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.
Hey, look what I found
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.
Wow neat, this comment on the AMD Opteron story at /. has some links to an AMD Powerpoint presentation (‘AMD-Opteron.ppt’) which has lots of interesting information.
McGraw Hill contacted me recently about a college writing book that I had contributed some essays towards a few years back. Apparently, it’s actually going to be published and they needed a picture of me. I looked through my archives and dug out a few from around when I was working on the book. The other night, I also went over to Jaime to take some more headshot-y pictures. Here’s they are. Oh, here are two outtakes.
The past few days I’ve been rejiggering my LAN in my spare (ha!) time. My primary NAT/file server box is now running Gentoo Linux on ReiserFS (except for grub, which apparently breaks on ReiserFS 3.6. that was but one of those fun little discoveries I had along the way). My theory about Gentoo is that it’s become really popular because there’s something about compiling your whole system from scratch that’s just plain satisfying. It’s like the old days, except slightly better documented. I’m definitely digging the Portage package system. It has the best things that I liked about Debian: you know everything installed on your system, easy-breezy updating, merging/unmerging that actually works, and, as a bonus, the packages are much more current than Debian’s. The only slight pain is having to manually do all the config/rc-updating manually after install, but then again, it doesn’t butter my toast either.
Ernie’s reliving the pain that everyone goes through when they decide to go ‘fully standards compliant’ – the problem with this being of course, there are no browsers that are. Personally, I think css filtering (like Tantek’s high pass) is for the birds. If you’re gonna hack to browsers, then go all the way. phpsniff is your friend.
I noticed that Larry’s presentation is on the syllabus of at least 3 classes. free culture is homework. Cool.
- UC Irvine, Writing 139 (37 ref)
- University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, TNMA 300/500, Creativity in the Arts (29 ref)
- George Mason University, NCLC375/ENGL360, Textual Media (23 ref)
These classes look sorta fun. More interesting than anything in the similar vein that were offered at USC.
Rafe unveils his own XHTML 1.0 (strict, no less) compliant site redesign. Predictable results on the hiptop ensue. Ok Ernie, your turn.