Coolest thing I’ve seen in a while – 10×10

I don’t recall where I snipped this quote from… “…having a coherent, interesting concept for a site is more important than having an organized site. Coherence of the ideas being communicated is not the same as coherence of presentation. Coherent thinking leads coherent presentation. Ideas are good, before they are organized. Readers are forgiving about superficial disorganization if the information is interesting enough to them.” …but it makes sense to me.

I’ve tossed together a simple page containing links that I run across and find nifty or somehow interesting. For now, it’s called Link Dump. If I keep it fresh it’ll stay. Otherwise I’ll pull the plug. And no, I don’t like the layout of it either. If everything had to be perfect right outta the box, nothing at all would ship.

A fella can only care deeply about a limited number of topics at any given time. I tend to jump around quite a lot when it comes to what I’m interested in, so I thought I’d take a snapshot of what interests (and doesn’t interest) me right now… Off the Radar CSS Tricks RSS Formats HTML Validation nitpicks Table-less layout Designing my weblog

Neato

Try the The Online Film Critics Society’s ‘Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s' I’ve seen quite a few of them and all deserve to be there. And here I thought I was the only person on earth who loved Cemetary Man (aka Dellamorte Dellamore)

Mr. Merlin over at 43Folders drops a lovely piece entitled Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make. Most of the mistakes apply to any type of site. A few short quotes below, but read the whole thing anyway… 1. Too much Flash “Okay, I get it. You’re creative. Awesome. But you’re totally wasting my morning…. Use Flash like you would cilantro–sparingly and for a single high-impact effect. Nobody wants to eat a whole bowl of cilantro, and nobody wants an animated death march when they have a “passionate taskâ€Â?

I was a little disappointed that the initial release of Delicious Library didn’t come with some sort of HTML export feature. I’m sure they’ll fix that soon, but until then, the Delicious Exporter will fit the bill well enough. I’ve got most of my movies and a few of my books imported, take a look at my library if you like. It’s, uh, delicious.

OpenLDAP is difficult, confusing and comes with lots and lots of incomprehensible documentation. Or at least that has been my experience with it. I’ve spent countless hours pouring over documentation, forums, weblogs and what have you trying to get a grip on this thing. I think I finally get it. It’s really not much different than heirarchy of unusually-named folders. It’s also quite groovy. It’s like having a lightweight database with easy replication and being able to store pretty much any collection of objects – users accounts, equipment, etc – all accessible via a popular and ubiquitous interface.

Thanks everybody, for everything. (There, that pretty much covers it)

And speaking of classic technology, I got a new (and my first) Moleskine today. Apparently it is pronounced mol-a-skeen'-a, so I think I’ll just refer to it as My Notebook from now on. I bought it instead of a PDA. It’s lighter, pocketable, more durable, faster to write in, and oh-so-much cooler. Can’t play Tetris on it though, as far as I can figure. Nothing like a dash of uber-cool beatnik elitism for keeping one’s grocery list!

I’m as much a techo-geek fanatic as the next guy, but it seems I keep falling back on old tech. I bought Jess a 50s era rotary telephone for her birthday. Why? Because holding the handset to your ear for hours is much more comfortable than with any fancy new 1Ultra-GHZ cordless phone. Also, you never accidently hang it up with your cheek, I can always find it, the battery never goes dead, and you can drop it from a 6-story building with no ill effects (assuming it doesn’t land on someone).