Holy crap, Managed.com has cheap servers (mixed reports on WHT, but they apparently are supposed to be getting better, getting better peering; summary: decent network, near non-existent support; about what you’d expect for the price)

Apparently something that came out of New York, but seems like it’d be a perfect match in LA.

Movieoke – A form of entertainment in which a person acts out scenes from a movie while a silent version of the movie plays in the background.

This looks to be a very promising collaborative workgroup tool. Allows instantiation of multiple projects/subprojects w/ their own membership. Channel replication/dataflow push that looks fairly unique… also, standard file repos, forums, issue tracking, wiki, membership options. (Java App, runs on JOnAS, an open source J2EE application server.

LibreSource is an open free software platform that aims at hosting virtual teams and distributed communities for a large range of activities, including co-authoring, co-development and co-engineering activities, for a large spectrum of software and non-software applications. It wants to become an important structuring elements of the free software community, for both industrial and academic actors.

Why Java is retarded: changing a regex in SnipSnap’s Radeox engine involves digging into the jar file, making the changes, and then reloading the entire application. That’s really just not very convenient. Am I missing something? Is it acceptable for that much downtime for seemingly trivial changes?

• Snipsnap-help – some of the syntax is quite annoying. And how does one make HR’s?
• Source Code Formatter Tutorial
• HTML 2 SnipSnap – good idea

• System Administration Guide: Security Services – see BSM overview, managing BSM Service
• FOCUS on Sun: Solaris BSM Auditing
• Using IP Filter to Protect a Solaris 7, 8, or 9 Workstation

Taking the President Match quiz shows myself (of the remaining candidates) most closely aligned w/ Kucinich at 85%. Kerry doesn’t do too bad at 81%, however. By comparison, Bush matches 4%.

I finally got around to trying out RE_INVIGORATE, a free real-time stats tracker that does some neat views (the time zone display is pretty nice). No slicing and dicing, but good fun. It’s interesting comparing the interface to something like Sawmill (horribly ugly and baroque, but extremly powerful – alas, single-threaded, no real-time support).

Expression Engine came up in passing at a lunch meeting today. There are some really great ideas in there… The data modeling sounds killer (back in 2000 I began working on a KM tool w/ similar capabilities; that was interrupted by development of a vortal). I’m interested in seeing the caching and also a few of the security features. It seems that they’ve taken a lot of good techniques out there and put it all together in a unique way. It may be worth paying $199 just to look at how the internals are assembled.

I’ve been enjoying RE_INVIGORATE, it’s been fun. I’m tempted to throw it on the USC homepage just to see. It’d only increase load on the DAS system by about 20% or so? 🙂

In all seriousness, I’ll be following up w/ Omniture’s SiteCatalyst… (although $20K/yr is a large chunk of change. There has to be something better; perhaps running Sawmill for analytics and licensing DAS for realtime feedback might be an option)

Two people I chatted w/ in the shoutbox sidebar:

• Concept4.ca – photolog of an Ottowan Civil Engineering Student
• PassiveDigressive – blog of Chris Vincent

• My MySQL Talks at OSCON 2004 – Jeremy Zawodny posts his talk abstracts
• social networks: the glue for next-generation internet applications
• Relationship-Based Computing – Stewart’s ETCON 2004 pres
• The Truth For Youth
• Cheap Cologne presents Jay-Z vs. Metallica “The Double Black Album”
• typographic illustration
• subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale