Axodys

Finished the Majesty and Oni demoes and both were pretty fun. The Majesty demo didn’t seem all that challenging though. Too bad Oni won’t be released for a while yet because I’d go out and buy it today if it were.

Funny toddler speak: I learned today that my friend José’s twin toddler sons refer to computers as “dotcoms”. I guess we’ve come a long way from “choochoos” for trains.

Invasion of the ‘Blog’

Worked with Zope quite a bit last night for a project here at work. I wasn’t doing extremely complex stuff, but I learned a few things and accomplished what I set out to do. It’s pretty cool when you get to improve your knowledge in an area of personal interest while spending time on a work related project; a definite plus of my current job is that I have that kind of latitude.

It’s been a week since I last posted. Where does the time go? I’m back at work today, but it doesn’t look like too many other people are yet. I’m going to need to be fairly productive during the next seven working days since I’ve got jury duty starting on the 8th.

Thanks to all the snow we’ve received in the last week, parking on my street is a real mess. While the street itelf is actually bare in spots, the strip along the sidewalk where cars park is a morass of unplowed snow and ice. And unfortunately for me that’s where I parked my car Monday afternoon. I was able to ignore the problem yesterday by getting a ride to work from Mary, but this morning I figured it was time to get my car back into operation. At one point I almost gave up, but after 45 minutes of pushing, crawling around, and general wheel spinning shenanagins my car was free to roam the streets of Spokane again. Now if I can just figure out a better place to park tonight when I get home.

Whew! So much snow everywhere. I’m just glad that I was able to get my car moved into a decently plowed parking lot. It was fairly buried this morning, but I brushed off the two inches of accumulated snow that were covering it and eventually got it moving out of the deeper snow it was parked in. At least the plows seem to be out today.

My continuing foray into LinuxPPC is actually going pretty well. I finally feel like I’ve successfully turned the corner on understanding how to get everything working. That’s not to say that I’ve successfully managed to get Zope up and running yet (a couple permissions issues to resolve first), but I did get it compiled despite my Linux machine’s initial lack of a compiler, headers, libraries, and a full understanding of how to install RPMs. The key was installing gnorpm, the Gnome Redhat Package Manager because it does a really nice job of showing you what you have and what you still need to install.

Today was domain name renewal time. Hard to believe I’m coming up on two year’s worth of axodys.com. It’s been fun to see the growth of weblogs since I first started recording my random links and thoughts. The growth of the medium in that short time has been simply amazing. The only downside to the whole phenomena is that so many of the new blogs are of such quality that I’m often disappointed with my lack of quality content here. Still, it’s good to have something to strive for.

Snow, snow, snow this evening. And more on the way tomorrow afternoon.

Tonight I caught my first Spokane Chiefs hockey game in three or four years, and unfortunately they wasted a great 39 save effort by their goalie and lost 2-1.

Last, but by no means least, Tuesday night my father coached his 500th career high school boys basketball victory. Reaching the milestone was a sweet moment, but the things that make me proudest of my dad are not all the wins, but how he approaches every game and handles the outcome whether it’s a win or a loss.

I think Alex Rodriguez’s new contract is ridiculous. He now makes more money per at bat than I make in a year. Clearly he’s all about one thing and it’s not winning championships.

Playing with Mozilla .6 this afternoon. I got it to crash once while tweaking the font size settings and document resolution, but everything seems to be almost back to normal when I relaunched it (unfortunately my url field font seems stuck at an annoyingly small size in the Modern theme now). Overall the general stability and performance seems to be moving right along. I just need to track down and install a few more themes. Ahh yes, I think MozDev.org is the place I’m looking for.