congratulations to everyone at the jabber.org for announcing that there are, “…nearly 10 million end users of software based on the open Jabber/XMPP protocol.”. there are, of course, some guestimates in the numbers, but all things considered it’s a remarkable accomplishment.

i’m also happy to have discovered that the os x “nitro” jabber client is a lot more stable than the last time i tried it, or at least the development build i’m running is solid. although i like proteus because it’s an “integrated” client for those times that i have to use other IM systems, its jabber client implementation is buggy and loses connections to the server.

upcoming

sure is

attracting

enough

positive

attention

to virtually guarantee

widespread and rapid percolation

in the blogosphere. whether or not this is a good thing, i suppose
depends on how good the rumoured moderation system will be at
keeping the impending
flood of
craptastic events at bay

. it’ll be interesting to see how well things scale as the
number of venues and
events fills out

.

scraping, priming and painting the outside of your house is not a fun way to spend the last weekends before the coldness of fall sets in. no sirreee.

buried in the snarky

“Eulogy for the Trucker Hat” is the following gem:

“I guess I’m saying that your piece was about the wrong
thing. Why the need? Why the need to have to go around knocking the
wind out of everyone? That’s the Willamsburg/Austin/No Ho thing to
do. Not the wearing of the Trucker Hat, but the being faux angry at
the proliferation of the Trukcer Hat. To be above the Trucker Hat.
I agree with Stephen King, why is everyone so insecure in New York
about their intelligence? Why does everyone in Brooklyn have to
remind you of how they’ve seen it all before, to recognize a trend,
discover it’s fiber, and then bray loudly that it’s
over.”

in my screed on ipods and marathons, i hope i didn’t unintentionally leave anyone thinking i thought they thought i was dumb 🙂

“Beyond The Template Engine” is a nice little bit on templates that focuses mainly on smarty and contains the following bit of wisdom that most template zealots seem to forget:

“And remember: the point of template engines should be to separate your business logic from your presentation logic, not to separate your PHP code from your HTML code.”

[ via dangerousmeta ]

it’s hard to believe that five years ago kris and i were standing on a breezy lakeshore in wisconsin saying our wedding vows. even harder to imagine is the fact that you need to add roughly seven years on to the five to get the total number of years we’ve been in a relationship. how that time it does fly by. i’ve loved every minute of it.

amusingly, we bought a bottle of wine for our five year anniversary and a bottle for our ten and neither of us can remember which is which. we both suspect it might be the 1995 stags’ leap cabernet, but we’re not positive. hi. ho.

here’s to many, many more anniversaries.