Axodys

Does anyone else think that the folks at Pyra have had more than enough time to calculate which Blogs are hot on the main Blogger page? I think they should change the title to *Not* as in: _We really ought to get our act together and put something here, but we’re too busy hiring cool people and working on secret projects. So now we’re not._

I think my weblog rating of 50% is pretty much accurate. And I don’t really care one way or the other.

Road Trip! Jack blogs his journey from Atlanta to San Francisco. I’ll probably be taking a road trip of my own in the opposite direction come August when my friend Jesse heads across teh country to New Jersey for a position with Teach for America. I don’t know if I’ll be able to blog during that trip, but I’m planning on taking a lot of pictures.

Speaking of trips, Mary and I are headed to Washington DC on Wednesday for the ABA conference she’s presenting at. We’ll only be there until Monday, but it should be a lot of fun, especially since I spent nine days last August vacationing back there with my family and know my way around a little.

I guess I should have called in earlier this week. US West seems to have changed their Cisco 675 settings and that was the reason I wasn’t able to login despite showing good activity. Once a friendly customer service rep instructed me on the appropriate settings changes I was golden!

It’s always nice to look at the Fresh Blogs list late at night and see that some of my fellow bloggers are up fiddling around at this hour as well.

Yesterday, I got to spend a few hours visiting with Steve Jungk, one of my best friends from college. He was in town with his family for a wedding and I hadn’t seen him since last August during his brother’s wedding. We walked downtown to grab some lunch at The Olive Garden and shot the breeze about all the various people I hadn’t kept in contact with since college but was still curious about. Unfortunately he had to head back to Seattle shortly afterward.

The contrast between downtown Spokane on a Sunday and downtown Spokane during Saturday night’s Lilac Parade was pretty amazing. I’m guessing less than one percent the number of people that were out for the annual event were on the streets yesterday. The next big downtown event is of course Hoopfest at the end of June. I’m planning to watch a lot of basketball and take a lot of pictures.

*Update 8/25/05:* I just noticed this morning when looking at my referrer stats that someone using an older Mac came to this page after a goodge search for “steve jungk jason gilman”. It seems likely that I would know anyone that tried that particular search combination; I wonder who it was?

Ev finally announced Pyra’s 2nd Announcement. Or did he? I’m glad I wasn’t the only one confused by their apparent failure to announce anything yesterday. I was starting to wonder if Ev’s radio gig was the second announcement, obviously that wasn’t the case.

I need to turn Axodys into a company just so that I can write my own snarky press releases. This blogging thing just isn’t cutting it anymore!

Sleepy, sleepy, sleepy. Well, not quite that sleepy. I’m out at my parent’s house hanging with my sister while they’re off enjoying a little quality time together in Couer D’Alene. Not that she isn’t old enough to fend for herself for one measly night at this point, but I don’t really mind at all as Kristen and I always get along marvelously anyway.

You don’t know how just how many times Mary and I have needed this important new dinner discussion generation tool. This just goes to show that pb is an asp genius. I just know this is going to save me hours in the future !

Ben Brown is back on his death-of-content soap box once again. Whether his latest diatribe will inspire the weblogging masses remains to be seen. I certainly have aspirations to do more than just daily commentary/link/commentary, but I obviously haven’t done anything about them yet. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of response he gets this time around. I’m betting somebody will post it to Metafilter any moment now.

On a semi-related note about content, one advantage Manila based weblogs have over the Blogger format is built in support for stories. I know that you can whip up something similar within Blogger by creating a new blog specifically for longer stories, but it requires a little bit more work on the user’s part than working within the Manila framework. This is something I’ll definitely be figuring out more about during the new redesign I’ve been talking about forever (can I use moving as an excuse?) and hope to have in place soon.

It was a real pleasure to start my morning off listening to the likes of Evan, Brad, and Rebecca on the Connection while they discussed the weblogging phenomena we all know and love. The topic of blogging on the show worked quite well despite Matt Haughey’s doubts about how well the radio format could convey an understanding of blogging. Of course that’s the biased opinion of someone who has been blogging for a while. At any rate it was tremendously cool to listen to some people I really admire talk about a subject dear to us all.