Jim Roepcke blogs Tim O'Reilly talking about Mac OS X. [Scripting News]

Clever thoughts. We have the inter-networking technology, but only use it a few places. Why?

Or even better, why can't I have a standard iChat view. I have a standard WebCore view, why can't I have a standard iChat one? Developers could embed this view in a window (or a drawer).

Think about SubEthaEdit. Great way to collaborate on documents, but it's really hard to talk while you're doing it. The few times I've done it we've just written in the document itself, but... yuck. Popping back and forth from SubEthaEdit to iChat isn't the best seeming solution either (or maybe this is just because I have a small screen)

With a standard iChat control, the developers of SubEthaEdit would be able to easily embed chat ability right into their editor. Anything you could select and run a Service on you should be able to channel through this control.

The other thing Tim touches on, sharing, I have no idea. It's almost like an application should be able to say "this is sharable data for application Y", then, when someone else on the network has application Y open, they see all the shared data. Trickier though. Although I guess the actual data sharing doesn't have to happen until later - first, advertise that data with this name (and maybe a bit of application level metadata) is available. When someone requests this data (asking your application for it via the metadata), you send it.

Of course, what happens when you receive an instant message? Does it go to the front app? To iChat? To iChat unless the message body somehow specifies what app it should go to? I don't know.

Browse the The Original Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products - weapons for animated cartoon violence. [Daily Illuminator]

Next time I'm up against my animated nemesis, I shall have an adequate weapon!!!

Bob the Angry Flower on Apostrophe's (as poster and as strip) [Daily Illuminator]

Ymmy... apostrophe's. And angry flowers.

"AppleScript 1.9.2 for Mac OS X 10.3 Release Notes [macscripter.net]

Lots of good bug fixes and features in this release. Lots. Like being able to get the short date string of a date (something I've had problems with for a long time, and have this big long complex function to deal with).

Jonathan Nathan has updated "Convert Script to Markup Code" to version 2.1.7. This script is designed to mirror the exact code from a Script Editor of your choice for posting to BBCode and HTML web pages via copy/paste.... [macscripter.net]

Next time I post some Applescript somewhere I'll have to use this. Sounds cool.