Axodys

Well, installing Norton AntiVirus just brought a 64MB laptop running Win2K to its knees. I’m not sure why it didn’t occur to me that this would be the case. Well, live and learn I guess. Time to order those building-wide RAM upgrades.

It’s now possible to use Radio as a Python IDE thanks to a new Radio tool by David Brown. This. Is. Awesome.

Time to get productive. Two tasks for sometime in the next several days:
* Design a new layout for axodys.com.
* Start uploading to axodys.com rather than just my “Radio page”:http://radio.weblogs.com/200100006/.

On a related note I haven’t been able to find any sign of the little howto I came across that described how to use rsync in conjunction with Radio under MacOS X. I’m kind of shocked that I didn’t link to it at the time actually.

Tonight’s varsity boys basketball game against Lewis & Clark had a pretty high lameness factor as we (Ferris) were 16-2 in league going in while the Tigers were 2 - 16. Add a late start because of senior night and you’ve got a recipe for general basketball malaise. In a way that’s surprising because L.C. is our big rival on Spokane’s South Hill, but considering the one sided nature of the Ferris-L.C. boys basketball rivalry over the last 20 years it only makes sense.

Prior to the game all of LC’s graduating seniors and their parents were recognized out on the court and that was very nice, but it delayed things a bit on one we just wanted to get over with. In the end we won by about 15, but it wasn’t particularly pretty. L.C. did a great job of competing— they certainly didn’t seem like a team that should have as many losses as they do.
While our team didn’t play inspired basketball, they didn’t overlook the Tigers either and in the end they got the W.

I’d also have to say that L.C.’s new gym is a very nice facility size-wise. Hopefully Wayne Gilman Court at Ferris will get a comparable upgrade sometime in the next 10 years. Either that or return most of our GSL games to the Spokane Arena where they belong. But I digress.

While the varsity game wasn’t that thrilling, todays’s boys JV game between the Saxons and the Tigers was very competitive. The game started off with a barrage of 3 pointers from both sides and at the end of the quarter we led the Tigers 23-18. I told our players during the break between quarters, “the offense was great, but the defense was terrible and that we were going to be in trouble if we didn’t pick up the D because the offense wasn’t going to last.”

Unfortunately, my words proved prophetic as we only scored 4 points in the second quarter and fell behind 33-27 to end the half. After a productive halftime chat we got things righted in the third quarter and pulled within one at 43-44. Then siezing the momentum with some timely baskets we managed to take control in the fourth quarter and pushed the lead to as much as 9 before letting L.C. back into the game through missed shots and turnovers. Down 3 with 3 seconds remaining and the ball in their half of the court, the L.C. was unable to make a final 3 pointer to send the game into overtime and we came away with a 59-56 victory.

Heh. I just noticed Dave Winer linked to me for the first time ever on Scripting News today. Sweet! But Dave, that’s Gilman with one “L” thank you very much!

This is the first time I’ve remotely blogged from home while my PowerBook has remained at work. It’s actually just as fast or faster because of the slight delay IE 5.1 seems to experience when I use Radio locally.

Okay, now that I’ve seen just how much potential this has I want more. Funny how that works.

I’d really like to see a more powerful Radio API for one thing. The Blogger API is soooo limited. I’d love to see calls that give you the power to create your own interface. How cool would it be to be able to pull up a little aqua dialog window that displays all of this months posts for you to choose from? Or what if at submit time Radio Service could pop up a little window that would allow you to designate post categories. I don’t really know the ins and outs of MacOS X Service applications, but I see a ton of promise here.

Well, I’ve got to jet. More on this topic later.

I just used the RadioService to send the above text from a selected outline within WeblogData.root (inside Radio). Not sure how useful that is, but it’s kind of wild.

I just downloaded the RadioService Alpha from bbum and this is a little test post to see if I can send things over from within BBEdit. A service seems nice, but I’d like to to be able to do this with a key combination. Wait. I see that I can do exactly that. Well, this is exactly what I’ve been waiting for and it will work from within anything that supports services! Rock!

Oops! Just realized that Radio isn’t running at the moment.

Now, it’s running, but it didn’t go through. Try again.

Hmm… I didn't have the Allow Blogger API flag set. One more time.

Yep, everything worked, but it did some funky things with my punctuation.

Didn’t do much weblogging today obviously. Now I’m kind of tired, but I think I’ll read for a bit before I go to bed.

Practice went well this afternoon. Hopefully the team will come to play tomorrow afternoon.

I spent most of the day reading Ken Follett’s Code To Zero. It wasn’t an earth shattering suspense novel by any means, but it kept me interested until the end. While this book is nowhere near the league of Cryptonomicon, I definitely enjoyed the mid 20th century espionage elements the two books share.