A stream of thoughtsciousness
My name is Donovan Watts. I am the Founder of Getting Sites Built, a web design agency.. we plan, design and build websites. Donovan's thoughtStream is my weblog. For kicks, I hoop. 
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my dell 22" monitor is so freakin' big that I have to up the size of text on web pages 4x usually. hopin' i don't go blind. 
brilliant geekery: building a moleskine hard drive case.
Daniel Jalkut quoting Brent Simmons: "Every time you touch the mouse, God kills a kitten."
i wonder if i'll hit the monkey this saturday?
coda and opml editor 
why do i like coda so much? it's one stop web development on the mac. the interface is beautiful, sparse, and i don't have to switch from application to application just to make a change to a web page.
i've been using coda a lot in the last two days and i am absolutely hooked. it is perfect for my needs. anyway, something struck me just now, a thought that's always been in the back of my mind since my early exposure to Frontier. i wish Frontier/Radio/OPML Editor had a pretty interface.
There, I've said it. Yes, that flies in the face of it's lean, screw-you-mac-interface-guidelines attitude. But come on, this is still a programmer minded environment. Daunting to the newbies.
Imagine if there was a Coda like interface just for OPML Editor. Maybe even focused on just the Community weblog stuff and some Tools. Hide everything else.
Now, build a good looking Mac OS X client (sorry Windows users, this is *my* dream) and hook into the Editor. This is where I wish my grafix skills were decent so I could throw together an example of what's in my mind. Basically, I'm talking about adding a custom designed front-end on the OPML Editor. I've seen others do it with a browser interface for Radio UserLand but I'm tired of web interfaces all of a sudden. How about some focus on the client?
canton at sampleswap.org: "300 MB of new samples (1,125 sounds) have been uploaded to the "2007 MARCH UPDATE" folder."
The OPML Editor Docs mention nothing about how to install a fresh copy of OPML Editor and then integrate your existing OPML Editor data. how do i perform a clean install of OPML Editor and keep my last few years of posts?
The Web Design Survey
I just took the Web Design Survey that is found on A List Apart. It's good to know that folks are compiling information like this. It should help fine-tune our understanding of the Web Professional Industry.
Something is wrong with my OPML Editor
Even though I am fully up to date, I don't get a Twitter button. Others do. I don't. How to fix? I don't know. Neither does anyone from the community though I sure do appreciate their efforts in helping me track this down.
So, today I think I'll dig around the web and hopefully figure out how to start over. The trick will be to keep all my data intact of course.
Vann pointed out Gmail Tips - The Complete Collection.
Have I pointed out Genex's photostream?
along for the ride
i've been wondering, what's in store for opml editor? is this basically it? i like it but am just wondering where we go from here?
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