehow make time to read this. hmm, not sleeping sounds like the only option… but I’m going to be doing that anyway tonight.
• Net Usability – tools
• NIST Web Metrics
• WebQuilt – from the same group that made DENIM, lots of cool projects here
• Lucidity (OSS)
• UsableNet
• ClickTracks
• ergoBrowser
• Developing Usability Tools and Techniques for Designing and Testing Web Sites
• IBM Ease of Use
• WET – Web Event-logging Tool?

Other web related stuff: jz under d^Hreconstruction, tantek log – neat, USC is hosting the Fall 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting (there will be some live netcasts here), Brandon on superworms, from a while ago but so I don’t lose it: youngpup on popup windows

A while back I enabled the BloggerPro RSS feed. I don’t think I mentioned that. Also, I wrote an IMAPblogger daemon. I should package that up sometime soon, but I’ve been ridiculously busy.

Sometimes I don’t know if this whole job thing is worth it. I think soon I’m going to get serious about the whole sticking to 40 hours (or the official 37.5 hours) a week. For the past year (well, about 1 month until the big 1.0) that I’ve been working here, there’s been continual deadline pressures [it’s like a constant low-level crunch-time, and I’ve barely had any chance to work on anything vaguely interesting, much less any of the fun stuff that I was originally excited about. Add to the fact that it seems that the longer I’m here, the more I notice the continual political and bureaucratic dysfunctionality going on. On the other hand, this is paying my student loans…

Hey, looks like I missed out on the good fun Anil’s been having. I never really read LGF to begin with (and I stopped following mefi a while back), so I had no idea how far LGF had gone astray until Ernie mentioned it when I was up north the other month. Apparently, the ‘marshalling of the troops’ (to spam the comments boards of people who criticized or disagreed with LGF) is standard operating procedure for the post-9/11 LGF. And to think, he used to be one of us.

NYTimes: For Richer – it’s 11 pages, or for a quick summary, just take a look at some charts.

I’ve been using vim as my editor of choice for a while now, but only recently have I decided to go ‘hardcore’, really customizing my .vimrc and trying to learn vim inside out. Here’s a great function that does html tag closing for vim. Very neat.

Hey, Mitch Kapor (yes, that Mitch Kapor) has a new blog. This coincides with the announcement of the new initiative that he’s working on, called the Open Source Applications Foundation. The first project their going to tackle is apparently to create a rethought (read: not Outlook clone) open-source/cross-platform PIM.

/. has a post/discussion going on, after the Mercury News gave it a writeup.

*update* – ahh, here’s the current feature list.

Personally, I have hight hopes for this thing. I’ve even joined the mailing list and see what’s going on. I’m sure everyone has their own ideas about what would make a successful PIM. I think that their on the right track, recognizing that data capture is probably the biggest limiter of successful ‘management’. I also like the idea of having this sort of dynamic intertwingular type of thing. I also wonder if the OSAF has take a look at what projects like ZOË have being doing.

For me, the one biggest must have feature would probably be to allow my data to be shared/sync’d seamlessly across multiple resources. On the web, from multiple client machines/PDAs, and available as feeds for use by other people’s calendars, etc. It sounds like from Mitch’s initial post on the subject that it will be doing it, but will initially be serverless – I’m assuming there’ll be some P2P action going on, and see no reason why one couldn’t rip out the client/gui code and make some of the nodes run effectively as server/relay daemons.

I’ve been doing some work on organizing my files/juggling around storage (finally got around to reconfiguring a file server – the cow is right, Gentoo is frickin awesome), and have been moving stuff around I have about 300GB of hard drive space, and about 100GB of online files that need to be consolidated and cleaned up – I have my work cut out for me. (Document management is a bitch.)

Of course one of the great things about digging around old files is finding ‘old crap.’ Here’s something cool. A scan from a picture from June 1997:

(Probably not of interest to most except in that voyueristic way) This picture was from the NHS induction ceremony. Left-to-Right: me, Jessica Sealander, Megan Stone, Michael Refkofsky, Melanie Brooks, and David Syzdek. (No, I haven’t seen, much less talked to any of those people in at least 4 or 5 years, but these guys need all the googlejuice they can get)

* update * – Ooh, fun. I found the Bunnell High School website, which apparently hasn’t been updated since 1999. It has most of the club pictures from the ’98 yearbook. The people pictured above are all in this picture. Well, except for me. I was in warmer climes that year.

There’s weird, and then there’s weird: Modesto woman accused of biting husband after he refused sex

MIT’s Department of Architecture Design and Computation group runs an interesting little collaborative space called i+a where links are posted up. Definitely some cool stuff links, like:

• Opera’s Small-Screen Rendering – how does it do CSS, and is there an emulator is what I want to know
• Defining Digital Space Through Visual Language – SMArchS Thesis, MIT June 2000
• Architects Design in Cyberspace and Real Space for the NYSE – The Architecture of Cyberspace, August 1999
• HistoryWired: a few of our favorite things – very cool Smithsonian Java Applet – think SmartMoney’s market map except with things, not stocks.