Axodys

Scott Collins has started putting together a nice Konfabulator tutorial called “Konfabulator: The Beginning Widget Writer’s Guide”:http://www.scottcollins.net/konfabulator/. Lots of helpful information there if you’re interested in creating a Konfabulator Widget.

“Child’s play: 13-year-old phenom lifts U.S. U-17s to 3-0 rout of Jamaica”:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/grant_wahl/news/2003/02/27/wahl_soccer/

bq. Freddy Adu became the youngest player ever to wear the American uniform Wednesday night as he collected a goal and an assist to lead the Under-17 team to a 3-0 blanking of Jamaica.

I like soccer a lot, but I don’t follow it as religiously as the major U.S. sports so I had never heard of Freddy Adu before today. Based on what I’ve just read it looks like he’s going to be *HUGE* by the time he plays in his first World Cup for the U.S. (conceivably at age 17, just four years from now). If MLS can hang onto him for a while (and he develops into the player that everyone expects) soccer popularity in this country could go through the roof. Americans embrace athletic greatness and Freddy Adu sounds like a potential superstar.

SI’s Grant Wahl:
“Adu Taking The Stage”:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/grant_wahl/news/2003/02/27/wahl_soccer/
“Who’s Next? Freddy Adu”:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2003/03/03/freddy/

“Gym dandies: These hoop havens heaven to some”:http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=smitty25&date=20030225&query=sideline+smitty is a great Seattle Times article on the top 20 gyms in Washington. Ferris’ South Hill rival Lewis & Clark’s new gym was ranked #12.

It’s that magical time of year when the valiant boys and girls teams from Washington’s smallest sports classification invade the Spokane Arena for the State B Tournament and for the second straight year the Spokesman Review has a “weblog covering the event”:http://www.spokesmanreview.com/stateb/.

Just under 10 minutes until the first teams tip off. On the boys side Mansfield (16-10) plays Willapa Valley (21-2) and for the girls Naselle (22-1) faces Lyle (20-3).

“GSL’s boys produce regional sweep”:http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=030503&ID=s1313684 “District champ Mead leads the way in an unprecedented first-round domination of Big Nine teams.”

Mead 71 - Walla Walla 40
Central Valley 77 - Richland 57
Ferris 76 - Davis 53
Mt. Spokane 52 - Pasco 46

“Net Newswire”:http://ranchero.com/netnewswire creator Brent Simmons has an “interview”:http://www.macslash.org/Interview/03/03/04/1535234.shtml up over at “MacSlash”:http://macslash.com.

“Mind Reading”:http://www.beyond2000.com/news/Feb_03/story_1426.html

bq. Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science at Cornell University, New York, has developed a method by which a computer can deduce the topics that are dominating discussion at a particular time. To do so, the system scans large collections of documents over long periods in an attempt to pick up sudden, rapid bursts of certain words (or “burstiness”).

The “150 term bursts”:http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb03/AAAS.Kleinberg.bursty.ws.html [bottom of the page] of highest weight in Presidential State of the Union Addresses, 1790-2002.

“Jon Kleinberg’s web page”:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/ has a lot of additional information as well.

Good news for MacOS X users who want wireless on older Macs that don’t support AirPort cards. Belkin offers a wireless USB pod with “drivers”:http://web.belkin.com/support/download/download.asp?download=F5D6050&lang=1&mode= and with a “little hacking”:http://www.mcquitty.net/Thomas/projects/USBWirelessOSX.html it is now possible to hook up devices like the “Netgear MA101″:http://www.netgear.com/products/prod_details.asp?prodID=105&view= that use the same chipset.

This is the perfect wireless solution for my Lombard PowerBook because it allows me to also run a FireWire PC Card, but I probably won’t go this route since I’m planning to upgrade fairly soon anyway.

Morrison may have been magical for Mead, but “Hart was pretty heroic”:http://spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=030103&ID=s1310777&cat=section.sports for Ferris.

bq. Curran Hart drove the length of the court in the final 7.5 seconds, raised up and hit a 15-foot baseline jumper to give the Saxons the comeback victory and the third seed in next week’s Lamb-Weston/Group Health Regional.

bq. Ferris (17-6) battled back from a 12-point third-quarter deficit (31-19) to lead 42-41 on Adam Seaburg’s drive with 24 seconds left, the last of his team-high 14 points.

bq. But the Wildcats’ Derek Brown scored on a baseline drive with 10 seconds left, his only two points of the night, to set up Hart’s heroics.

bq. “I wanted to make up for all the shots I missed,” said Hart, who finished with 10 points. “Up until then I thought I had a pretty crummy game.”

*Scores*
Ferris 44 - Mt. Spokane 43
Mead 81 - Central Valley 77
Davis 76 - Richland 69
Pasco 50 - Walla Walla 35