I'm sitting at Gate C25 at the Calgary Airport, waiting for the flight to San Francisco. Evan and Janice came to the airport as well, as a dry-run for our trip next week. Evan loved the airport. The hardest part will be reigning him in, since he wants to go exploring everything.

This was the fastest security checkin I've ever experienced. I planned on an hour to get through security, prior to boarding time. It took maybe 5 minutes, from customs declaration/eval to security clearance, to sitting at the gate typing this. The place was deserted. One other couple was passing through.

It seems as though everyone's all in a huff over the "news" article posted on cnet.news.news.com.com.com, which suggests that the WWDC Stevenote may reveal a switch from IBM/Power-based CPUs to Intel-based CPUs. That's a load of hooey. Apple's been publicly crapping on Intel's CPUs in all of its presentations, marketing, website info for the last several years.

Megahertz Myth? Pipelines? Etc... Apple's been talking some serious trash about Intel. I'm not a CPU-head, so I wouldn't know one way or another. But, for Apple to suddenly pull up stakes and say "Wait, we were wrong all along - Power sucks, and Intel rocks. We're going to transition the whole product line over to the Pentium line." Sorry. Doesn't make sense.

I was going to blog this yesterday after our staff meeting, but, well, got kind of swamped getting Mavericks ready for authoring while I'm away. Now Rick's Cafe has beaten me to the punch...

Anyway, we have a job opening for a full-time permanent Instructional Designer at the Learning Commons. Details are on the HR posting page.

We're going to be doing some really cool things in the LC in the coming months/years, and the person in this position would get to play on both the teaching-and-learning and software-development sides of things.

I'll be out of the office for the next 3+ weeks - should be back on June 28 if all goes well. I tried to change my voicemail message today to warn people that I won't be able to check messages for a while, but couldn't remember how to change the silly message. I should be more embarrassed about that than I am - I hate using the phone to begin with, and there are better/more efficient ways to get in touch with me.

I was interviewed for a segment on podcasting in GlobalTV's TKO. More info about the segment is in another post.

I asked the producer of my podcasting segment if I could distribute a digital version of the clip. She said that wouldn't be possible (which is fine), but then offered to host the clip on their website.

So... Head on over to TechnicalKnockout.tv to check out the clip in all of its 2-minute-long glory. And they made me do the walking-with-iPod thing. I swear :-)

I just used Blogdigger.com to create a new group for ADCE - which includes a combined RSS feed for all ADCE blogs. It takes each individual RSS feed, monitors them for changes, and spits out a single feed that can be easily subscribed or shared.

It's pulling previous entries, so it should be a usable RSS feed now (it was empty until Blogdigger spidered the feeds, of course).

Planet ADCE

Perfect! The WWDC Blogger's gathering and WebObjects Pub Night overlap, at the same place! Yay, synergy!

bbum's blog-o-mat: WebObjects Pub Night @ WWDC 2005

I guess that means I'll be able to hit both events!

Update: - well, the registration for the blogger's gathering is closed (it's a catered event, and they needed payment etc...), and the WO gathering has moved to the Chieftain Irish Pub. Looks like I may wind up at the Chieftain, or take the evening to stroll SoMA (or head to the waterfront?).

Battlestar Galactica Season 2 is coming, and much sooner than I was thinking! It looks like it's starting July 15 in the States! This is going to be good...

Season 1 was probably the best scifi ever made (it's definitely the best TV scifi, and probably in the top 10 best scifi of all time - movies and TV!)

Alan's talking about his Blog-Ha Moment - when blogging "clicked" for him, and suddenly became part of what he did every day.

For me, I started dabbling with blogging after the dot-com eLearning company I was working for self destructed at The End of The Internet Bubble, in March 2001. I needed something to distract my mind from litigation, corporate cornholing, and other business-related evilness.

So I started poking around with Blosxom. I wanted to pick up a bit of Perl, and wanted to start a journal. Yes, my first blog was a lame-assed "it sure is hot today" personal journal. There's a reason why the online archives of my blog don't go back to the beginning... actually, I remembered this wrong... I started with MacJournal, in an offline journal, while poking around with the source for Blosxom to see what good Perl code looked like. The two things didn't meet for a few months...

Someone on the WebObjects-Dev list, known only as "LD" just posted a tip about getting CodeSense completion working in XCode2 for WebObjects code. I took his tip and wrote an easy-peasy shell script that got the job done on my 2 machines.

If you need to enable CodeSense completion for WO, just grab a copy of this script, and run it in Terminal.

$ ./xcode_webobjects_codesense

You may first need to chmod +x xcode_webobjects_codesense first, to get it executable, but that's about all.

I just took a few minutes to tweak the UI of Planet ADCE, to better match the rest of the ADCE blog layout.

I also hacked in a simple ADCE blog search, using Google. And I added links to the public blogs, so you don't have to go rooting around for them. I'm toying with the idea of exposing a combined RSS feed, but haven't gotten around to that yet.

If there's anyone at Apple reading this, I'd be more than happy to ship what I've got so it can live on the edcommunity server...

I'm trying a bit of an experiment here... I just installed a (slightly hacked/cleaned-up) copy of Feed on Feeds to aggregate all of the Apple Digital Campus Exchange weblogs via their exposed RSS feeds. I'm hoping this gets replaced by a "real" solution hosted by Apple, but in the meantime...

Planet ADCE: Latest Posts on Apple Digital Campus Exchange Weblogs

It's not pretty - I didn't have time/energy to make it much better than the stock layout. And the order of the old posts is funky due to the way Feed on Feeds sucks in posts - they're stamped with the cache date rather than the post date - so all existing posts got essentially the same cache date and they show up in unpredictable order. This will be sorted out with the new posts, which will be automatically cached every hour.