What a great long weekend. I’m getting lots of stuff done, and spent three hours yesterday reliving my youth playing Risk with two of my work friends. I saw The Patriot, which I thought was mediocre, and The Perfect Storm, which I thought was mediocre. Both were a little too Hollywood for my tastes, and I thought the first was very much a slightly altered version of Braveheart set in the American colonies during the war for independence. I hope your weekend is going as well as mine. Now I’m off to configrue my home entertainment center(this is a monster job with 9 components).

Macintouch has a PC Expo 2000: Palm, Handheld and Wireless Computing Special Report. It includes a picture of the early Sony handheld prototype and some interesting notes on Bluetooth.

Sticking with the latest trends CNET launches a new Wireless section.

‘HTTP on steroids’ headed our way. What is BXXP? I’m going to do some looking around on this right now.

My Caffeine Sampler from ThinkGeek.com arrived this afternoon. It’s a scary amount of caffeine type beverages. I’m surprised the box didn’t explode or slowly vibrate across the floor.

MacWEEK: Sony to preview Palm handheld at PC Expo. It sounds more and more like Palm has no intention of being anything more than a operating system licenser. They haven’t come out with anything that really breaks the mold of the original Palm product. They’ve added color, more memory, and a faster processor plus wireless access, but the device has remained pretty much the same. I’m real interested in this Sony version, especially if I can stick a 128 Mb Memory Stick in it.

Mac Internet Explorer 5.5: The Leaked Details

I’m playing beach volleyball in a league every Monday night, except I’m not really getting to play. Last week we were cancelled because they misplaced the nets, and this week they couldn’t get the lights to work. Maybe they’ll get their act together when we play in two weeks.

There’s also a weblog to track the carbonization of Frontier.

Userland releases Frontier 6.2 and thanks me in the process! I don’t really feel like I deserve their thanks with my crazy life taking me away from being as involved as I would like. 6.2 introduces a bunch of great new features including localization. Congrats to Dave, Brent, Robert and Andre on this accomplishment.

New to my daily visit list: K I I R O I

The Real World Blows does a good job of summing up my feelings about the show which features a bunch of disfunctional people living in an MTV constructed fantasyland. Of course, it’s like a car wreck and I can’t look away. (Found at the ever entertaining weblog wannabe)

Project Cool’s XML Concepts article gives an excellent high level overview of the language and surrounding concepts. WebReview does them one better with their excellent Taming the XML Beast. Read them both.

Today’s soundtrack courtesy of the Jurrasic 5. Their new cd, Quality Control, is absolutely what I needed in a hip hop record right now. It’s truer to the hip hop aesthetic than anything that has come out in a really really long time. I highly recommend it.

I watched American Movie last night. Entertaining and brilliant. Depressing and pathetic. You take your choice. Worth a viewing either way.

This is my Web site. Where I can put stuff I want others to see online. You can call it whatever you want as far as I’m concerned because I’m still going to put up whatever I want.

Dave announced today that Userland is carbonizing Frontier. I’m so very happy to hear this. As I begin to do more and more work with XML, I think Frontier is going to become an essential tool in my toolbox.

How did I not know about the fact that there is a Final Fantasy movie coming out next year? Boy, am I slipping. The site has some very short trailer material on it that looks really good even in a tiny Quicktime window.

I want to elaborate on the comments below about the Bungie acquisition. This is not a good thing for consumers. I just read the FAQ that Bungie has posted on their site, and it is quite clear that this means that, in order to get access to future Bungie titles, possibly including the much anticipated HALO, you will have to buy an XBox from Microsoft. It’s all about lock in and other ugly things, and I’m sure that the owners of Bungie got the compensation that they deserved in the deal.(They have done some amazing work over the last seven years.) Microsoft is buying them to create a barrier of entry for their new console, and for no other reason.

As a long time user of great games like Marathon, Myth, and Myth II, I am saddened by the acquisition of Bungie by Microsoft.