Axodys

I just stumbled onto a great article over at O’Reilly on Using CSS as a Diagnostic Tool. I never realized how useful user style sheets can be.

Uh oh! Even Greg Knauss is jumping on the Mozilla bashing bandwagon these days.

I watched my second soccer game of the summer last night as the Spokane Shadow beat the Abbottsford 86ers 4-3. It was a much better game than the previous night when the Shadow lost 0-3 to Seattle. The sad thing to me was the biggest difference between the two games was the quality of the officiating. Saturday’s referee did a much better job of calling the game consistantly and fairly and it allowed both teams a chance to compete for the victory. That didn’t happen Friday.

Today I verified that Pair (the company that hosts me) has PHP running so I started fiddling around with it a bit. Pretty nifty and not that hard to pick up. It also means I should be able to start putting up some picture archives with a lot less work. I’ll have to fiddle with that some this weekend.

Today was a fairly productive day. And best of all my new computer desk is completerly assembled and even has a couple computers on it. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll finish rearranging my apartment and get all my computers hooked back up to my apartment network. Now for some gaming action!

Apple’s newly introduced optical mouse looks fairly cool, but it’s not really suited for gaming. I’ll probably end up picking up a Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical instead. Yesterday I found I liked the feel of the Optical model a lot more than that of the slightly more expensive Explorer model when I tried them both out at the local Office Depot.

And yes, my desire for a new mouse has been largely influenced by excessive Diablo II playing.

My sunburn is fading a bit, but it still hurts.

Diablo II continues to suck up all my time when I get home from work. I’m still having problems logging into battle.net, but I’m making good progress in single player. I also discovered diabloii.net today. Definitely a great source of information on everything from strategy to easter eggs.

I had a fun, but quick trip over to Seattle this weekend. Today before driving back my dad and I caught a Mariners game at Safeco Field, and of course they lost just as they did the last time I saw a game in person. Hard to believe that was just under a year ago. The seats weren’t as good this time around, but it was a close game and it was hot and sunny. Unfortunately as a result I also managed to acquire the worst sunburn I’ve had in several years. I had used sunscreen prior to the game, but only applied it to my ears, nose, and neck and failed to protect my far more vulnerable forearms and knees. I won’t make that mistake again.

Diablo 2 is really, really… _diabolical_. It took me a while to clean out enough hard drive space to do the install after work, and then the install itself took more than a few minutes, but the payoff was awesome. I stayed up a bit later than I should have, but my level 8 amazon is developing quite nicely. On a slightly down note, the one time I tried logging on to create a battle.net character it didn’t work. Considering there were server problems before all the Mac users got their copies of Diablo 2 I guess it shouldn’t be too surprising though.

Yay! My copy of Diablo 2 is on the way. Just in time too as my girlfriend is going to be out of town for most of next week and summer basketball ends tomorrow. Suddenly I’m going to have a lot of free time on my hands again.