In other news last Thursday something in the server room at work caught fire. Everyone at work is fine, but they’re still in the process of rebuilding our server environments and getting the network reconfigured. It sure keeps things interesting though.

Point being: head over to WeAreTheWeb.org and get yourself involved.

When Alex showed me a write-up of Aptana (because he knows I’m a compulsive experimenter in these kinds of things) I initially balked at it for just being Eclipse with a different icon. But this morning I actually installed it and have been giving it a shot and it seems to be a little more like the “doesn’t include all the Eclipse stuff you’ll never use” editor that sort of fits my needs so far. My only real complaint has been that I had to hack around a bit to get some of the EasyEclipse language support plugins installed. (They only like to install into a directory with an eclipse.exe file in it, but with aptana there is no eclipse.exe, there’s just aptana.exe. so I made a copy and renamed it to eclipse.exe and that worked peachy.)

You can head over here to get a copy for yourself, and they even have a nice little collection of screencasts to help folks get started too.

Chris: web 3.0 will come when someone releases a browser that bounces you between myspace and wikipedia and nowhere else.

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GET OUT YOUR 2007 CALENDAR

While this year’s SXSW is still fresh in your mind clear a space on your calendar for SXSW 2007. Here are the dates for next year’s conferences and festivals:

Music: Wednesday, March 14 - Sunday, March 18, 2007

Film: Friday, March 9 - Saturday, March 17, 2007

Interactive: Friday, March 9 - Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Registrations and hotel reservations will be accepted beginning about August 2006. Join our email listservs and watch this space for the exact dates.

This time I expect everyone to be in attendance. (ahem, ahem, ahem.)

Anyway, a while back I unveiled the new version of my bookmarks database (you can see it in action over here) and this morning I got an email from Daniel in Berlin asking if I could share a copy of the code. So, without further ado the code is here (10k ZIP file).

I’d like to think most of the code is fairly self-explanatory. It done in PHP (and the proxy.php file currently uses CURL because fopen() for remote URLs is disabled on my host), all the JS is done in jQuery. It’s still under the CC By Attribution/Non-Commercial/Share-Alike license, so do with it what you will as long as you stick with those guidelines.

(The activity.gif file was generated using AJAXload.info’s system, so if you want to swap it to something else that’s a good start.)

On Monday May 15th, I went up to Portland, Oregon to work on a freelance project. On Wednesday, I was getting ready for bed when all of a sudden I had intense pain in my left side and I collapsed to the floor. I thought it was a cramp so I lay on the floor for awhile hoping the pain would go away. When it became clear the pain wasn’t going away, I woke up my friend Mitch (who I was staying with) and told him something was wrong.

Joe Kral Needs Help

My name is Patrick. Sometime during the fall of 2004, I noticed an involuntary shaking in my legs. For a long time the exact cause eluded definition.

On May 24th, 2005, however, I was officially diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease), a terminal disease that results in the progressive degeneration of the nerves and muscles responsible for voluntary movement. It is a fatal and incurable disease. I was 30 years old.

So go check out a couple of his clips and do what you can to help out: Patrick O’Brien Foundation

In any case go forth and take a look (and see if you can notice the differences).

Seems some folks who put together a list of “favorite vlogs” for wired decided that a site titled “Boring But Short” wasn’t enough of a warning.

Boring But Short
boringbutshort.com
The “boring” part is right, but at 10 seconds, these clips are 9.5 seconds too long. They should change the URL to boringbutnotshortenough.com.

Update: If any of you have the May print edition of Wired (the one with Al Gore on the cover) it’s on page 132. I have a horrible cameraphone pic of it over on flickr.

Update: BoringButNotShortEnough.com

Update: (yes, another) Chris has posted a far better image than mine of the wired print piece on flickr.

What I thought was really interesting though was seeing Kottke’s work with a “con” description of “The design of the sites is boring.”

Update: Looks like I’ve made it to more than one student in the course’s list: On the home page, the large buttons didn’t blend well with the rest of the page content..

On March 31st I gave my notice at my previous job. About a week after one of the other 2 web designers had left, and the day after they told one of the best haXX0rs I’ve known they were letting him go. So I gave my notice and let the 12th be my last day as a little birthday present to myself and got to leave that job on my 30th birthday, then meet my dad, step-mother, grandfather and Andrea for a nice dinner. Took a couple days off to hack around with a bit of stuff (added some new stuff to Ekwipment, but it’s still not done yet), then Andrea got a room for us in Atlantic City so we went up there and blew a bunch of money and had a great time (pics on flickr). So today was my first day on a new gig, good team, good environment. Shows great promise.

How big is your development team? Anything special you’d like to say about them?
All development is done by me with the exception of some custom PHP apps that were built by my good friend Michael Raichelson.

Though apparently I’m just not good enough to warrant an actual link.