Ran into Branden Hall’s [Flash remoting tester]1 on the amfphp list. Now if I can just find time to test the PHP remoting stuff, I might be able to use it.

Mary just reminded me that if it had been up to online dating services, we would never have met. We were both experimenting with Match.com at the same time (yes, it’s true), but were never recommended to each other by the site’s “recommendation engine”. Sure seems like we should’ve been. Oh well, thankfully mutual friends use a better algorithm.

Not a lot of information yet on the new Macromedia tool, Royale. I’ve seen it described as a Flash development environment designed for programmers. How’s this and Laszlo going to coexist?

I’ve had Cygwin installed on my laptop for a couple months now, but I’ve only recently begun using it. It all started with discovering that rxvt can be used as a terminal, replacing the god-awful DOS-like window that is the default. I’m now running VIM, rsync, mutt, SSH and more right here on my Windows machine. It’s cool, and it helps alleviate some of the TiBook envy I’ve been experiencing ever since Steve and

Originally, I was only going to post “important” development or net-related topics around here. That hasn’t exactly panned out, since I seem to put just about anything I feel like up here lately. So, instead of feeling guilty about it, I’ve decided that anything goes. Follow along if you like.

I pay a great deal of attention to punctuation, and abuse it in nearly every sentence that I write. This essay by Paul Robinson sounds like something I’d write, if I actually knew what the hell I was talking about.

The Poetry of Programming “Writing software should be treated as a creative activity. Just think about it—the software that’s interesting to make is software that hasn’t been made before. Most other engineering disciplines are about building things that have been built before. People say, “Well, how come we can’t build software the way we build bridges?” The answer is that we’ve been building bridges for thousands of years, and while we can make incremental improvements to bridges, the fact is that every bridge is like some other bridge that’s been built.

According to a terrifically complicated mathematical formula, the sexiest sentence alive is “My breast flipped inside out so my nipple touched my heart.” Not bad, but some of the other submissions are a lot of fun also. I have two favorites… ”…For an hour we wake and doze, and slowly I know that though we are sated, though we are hardly touching, this is the coming the other brought us to the edge of — we are entering, deeper and deeper, gaze by gaze, this place beyond the other places, beyond the body itself…”

The Web is dying. I remember, it was sometime in 1996, when every single thing I did on or for the Web was cool, new, and different. I was learning to program for web servers. Hooking them up to databases even before it was popular. I never slept – fearing I would miss something. Front row seats at the Revolution. Friends and coworkers were learning to create beauty within the confines of a browser.

Do me a favor, when replying to an email or forum post or whatever, don’t begin the response with “Um…” It’s the most effective way to adopt a condescending tone in an electronic message and it’s horribly annoying. Thanks.

Can a person’s gag reflex be surgically removed? I’d need that to happen before I could do this

So, in keeping with my policy of messing with things that are working fine, we’re now running the site using Blosxom. Why? Well because its design philosophy matches the tool and its purpose. A simple, filesystem-based blogging tool in one small perl script easily portable to any operating system. I love Movable Type, but it was overkill in many cases, and installing it was way too much work. And I typically like that sort of thing.