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I’m in the process of trying to load Zope on one of my two LinuxPPC boxes. I’m assuming it’s possible, but I haven’t actually seen ppc specific RPM’s anywhere. Looks like I may have to it the hard way.

Apple’s stock is up to a new record price of almost $120 today after last night’s earnings announcement. Here’s some additional info at MacCentral.

Looks like the big Transmeta announcement begins in 45 minutes or so.

Yesterday I received my recently ordered version 2.0 VisiBone Web Designer’s color reference poster and it’s simply gorgeous. The original poster was very nice to begin with, but the new edition almost glows. Check it out if you’re looking for a useful tool that looks great as well.

I found out at work today that they’re not going to be hiring a new computer assistant to work with me because of budget constraints. That could be potentially good and bad for me in that it means more work, but also more justification for additional pay. It was definitely a bit of a suprise to me since just last week my supervisor said that they were moving ahead in the hiring process. I’ve managed to get by okay since October when my friend Dale took a new job, maybe that’s part of the reason for the decision.

Tomorrow should be an interesting day in the computer technology industry. Transmeta will finally reveal what they’re all about. MacWeek has a nice article with a little background on the company and the Crusoe chip they’ve been working on.

I really enjoy Bruce Tognazzini’s Ask Tog site. There’s a lot of really valuable interface design information that I’d never even considered until I started reading his columns.

I wasn’t able to read about his thoughts on aqua until today because his site was getting so much traffic. Unsurprisingly that page seemed to be very popular with the weblogging community the last few days.

In one of his most recent responses to reader email Tog came around to the Cam-centric opinion that sans serif fonts are indeed better for surfing. Cam’s suggestion to set your browser’s default font to Verdana has made a world of difference for me.

I actually have quite a bit of space now that I’ve cleaned up some of the clutter in my apartment. It’s a nice feeling. I’ve been thinking about doing a site redesign for a while now, but I haven’t started on it yet. I think I should be able to find time during the coming week though.

I didn’t watch any of the playoff games this past weekend, but it’s definitely cool to see a bunch of fresh teams in the NFL playoffs. CNNSI’s Peter King gives a pretty good rundown on this week’s match ups.

Incidentally, Jeff Robinson, one of my dad’s former players, scored a touchdown for the Rams in yesterday’s game against the Vikings. He was a starter for the Ferris basketball team that finished second in the Washington AAA state tournament in 1988.

I fully intended to update the old weblog yesterday, but I managed to get pretty busy with everything and didn’t realize until after midnight. When you use Blogger you don’t have the luxury of posting a day after the fact.

I caught an afternoon showing of Magnolia and found it quite satisfying. It certainly wasn’t a movie for the masses, but I enjoyed its quirky interwoven subplots and various dysfunctional characters quite a bit.

Yay! My manager is taking care of my dripping ceiling problems. He seems like a pretty good guy. The whole situation actually gives me an excuse to rearrange the furniture in my bedroom a little bit.

Cringely’s latest column mostly talks about his take on the AOL/Time-Warner merger, but the most interesting thing to me was the last paragraph:

Looks like there’s a new Macintosh Python IDE in development called Viper. I haven’t played with the product yet because it seems to have a very limited release at this point, but it certainly sounds intriguing.

I’m hoping to find some time this weekend to play with Python a little on my own. I think I’d also like to start working on a site redesign as well.

Today I found out that we had already received the three iMac DV Special Editions I ordered last week so I’ve been playing with them a bit. The first thing I noticed when trying out the included Bug’s Life DVD was that the Harman Kardon speakers are excellent. I’ll bet with the addition of an iSub it’s just phenomenal.

On a purely aesthetic level the iMac DV SE’s graphite case is very pleasing and because it has no built in fan it’s eerily quiet. It actually made me resent the fan noise of a couple nearby computer’s that I had previously had no problem ignoring.

Looks like I was born in the year of the sound bite.

This David K. Every column over at MacWeek has an interesting comparison of the value of Apple stock vs. Dell stock. 2000 is going to be a fascinating year for Apple with everything they’ve got in the works.

I’ve been working on Filemaker Pro here at work quite a bit in the last few months. Its simplicity and ease of use makes it well suited for various record keeping tasks we have here in the Gonzaga School of Education. There are definitely times when I wish working with it was a little bit more like traditional programming, but overall I’m quite satisfied with it.

It snowed just enough last night to make the morning drive to work a little bit dicey. Thankfully I only live 10 minutes away (under normal conditions of course). I decided to take the freeway thinking it might be a little more clear than the side streets, but the exit ramp ended up being a bigger mess than I anticipated.