Axodys

It’s not even 11:30 yet and I’m already getting tired. I guess I’ll be going to bed at a decent hour for a change.

I’ve been having fun with Radio Userland this evening. It’s completely awesome!
I discovered a couple pieces of hardware today that could potentially make the MD player I bought a couple years ago much more useful.

Speaking of digital music and hardware, I’m planning on ordering a new hard drive for my PowerBook pretty soon. That and the Newer PowerBook processor upgrade if they ever start selling it.

I’m completely fascinated by online communication and the people and companies that are making it happen. Between weblogs, online journals, and other groundbreaking stuff like Radio Userland (crap! I just got a Finder message telling me it just crashed, believe it or not). I have absolutely no need for reality based television, I’ve got weblogs.

It’s really, really annoying to start a post, forget about it, and then accidentally jump to another page.

Looks like there’s new life in TADS these days. Someday I will actually participate in the annual rec.arts.int-fiction contest.

I’m kind of bummed out that I had no idea this was going on a few weeks ago.Mysterium was an open house at the headquarters of Cyan, the makers of Myst and Riven. Not only are they based here in Spokane (that’s pretty cool as it is), but they’re big Macintosh users. I’m going to have to pay a lot more attention to what they’re up to.

I also tried my hand at Deus Ex early this morning and had some fun with that. It’s going to take me some time to get through the first level though I think. I need to get a lot better at sneaking around.

My friend Steve gave me a tip that solved my Diablo II battle.net login woes. Apparently there was something in my Battle.net Cache file that was a little bit corrupted. Once I threw it away and relaunched Diablo II I had no problems logging into battle.net for some online adventuring.

Damien has a new essay:In Defense of AppleTalk? I’m in complete agreement with the majority of the points he makes. Two years ago here at work when we (well my supervisior at the time at least) decided to go with NT systems for our file and print serving needs, it didn’t take me very long to figure out that Macs are far happier printing directly to the printers via Appletalk. Luckily I had a good relationship with him, and convinced him to allow our largely Mac based building computer population to make the switch back to direct printing via AppleTalk. Hopefully the coming move to MacOS X will bring further standardization on TCP/IP along with it.

Today is my sister’s birthday. Happy Birthday Kristen! Just remember, now that you’re eighteen everything goes on your permanent record.

And the scary thing is this Win2K bug is probably just one of thousands.

Sometime yesterday morning the campus DNS server went down and pretty much brought all Internet activity to a grinding halt at work. Hopefully they’ll have it fixed by the time I come into work this morning. If not, I’m sure I can anticipate a day filled with complaints about lack of email and web access, and there won’t be a thing I can do.