Axodys

I read the first Harry Potter book during the drive down to Utah last week and I really enjoyed it. I think part of the reason I liked it so much was J.K. Rowlings imagination reminds me a lot of my own.

Uh oh! Mary bought some Tae Bo fitness videos today at lunchtime. I don’t know if it’s going to be safe to go over to her apartment any more now :).

My current fitness regimen consists mainly of riding my bike (on trackstand) while playing NCAA Football 99.

John McCain came to campus this morning for a Town Meeting less than a block from my building. Unfortunately I had to work during the whole thing, but I did catch a couple minutes of the televised coverage. It was interesting to see the effects of three or four hundred more people than usual converging on the COG.

This view of the weblog world is by far the coolest I’ve seen yet.

The Quicktime trailer to the X-Men movie is out! Not only does it look pretty sweet (Wolverine battles Sabretooth on top of the Statue of Liberty at one point), but for once it’s a preview that doesn’t give anything about the plot away. I’m sure they’ll do that eventually, it’s a long time till July 14.

Yes, I used to collect comic books many moons ago.

No progress yet on the redesign (obviously). I have managed to do some laundry though and I’m also planning to do a little bit of exercising shortly.

I’ve played quite a bit of NCAA Football 99 today on the old Playstation. I’m getting better, but I’ve got a ways to go.

I bought Fireworks 3 and Dreamweaver 3 just prior to my trip, so I now have absolute no excuse for putting off the old site redesign. Looks like there should be plenty of time tomorrow to get that taken care of.

I can’t believe I missed posting on Thursday. I’m definitely slipping.
I have now returned from my whirlwind trip to Salt Lake City. There’s nothing quite like two 12 hour road trips (bookending a 60 hour span) squished in the back seat of a truck that really onlys seat two comfortably. It was actually a pretty fun trip.

The new PowerBook G3’s definitely look appealing. Obviously I’m not going to go out and get one since I’ve only had my Lombard for four months now, but I’d love to have one. The good news is that I will get to play with one fairly soon, since I’m ordering one for one of the faculty members in my building.

Well, Apple finally announced the new PowerBooks. The low end model is now a 400 MHz G3 and the high end sports a 500 Mhz G3. Both come with DVD, two firewire ports and the RAGE mobility 128 chipset. Surprisingly enough they seem to have kept the Lombard enclosure.

What is X10 you say? Andy Ihnatko tells all about his new addiction over at Mac Central. I have to admit my curiosity is piqued.

Well, obviously it started working again. I’ll quit complaining.

Great, Blogger is acting weird this morning and telling me it can’t find axodys.com. I of course have no problems going directly to axodys.com.

There’s quite a bit of snow dropping out of the sky this morning. And it hasn’t shown any signs of letting up yet either.

Happy Valentines Day Mary! I love you!

Hmm… so much for inline CSS. I wonder what I’m doing wrong? Ah ha! Fractured tags can kill you.

The SVG stuff (simple vector graphics) that Dave Winer has been talking about recently on Scripting News is fairly interesting, but also kind of depressing. Oh boy, yet more cool technology that will take at least another year or two for widespread browser adoption and integration.

I went to Angela’s Ashes this afternoon with my girlfriend and her parents. It was fairly good, but the word from Mary and her mom is the book (as is often the case I think) is far superior.
Hmm, the weekend is nearly over.

Hacker News has an informative article on the Distributed Denial of Service attacks that have been plaguing several of the major Internet sites this week. It sounds to me like a lot of these issues could be prevented by proper router configuration at the ISP level.

Oh boy, the weekend is here. Hopefully I can find the time to have a fun and productive couple days.