Axodys

“Wildcats, Saxons roll on to regionals”:http://spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=022803&ID=s1310251

Mt. Spokane 55 - Lewis & Clark 44
Ferris 71 - Shadle Park 49

Ferris and Mt. Spokane meet for the third time this season at 5:45 PM out at Central Valley high school. Should be a good battle.

“Blogger+Google FAQ”:http://www.blogger.com/about/blogger_google_faq.pyra

My favorite question and answer:

*Q: What happened to all the nice kids that worked at Blogger?*
*A:* The ones that were here during the acquisition are still working on Blogger and making it better. For the record, that includes “Evan Williams”:http://evhead.com, “Jason Shellen”:http://www.shellen.com, “Steve Jenson”:http://www.saladwithsteve.com, Rudy Winnacker, “Jason Sutter”:http://jason.similarselection.org, and “Jason Goldman”:http://similarselection.org/goldtoe. Yes, that’s a lot of Jasons, we know.

You can’t go wrong with a lot of Jasons.

Guess this has been out since Monday and I missed it until just a few minutes ago, but Slashdot announce a leaked version of “Safari running tabs”:http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/1318223. I’m pleased to report that I’m typing this entry in one of three tabs I currently have open. Tabs seem to be working as expected. Hopefully the next legititmate Safari release will include this welcome addition.

“Boodler: a programmable soundscape tool”:http://www.eblong.com/zarf/boodler/index.html created by Andrew Plotkin.

bq. Boodler is a tool for creating soundscapes — continuous, infinitely varying streams of sound. Boodler is designed to run in the background on a computer, maintaining whatever sound environment you desire.

bq. Boodler is extensible, customizable, and modular. Each soundscape is a small piece of Python code — typically less than a page. A soundscape can incorporate other soundscapes; it can combine other soundscapes, switch between them, fade them in and out. This package comes with many example soundscapes. You can use these, modify them, combine them to arbitrary levels of complexity, or write your own.

Sounds pretty nifty and it apparently works under MacOS X with a little work.

I actually got a little bit motivated tonight and came up with a new weblog style based on Movable Type’s “Plain Jane”:http://movabletype.org/default_styles.shtml#plainjane style. It’s no work of art, but I think it turned out fairly well. I’ll probably continue to tweak things as I go in the coming days.

It’s nice to be blogging regularly again. _Knock on wood!_

I’m trying out Brad Choate’s “MT Textile plugin(Brad Choate is a plugin wizard!)”:http://www.bradchoate.com/past/mttextile.php.

This is an unordered list:

* cats
* dogs
* goldfish

This is an ordered list:

# Gold
# Silver
# Bronze

_This is some italicized text._
*This line contains strong or bold text.*
-This is some crossed out text.-
+I’m not familiar with inserted text, but what the heck.+

Okay, there’s no doubt in my mind. This completely rocks and basically removes the biggest weblog editing annoyance I’ve had up to this point. Thank you “Brad(Plugin Maestro)”:http://www.bradchoate.com and “Dean(Textile style formatting is the best kung fu!)”:http://textism.com!

Ben Trott of Movable Trott fame recently announced text formatting plugins are available. Now that I’ve updated to 2.6.3 I’m going to have to take a look at trying some of the available plugins out. Tiki text and Textile look like two of the most promising plugins.

“Mead, CV set for title”:http://spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=022603&ID=s1308940&cat=section.sports

The district title game should be a good one. The Bears gave the Panthers their closest game of the season before losing by 3.

*Yesterday’s Scores*
Central Valley 55 - Mt. Spokane 52
Mead 85 - Shadle Park 31
Ferris 66 - Gonzaga Prep 57
Lewis & Clark 58 - North Central 47

I haven’t posted about GSL basketball in eons, but since tonight is the first round of district playoffs here is the evenings’s schedule:

Mt. Spokane (16-4) at Central Valley (16-4) 7:45 PM (winner to regionals)
Shadle Park (6-14) at Mead (20-0) 7:45 PM (winner to regionals)
Gonzaga Prep (5-15) at Ferris (14-6) 7:45 PM (loser out)
Lewis and Clark (12-8) at North Central (7-14) 7:00 PM (loser out)

My Powerbook’s desktop has been bugging me for quite a while. It’s just as messy as my real world desk (which isn’t surprising); it just seems like there’s got to be a better way. A computer desktop can be fully automated after all. It should take care of all the organization for me.