Decaflon

It seems like a great networking tool to me. I can chat with folks I respect, float ideas, even submit a link now and again.

Moo!

or

Microsoft!

portentint

I use Snapz Pro. It lets you capture stills and video, and does lots of other cool stuff.

XP. Vista is rapidly turning into Windows ME 2.0. It's a pig.

Mine was working great, until I installed Leopard. Now the power management seems wonky. Hopefully they'll fix that soon.

LIveCycle's just another remix of Adobe's Flash and Acrobat platforms. This one's tailored for organizations doing elaborate form-driven stuff, like banks or insurance companies.

The official buzzword/acronym, I believe, is Business Process Management, or BPM.

@creat1ve: What you're describing isn't computer dependency. It's rising stupidity, with computers used as an excuse.

Any reasonably intelligent person would've grabbed a piece of paper and taken your order. These were not reasonably intelligent people.

DOH. That worked.

@Kobold: you're my hero

Garrrrrr.

I am having an awful week for brain-keyboard disconnects

I MEANT 'when Google partnered with MySpace'...

BLASPHEMY! Burn them! Buuurn theeeemm......!!!!

Ahem.

I'm a sucker. I fell in love with Leopard the moment I saw it. It's just so dang purty. Time Machine looks slick. Finder, well, we'll see...

I tried to resist. I had to order it.

- Quicksilver
- iGTD
- Yojimbo
- Numbers
- Pages
- Textmate
- Keynote

If you do podcasts: Ubercaster

Another reason a site may be slow: Lousy HTML or XHTML code. It may execute nice and fast on the server side, but then it chokes your computer to death when your browser tries to display the page.

Often ignored, but HTML code bloat can slow a site down even more than slow server-side code. I've found lots of sites that are well-coded server side but slow folks' computers to a crawl.

Thanks hthth! That sounds like the reason.

Glad to know this has nothing to do with superheroes or aliens...

Didn't feel nervous (I actually dozed off for a moment).

My back was a mess, and I was very uncomfortable, and reasonably well drugged (hence the dozing off).

It felt VERY much like electro-stimulation of muscles, including the mild feeling of getting an electric shock. I'm fairly sure it wasn't in my head.

A friend who's a doctor theorized that aluminum in deodorant might've done it.

Likely it'll be one of those mysteries, until the aliens take me back and remove that damned implant.

A humungous chunk of ice will break off of Antarticta. It'll force sea levels up a few feet, effectively inundating coastal areas the world over. That'll force huge populations inland.

Then, in sheer aggravation, everyone on earth will jump up and down at exactly the same moment, and the planet will explode.

I expect this to happen in the next day or so.

Bugzilla isn't bad....

That is very cool. I knew it had jet engines. I didn't realize it could take off from a runway, without an assist.

Take a look at Ektron. It's flexible enough to let you build standards-compliant templates.

Does point out something: She got into terminal.

All the security that prevents us from carrying water, juice, toothpaste, nail clippers, etc. onto the planes does ZERO good if a suicide bomber just decides to detonate themselves in a check-in line.

She's also pretty lucky she didn't get shot. She was probably one real terror threat away...

Get MacBook Pro, and get a good external monitor. I've never regretted that choice...

Initially I thought it'd let me aggregate comments ABOUT a particular site or blog. The truth is that the stuff I've built scraping Google Blog search and such works a lot better.

K I can answer my own question now. I got it set up, and it's no great shakes. Buggy as hell, and in the end just a really basic feed consumption tool...

twitter.com/portentint

Tiddlywiki sounds like it'll do what you want. I know folks have used it for exactly what you're doing.

TiddlyWiki Web Site

It's easy to use, works on your desktop or over the web, etc..

Another thing to consider: If your site needs to have search visibility, overuse of AJAX may hide a lot of the content the search engines would spider. Search spiders can't execute javascript.

It's a pain. It's also the reality.

No hate - it's the same for ColdFusion.

These are great platforms. They're quiet because they WORK. See, that's why .NET gets so much coverage...

*Ready for more hate...

Coldfusion is still a great dev environment. It costs money for the server, and Ruby on Rails is very hot right now. But we still build a lot of sites in CF and get great results.

I started with BASIC and LOGO (I'm not going to tell you my age, but let's just say I'm old).

Taught myself other languages as needed. Listened and asked for advice on several forums and e-mail communities.

Sounds to me like you're well on your way.