Axodys

Hee hee! I found this gem over at deepleap. Takes me right back to those early 80’s days of Choose Your Own Adventure books.

<!–secret message #2 — You’ve unearthed the secret treasure chest! Turn to page 292 to pick the lock. Turn to page 135 to hack at the chest with your axe.–>

Hey, Bump finally has a new design. I’d make snide comments about how long it took after Robert said he was going for a new look, but obviously I need to get my own act together.

Blogger does seem to be a bit more refined when you’re working from a PC with IE 5 as I am now. Lots of various keystroke shortcuts and a windows-esqe gui. I wonder how IE 5 for the Mac is going to be in this regard?

Sabren has some excellent thoughts about getting things done when it comes to programming and focusing. I also can totally relate to what he’s talking about when it comes to becoming distracted by “Toy” projects. I’m looking to hearing how some of his productivity strategies turn out.

Can you guess the correlations? Nifty mathematical application of Java that I found on cuwu.editthispage.com. I don’t think it will replace So You Want To Be A Millionaire or anything, but it’s still fun.

I’ve only seen it twice now, but I think Freaks and Geeks is by far my favorite show on tv right now. Last night Sam’s foray into fashion and hairstyling was highly entertaining.

This is fairly disappointing. I discovered this morning that Newer, the Mac upgrade company that recently announced upgrades for iMacs, is in the midst of serious financial problems. They’ve also been rumored to be working on upgrades for PowerBook G3’s, but unless they get things righted cool products like that will probably never see the light of day.

Looks like iCab does indeed work with Blogger. I checked my iCab preferences and discovered that InScript is not activated by default. Turning it on allows you to publish. Cool!

The new version of iCab is out and it supports JavaScript (or InScript in this case with trademarks and such being what they are). Unlike IE 4.5 for the Mac, it actually seems to work with Blogger as I’m using it right this moment (got to love that German engineering). Oops I spoke too soon, I can post stuff, but the publish button dosen’t do anything. That and there’s still no support for CSS. Still, it’s great to see some third party competition for the big two and it is still in Beta.

In the tradition of EvHead, Megnut and countless other weblogs, I’m hoping to do my own redesign sometime this week. This will of course have to be fit in between work, basketball practice, basketball games, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, eating, spending time with my girlfriend, Ferazel’s Wand, updating my weblog, riding my bike, and everything else. No Mary, those items were not listed by order of importance!

Bye-bye free time, my copy of SMAC for the Mac has arrived.

Here’s a fairly complete list of MacOS 9 compatible software updates from MacFixit.
Okay, I think I’ve managed to upgrade to MacOS 9 without any serious issues. Now it’s time to track down a few software updates. Now where was that page I saw with a comprehensive list?

Just what is deepleap?

Well, not only am I out of shape, but I’m rusty at NCAA Football 99 as well. The good news is that I was able to win a game after losing my first of the season. My new CycleOps Fluid Trainer works splendidly.

In an effort to start getting back into decent shape I’m going to go shopping for one of these today. Ironically this probably means I’ll start using my Playstation again. I can honestly say that I’ve used it more times while exercising than without.

I’ve been debating a lot lately whether or not I want to get the whole Fireworks/Dreamweaver package or just Fireworks. Decisions, decisions…

I ran into my friend Nichole while out at my family’s house today. Nothing like that daily dose of stinging putdowns I always say. She and my sister have a site here. It needs work and it’s not a weblog, but it’s better than nothing.

Looks like I’m finally going to go to The Hurricane tonight. My dad reports that it’s pretty good after seeing it last night so I imagine I’ll like it as well.

Today I acquired a brand new (box and everything) copy of MacOS 9.0 from a friend in exchange for working on his computer yesterday so I’ll probably install that sometime this weekend. Hopefully that will fix my PowerBook’s sleep issues (it has a tendency to freeze while waking up that developed a month or so after I bought it. I investigated the issue a little bit, but rather than spending the time to solve the problem went to the work around of just shutting it off when I transport it.

Dave Winer has posted his latest DaveNet over at Scripting News. It’s a fairly long piece, but it has a lot of interesting stuff on this year’s WEF at Davos and finishes with Dave’s recipe for making money on the Internet. I’m thinking that the plan he discusses is taken directly from what he’s looking to do with EditThisPage.com.

It looks like scientists have made a breakthrough in electro-active polymers that could lead to improved performance in things like, “pumps and motors, valves and generators, robot actuators, inkjet printers and flat-panel loudspeakers.” Even cooler, these same materials could eventually be used to create things like a next generation artificial heart.

Ferazel’s Wand, has been sucking up a fair amount of my free time since its arrival in the mail earlier this week. In my opinion it’s by far Ambrosia’s best work to date. Great characters, great graphics, great music, great… well you get the idea.

Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri for the Mac shipped yesterday. Is my copy in one of these vans? I hope so.

I just received and assembled my first piece of Anthro office furniture (their Ultra Compact Cart). The overall quality and ease of assembly was excellent. I’m definitely going to look into getting one of their models for home the next time I go computer desk shopping.

This is completely ridiculous. Linus Torvalds can’t get a green card because of INS beuracracy. But it gets even worse. According to a recent San Jose Mercury article: U.S. immigration law sets aside 140,000 employment-based green cards each fiscal year. But because of the green card backlog, about 40,000 cards were issued in fiscal year 1999. The approximately 100,000 unused spots don’t roll over to this fiscal year, so they’re lost.

It’s just not a good thing when you’re forcing valuable tech workers out of the country when more and more the economy is being driven by the very industry they work for.

Internet Week has a pretty informative article on migrating your existing Windows NT network to Win2k. This is an issue we’ve been exploring here at Gonzaga for a few months now. Thankfully, since my building is highly Mac-centric I only have a few PC workstations and a couple servers to deal with. I will say the Win2k Professional Beta 3 installation on my office PC went very smoothly and it has a fairly obscure network card.

This San Jose Mercury article has the lowdown on all the Super Bowl commercials. And that one with the stupid ad that I couldn’t remember was lifeminders.com.

I was certainly pleased to see this rumor on Apple Insider yesterday. I love my PowerBook and would definitely prefer being able to just upgrade it to buying a new one.