Axodys

How crazy is this? Ohio State Freshman sensation Maurice Clarett has arthroscopic surgery, unlikely to play Sat. According to the article he was actually injured in the first half of the game against WSU, so that would mean he actually gained almost 200 yards after the inuring his knee. On the one hand I admire him for what he was able to do while injured, but on the other I’m appalled that the OSU coaching staff would allow him to remain in the game well into garbage time when it turned out he needed surgery (however minor).

I was pretty excited to watch MNF tonight, but Philadelphia came in and dominated from the beginning and put an end to that. Spurrier just doesn’t have the horses he needs yet.

Other thoughts: Arrington has is clearly talented, but he keeps missing crucial tackles. If he can start finishing some plays it will make a huge difference for the Redskins defense.

I’m still annoyed Spurrier showed no interest in Bledsoe back when he was available. Like John Madden said you’ve got two guys that are cheap and easy (to sign), but that’s just not going to cut it.

Objective-C: the More Flexible C++ Objective-C gives you the full power of a true object-oriented language with exactly one syntax addition to C and, unlike C++, about a dozen additional keywords.

I’ve actually been thinking about fiddling around with Cocoa and Objective-C lately so I found this article especially useful. Yesterday I contemplated buying Building Cocoa Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide while shopping at the University Village Barnes and Noble, but didn’t end up buying it because of its hefty price tag. I think I still might order it online though as it should be a little cheaper.

I found out today that directions are up for installing Fink under Jaguar so I decided to give it a go. The basic install went smoothly, but I ran into a couple issues getting XDarwin running. Ultimately the solution to that problem was installing the 4.2.0.1 XDarwin application package over the top of my xfree86-base and xfree86-rootless fink installation. I also succeeded in getting Gimp up and running, but now I need to get a decent window manager running.

After a little me perusing, it’s now clear that iCal has a killer feature in its calendar subscription format. Visiting their iCal library yields a variety of different schedules for sports, events, etc. Very cool and handy.

Funny, I was just thinking this morning that Apple’s iCal calendaring software should be coming out soon. I got to work, read a few Mac news sites and discovered that sure enough, today was the day it had been released.

I haven’t had a chance to play with it very much, but I see it at has an option to export a calendar to a website. That could be pretty handy.

On a semi-random (but interesting to me) note I averaged between 500-600 KB/s on the download. That’s a huge improvement over the best case scenarios of 100-150 KB/s that I’ve been used to seeing in the past here at work. I guess the network guys have been making some improvements in our infrastructure behind the scenes.

I had a real nice evening over at my grandparents watching football and fixing their vcr. The latter took less than a minute, as the culprit was merely a video tape that had been inserted backwards. A solid tug popped it right out.

The football game was a good one featuring the New York Giants and new Seahawk division rival San Francisco. Tied 6 - 3 at the half in a contest between two solid defensive squads, both offenses broke free with touchdowns at the running back spot in the second half. Then with the score knotted at 13 all and just under two minutes remaining, NY’s defense shifted into that classic oxymoronic scheme know as the prevent defense. Terrell Owens promptly broke free to get his longest catch of the day and the Niners ran the clock down and nailed the field goal to seal the game.

Other thoughts: NY tight end Jeremy Shockey is without question my new favorite player. After the preseason game Monday Night Football Game a few weeks back where he broke free for a long gain and destroyed a db on his way down field I was pretty much sold. Tonight he had a pretty solid game and had one long gain, but missed his chance for glory when they ran a tight end screen pass in the fourth quarter and he dropped the ball. How cool is it that the Giants have a play like that though?!

Kung-Log Kung-Log is a donation-ware OSX application to post to and manage entries of a MovableType weblog.

Kung-Log is actually an AppleScript Studio generated application. Cool!

Incidentally, this is the first post I’ve attempted via Kung-Log.

Note: Seems to work well.

Just saw that BBEdit 6.5.3 is now available.

Unfortunately the bbedit command line application doesn’t seem to have updated. It’s still showing up at 1.0.2 rather than version 1.0.4 the release notes mention . I’m probably going to have to investigate this further to find out what’s going on.

Digging through the ol’ music collection tonight as I finally get in gear on cleaning and organizing my office. For my opening cd (I’m having issues with my external hard drive at the moment) I decided to go with Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream. I’d actually kind of forgotten what a great album it is. All 13 tracks are solid. Hard to believe it came out nine years ago. Where does the time go?