Axodys

Gimp-Print 4.2.5 is the newest final release for Mac OS X; it includes 197 drivers supporting over 511 printers.

Now what I’d really like is a Classic printer driver that interfaces directly with your default printer in the Print Center.

For the first time in recent memory the team that I wanted to win the Super Bowl actually did. Congratulations to Jon Gruden and his Buccaneers!

I have to admit that I thought the deal Tampa Bay made to hire Gruden away from Oakland last year was crazy, but it turned out to be worth every penny. Go figure.

Raiders vs. Buccaneers

Reasons I want Tampa Bay to win:
• I hate the Raiders.
• Tampa Bay’s colors are pretty close to Ferris colors and I’ve always kind of rooted for them since they changed their uniforms back in the mid-90’s.
• Jon Gruden
• Derrick Brooks
• Ronde Barber

Incidentally, Barret Robbins, the Raiders’ starting center, got sent home.

Super X-ray proves insects do breath.

WASHINGTON ? Researchers have settled one of the longest-running ? if lesser-known ? controversies in science: Bugs, it turns out, do breathe.

The discovery may seem small, and by some measures it is. Exposing insects to X-ray beams 1 billion times more powerful than ones used by doctors, scientists have observed pulsing, lunglike structures that typically are smaller than the commas in this sentence.

In some ways I’m fairly surprised that the anatomy of insects hasn’t been studied at this level before. I didn’t realize that the required technology simply wasn’t there until recently.

Update: Scientific American also has a brief article on the topic (with picture).

Weblog backend Blosxom just hit version 1.0.

I played with one of the early releases several months back, but I haven’t tried it recently. May have to take another look.

Here’s a nice list of weblogs by Python programmers.

Vellum is an intriguing weblog backend written in Python. Particularly cool features include: “Funky caching”, Plugins, and “Real code in your templates” (further explanation).

Nice article in today’s Oregonian on Livejournal wizard Brad Fitzpatrick.

Coincidentally, I was just down in Hillsboro (where Brad lives) myself a week and a half back to pick up our new puppy Gitte.

The last week has definitely taken its toll so I’m not really surprised that I’ve developed a sore throat and runny nose, but I don’t have to like it. Thank goodness for three day weekends! Now if I can just make some progress on some work-related projects I can actually enjoy it.

Things to look forward to:
* Rest
* Spending quality time with Mary and Gitte.
* Rest

When the 800Mhz 12.1″ iBook came out I was pretty sure I wanted that to be my next computer. After yesterday’s MacWorld announcements I’m really quite happy that I didn’t rush out and pick one up a few months back.

The new 12.1″ PowerBook announced yesterday not only has basically the same form factor (with an aluminum case), but it also has an 867Mhz G4 processor and can be purchased with a slot loading DVD-burning SuperDrive! Must. Control. Wallet.

On a related note check out the coolest ad* that Apple has come out with in quite a while!

*Yao Ming rules!

The axodys.com domain seems to be working fine again, but it was down yesterday because I forgot to renew my registration. Of course I discovered this yesterday while trying to go there using Apple’s new Safari web browser.

There’s definitely a lot to like about Apple’s new browser, but as a regular Chimera user I really prefer a browser that supports tabs. Hopefully that’s on Apple’s list of things to add. Speed-wise Safari seems quite snappy and I think it’s very cool that Apple built on and improved the KHTML engine behind the open source Konqueror browser.