Hello, still alive. Been busy, first out of the country, then launching a redesign of a Web site. We’ve got some tweaking to do this week, but it’s live now. I’l link to it when the tweaking is done.

eeesh, Neglecting my site duties horribly.

eeesh, Neglecting my site duties horribly.

Considering everything that I could have done this weekend, I got a lot done around the house. There is a really spiritually and emotionally rewarding feeling after baking some cookies or cleaning up a room.

Considering everything that I could have done this weekend, I got a lot done around the house. There is a really spiritually and emotionally rewarding feeling after baking some cookies or cleaning up a room.

Anil Dash: Six Apart buys a fax machine

I’ve been thinking about Konfabulator this weekend a bit. It uses the Spidermonkey Javascript runtime from the Mozilla project as it’s core. I think it’s worth noting that we are seeing more and more fruits of open source code on the Mac OS X platform all the time now. Open Source seems to be enabling innovation, and writing something like Konfabulator from scratch would proabably have been a much more daunting task without the ability to embed the Javascript runtime. I seem to be seeing people note on a regular basis that Mac OS X is the best platform for innovation by independent developers now, and open source code is one big reason for that.

Google Buys Pyra. Woah.

Sorry about the lack of updates this week. The port that my admin tool is running on is blocked at my new office, and I haven’t had time to reconfigure things so that I can get to it. Lots going on offiline, I really feel like I’ve gotten myself off to a fresh start this year thus far, although I still need to work a bit more on those pesky resolutions.

I walked in on the tail end of this conversation last night while out at a charity kickoff for Kate’s Club. It’s an organization that I think I’m going to get involved in in some capacity. Moral of the story is that most people do not like to be told they look like elves.

Today is my last day.

Radiohead Optimistic About Sixth Album

Using and Managing Fonts in Mac OS X

Mark Richards, who I work with, just selected a plain bagel for his breakfast.

Jeremy Allaire is leaving Macromedia.

I’m having an interesting week so far, not free of stress by any means. Over the weekend, I played paintball for the third time in as many months. It’s an addictive adrenaline rush, and has left me wondering why it hasn’t taken off more than it has. I followed that up with a softball practice on Monday for the team I joined for this spring, “Team Bad Guy.” So I’ve been a bit sore the last couple of days, these sports use different muscles than my normal gym workouts. Aside from that, lots of house maintenance tasks this week, and a lot of worrying about finishing tasks properly at my current position before moving on to the new one on Monday.

Ok, so maybe this Darrin guy isn’t quite as bad as I am making him out to be. In other news, I took a new contracting assignment today relaunching a site for a major sports media organization. Exciting stuff, new technology, and a great team from the looks of things. I wish I could tell you more, but you know the drill. This is making it increasingly difficult to concentrate on the stored procedures and cfml code that I am currently working on. Next week is going to be a very long week.

There is this guy I work with named Darrin, I really don’t care for him.

I’ve been under the weather the last couple of days, missed a day and half of work with some sort of stomach/flu bug. I did get to do a lot of reading yesterday, and I read Jennifer Government from cover to cover in addition to finishing up a couple of other books that I have been working on. I enjoyed Jennifer Government’s tone and story, and I liked the commentary on one possible future that the book made. I’d recommend it to people who enjoy dark cyberpunk type material.

Without a doubt, this was my favorite commercial during last night’s big game. I enjoyed the game, even if it wasn’t as close as everyone thought it was going to be. I think that the Buc’s defense established themselves as one of the greatest defenses of all time last night, although they should have already had that distinction after the last four years. I also think that it was clear that Grudin outcoached his former assistant, and that the deal that brought him to Tampa was a worthwhile one.