Axodys

“A Developer’s Perspective on Apple’s 12-inch PowerBook”:http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/28/powerbook.html

Not a lot of information that was new to me, but I still like reading different people’s opinions of what I hope will be my next computer.

Dave Winer mentioned on “Scripting News”:http://www.scripting.com that Macromedia has something in the works today, but hasn’t update his site yet to reflect the announcement. Looks like it’s something called “Macromedia Central”:http://www.macromedia.com/software/central/.

bq. You can develop Macromedia Flash applications people can use both online and offline, right from their desktops. Macromedia Central will help users more easily interact with information on the Internet, and help Macromedia Flash MX developers and designers create, distribute, and sell Macromedia Flash applications.

“White Paper”:http://www.macromedia.com/software/central/whitepaper/central_wp.pdf

Wild Well Control has an “informative animation”:http://www.wildwell.com/cap_animation.htm demonstrating the process of capping a blown out oil well. ["via rc3.org":http://rc3.org"]

On a related note I vaguely remember watching a TV show when I was a little kid (late 70s/early 80s) where they were trying to extinguish an oil well fire using dynamite suspended from a crane. I wonder what show that was? CHiPs or Dallas seem like logical candidates, but I’m really not sure.

“Waiting for the storm in Baghdad”:http://msnbc.com/news/890708.asp?0cv=CA01

bq. BAGHDAD, March 25 — journalist Peter Arnett, one of the last reporters affiliated with an American news organization still in Baghdad, says he does not fear for his personal safety, despite the U.S.-led bombing raids and the possibility of street fighting. But Arnett says if U.S. troops are forced to battle block by block in the Iraqi capital, they will receive a very hostile reception from average Iraqis.
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“One Stepp Short”:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/college/2003/ncaa_tourney/news/2003/03/22/arizona_gonzaga_ap/

Gonzaga played a tremendous game today before falling to Arizona by 1 point in double overtime. And that was with two good looks at the basket before time expired. Like someone said over at “Zagshoops”:http://zagshoops.com , Blake makes that last shot 7 out of 10 times.

I’m already really, really excited about next year’s team though. We’re going to be flat out scary with the addition of Errol Knight, Sean Mallon, Adam Morrison, and Derek Raivio. With everybody coming back except Zach and Winston and the new additions we’ve got more offensive fire power than we’re going to know what to do with. I just don’t think Coach Few can walk away from that kind of team.

“Zags defeat the Bearcats”:http://ak-sports.espn.go.com/f/1917/8668/60s/sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=234000002

In other news I caught the Weber State - Wisconsin and Dayton - Tulsa games in person. The first game was kind of disappointing as the Wildcats fell behind big and only closed within 7 in the second half, but the second game was a lot closer. The good news is that I picked Tulsa with the upset.

Got home from a trip to the vet at around 6:45PM and discovered that we had recently launched a bombing strike on a building where high level Iraqi officials were meeting. Found out a little while later that Saddam Hussein was the primary target.

It’s much later now and I’m feeling exhausted. Tomorrow’s going to be a long day so I think I’ll turn in now.

Also: “an Iraqi citizen’s weblog”:http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/

“The 5 forces that will shape mobile tech”:http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2912948,00.html

* Broadband everywhere
* Extremo Centrino
* Table PC
* Wireless apps appear
* No clear winners in wireless hardware

Speaking of tablet PC’s, Apple is really missing the boat right now by not having a product of their own. My supervisor brought one into a technology group meeting yesterday and a couple people that were present immediately announced that they each wanted one of their own (and one is pretty pro Apple). I still want a 12″ Powerbook G4 myself, but I certainly wouldn’t turn down a tablet if they bought me one at work. Apple already has all the necessary technology so I really think it’s only a matter a time; hopefully they’ll just end up being fashionably late to the tablet party.

Found in Aaron Swartz’s “How to Do Stuff pages:”:http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/howto/ “How to do version control with CVS”:http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/howto/cvs

Especially handy for MacOS X users that have the developer tools installed, but are not yet masters of the command line. Additionally, even though cvs is generally thought of as a programming tool it can be used with any text document, so I’ll probably use it for next year’s NaNoWriMo attempt.

I understand that “BBEdit 7″:http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml also offers built-in integration with cvs as well.

“A review of Web NCAA bracket interfaces”:http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2003/03/17/0328

bq. It’s college basketball tournament time in America, and millions of sports fans are taking their best shot at predicting the winners.

bq. I took some time to look at a few online bracket contests. Not that I’m a sports fan in any way; I was mostly interested in how various sports news sites presented a means for user-submitted brackets.

Fill in the blank brackets are a pretty cool use of web technology; ESPN’s Flash based page sounds especially nice.