I installed Twitter Tools while fiddling around on the web this morning. I’m going to experiment with updating my blog here with daily digests of my all my twitter tweets since I’m doing that a lot more these days. We’ll see if it sticks as something I end up doing regularly. If nothing else it will be a good way to breathe some life back into my blog again I figure.

On a related note it looks like Mary and I are going to try to replace our ancient Nokia 3650s with Samsung Gravity messaging phones this weekend.  I don’t see myself needing (or wanting to pay monthly data fees for) a true smartphone like an iPhone or G1, but I’m looking forward to having an improved camera, a qwerty keypad and new ways to do remote microblogging.

Axodys.com is 10 years old today. I began my first post on January 24, 1999 with, “I’m finally starting to make a little progress on my site here.” And in the intervening years I’ve held that sentiment with surprising regularity.

I spent the last week or so revisiting and tagging the posts from 1999 and made some interesting discoveries. For one thing, by today’s standards the majority of my early posts look like a day’s worth of Twitter tweets in form and content. In those early days I mostly used this blog as a personal journal documenting my day and occasionally shouting out to my friends. Today there are other services like Twitter and Facebook that handle that type of communications far better anyway.

I don’t post here as much as I did in the early years, but I like to think when I do post the quality has improved a bit. I want to start posting a little bit more regularly here again (and maybe even get to 2000 total posts by the end of the year since I’ve been stuck in the 1700s for literally years), but we’ll have to see.

For that small handful of you that have been following along for all ten years thank you for tuning in. I hope it’s been interesting and at least a little entertaining if nothing else. Here’s to another 10 years!

Axodys.com is long overdue for a WordPress overhaul. I’m a few versions behind and there’s a variety of cruft to clean up.

I’ve installed the latest version of WordPress (2.2) on another site I’ve been working on and it seems like a pretty decent evolution. Based on this summary I found it seems to be a mostly incremental release. That’s not really surprising considering it’s probably the most flexible and powerfull blogging platform around.

Vox is definitely shaping up to be a pretty sweet weblog community, but only being a Starter class participant with only comment posting ability is starting to get a little old. I’m really looking forward to being upgraded to Standard mode and being able to invite my family and friends to join in as well. I think Starter mode will be perfect for a lot of people that are new to blogging like the various members of my extended family, but it’s fairly constraining to me. The real irony is that while generally I do far more post reading than post writing, now that I’m in a situation where I can’t write posts I really want to. Go figure.

At least I’ve got good old Axodys here to channel some of that writing desire into.

In the meantime I guess I’ll keep adding interesting people into my Vox Neighborhood and tooling around all the cool pictures, audio and video that’s popping up. I really like the fact that there’s a ton of public material going up there even though you can keep stuff limited only to friends and family.

Update: Looks like all existing starter accounts will be upgraded to Standard accounts by Monday. Sweet!

The Quicktime trailer to the X-Men movie is out! Not only does it look pretty sweet (Wolverine battles Sabretooth on top of the Statue of Liberty at one point), but for once it’s a preview that doesn’t give anything about the plot away. I’m sure they’ll do that eventually, it’s a long time till July 14.

Yes, I used to collect comic books many moons ago.

No progress yet on the redesign (obviously). I have managed to do some laundry though and I’m also planning to do a little bit of exercising shortly.

I’ve played quite a bit of NCAA Football 99 today on the old Playstation. I’m getting better, but I’ve got a ways to go.

I bought Fireworks 3 and Dreamweaver 3 just prior to my trip, so I now have absolute no excuse for putting off the old site redesign. Looks like there should be plenty of time tomorrow to get that taken care of.

I can’t believe I missed posting on Thursday. I’m definitely slipping.
I have now returned from my whirlwind trip to Salt Lake City. There’s nothing quite like two 12 hour road trips (bookending a 60 hour span) squished in the back seat of a truck that really only seats two comfortably. It was actually a pretty fun trip.

Well, obviously it started working again. I’ll quit complaining.

Great, Blogger is acting weird this morning and telling me it can’t find axodys.com. I of course have no problems going directly to axodys.com.

There’s quite a bit of snow dropping out of the sky this morning. And it hasn’t shown any signs of letting up yet either.

Happy Valentines Day Mary! I love you!

Hmm… so much for inline CSS. I wonder what I’m doing wrong? Ah ha! Fractured tags can kill you.

Hee hee! I found this gem over at deepleap. Takes me right back to those early 80′s days of Choose Your Own Adventure books.

<!–secret message #2 — You’ve unearthed the secret treasure chest! Turn to page 292 to pick the lock. Turn to page 135 to hack at the chest with your axe.–>

Hey, Bump finally has a new design. I’d make snide comments about how long it took after Robert said he was going for a new look, but obviously I need to get my own act together.

Blogger does seem to be a bit more refined when you’re working from a PC with IE 5 as I am now. Lots of various keystroke shortcuts and a windows-esqe gui. I wonder how IE 5 for the Mac is going to be in this regard?

Looks like iCab does indeed work with Blogger. I checked my iCab preferences and discovered that InScript is not activated by default. Turning it on allows you to publish. Cool!

The new version of iCab is out and it supports JavaScript (or InScript in this case with trademarks and such being what they are). Unlike IE 4.5 for the Mac, it actually seems to work with Blogger as I’m using it right this moment (got to love that German engineering). Oops I spoke too soon, I can post stuff, but the publish button dosen’t do anything. That and there’s still no support for CSS. Still, it’s great to see some third party competition for the big two and it is still in Beta.

In the tradition of EvHead, Megnut and countless other weblogs, I’m hoping to do my own redesign sometime this week. This will of course have to be fit in between work, basketball practice, basketball games, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, eating, spending time with my girlfriend, Ferazel’s Wand, updating my weblog, riding my bike, and everything else. No Mary, those items were not listed by order of importance!

Bye-bye free time, my copy of SMAC for the Mac has arrived.

I fully intended to update the old weblog yesterday, but I managed to get pretty busy with everything and didn’t realize until after midnight. When you use Blogger you don’t have the luxury of posting a day after the fact.

I caught an afternoon showing of Magnolia and found it quite satisfying. It certainly wasn’t a movie for the masses, but I enjoyed its quirky interwoven subplots and various dysfunctional characters quite a bit.

Looks like there’s a new Macintosh Python IDE in development called Viper. I haven’t played with the product yet because it seems to have a very limited release at this point, but it certainly sounds intriguing.

I’m hoping to find some time this weekend to play with Python a little on my own. I think I’d also like to start working on a site redesign as well.

While thinking about how unmotivated I feel about going shopping this afternoon I decided to put Google to use on the word “motivation”. Serendipitously I discovered that Duke basketball coach Mike Kryzewski has a motivation section on his basketball coaching site.

With it being the holiday season and everything, this piece by Brad L. Graham had to be included in my weblog!

I’m exploring the idea of moving Axodys fully into Manila. The main question I’m looking at is whether to have my site hosted by one of the new Manila oriented providers or to shell out the money and serve the site off one of my own computers. I can see advantages to both systems and will have to continue to mull things over.

Of course I may just decide to stick with pair.com and blogger for now too. It’s kind of a matter of figuring out where I want to go with Axodys. Any thoughts on the subject are of course welcome.

My Manila site has very little differentiation in focus from this site right now, which I’m finding is somewhat of a problem. Obviously I want to play with Manila more, but I don’t want to neglect Axodys.com either.

I must figure out a solution soon. I suppose one solution I could look at would be to double post daily entries to both locations. Of course my site hosting contract for axodys.com will be coming up for renewal in January. Perhaps I should start looking into the companies that are offering Manila site hosting.

My current situation reminds me of all the Spider-man comic books the folks at Marvel Comics used to have running simultaneously. It’s different now (they relaunched I think), but way back when I still collected comic books there were three titles, Amazing Spider-man, Spectacular Spider-man, and Web of Spider-man.

My site was down for a while today while my site host moved. Seems to be working fine now though.

My new Manila hosted site is here.

Hey, this is super cool! Userland Software is offering two months of Manila use free on their server to people who had Userland accounts prior to 12/01/1999 (this includes me).

Now I have to figure out what kind of weblog I’d like to do. Something more focused than Axodys probably. Hmmmm…

Gonzaga played Cincinnati tough after a poor outing in the first half, but ended up losing 75-68 in Cleveland. Not bad for a game on the road against the number one team in the country.

Today marks the day that I finally blogger-ized my weblog. Obviously there still may be some tweaking to do, but I’m hoping not too much.

It’s been a while since I’ve updated my site consistantly, but I’m planning for that to change. We’ll see what happens.

On an amusing related noted I discovered the bump blog last weekend and enjoyed reading it and its past entries quite a bit. Sure enough, as if some dark conspirancy was plotting to steal joy from my daily existence, it hasn’t been updated since Monday. Oh well, I can relate.

After a two month plus hiatus I seem to be updating my site again.
I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do with it at this point, but I think an overall redesign is probably in order.

I’m in the middle of trying to decide whether to buy this or this. Decisions, decisions…

I’m quite pleased to finally own a DVD player.

I’m not sure if I’m going to make it down to Hoopfest or not today.

Obviously I finally decided to do a little computing and get caught up on my site here which was woefully behind. I think I’m definitely going to go a new direction with it in a few weeks.

I’ve been kind of neglecting my site this week.

Mary and I went on kind of an unusual date last night, but it was really fun. We went over and had dinner with my grandparents at their retirement home and then we played some shuffleboard and miniature golf. I golfed 21 for nine holes to win by 11 strokes, but I think Micah has done it in 19 before.

Mary says she’s going to beat me one of these days and I don’t doubt it for a minute. Maybe we should have a rematch on her home course in the Northtown basement.

I didn’t ride to work today, but I did get in a pretty good ride after I got home. It made me realize that there’s a definite downside to living towards the bottom of the South Hill when you decide to ride up it and you’re out of shape.

Even though the weather has been weird and crappy in May so far I really think this is going to be a good summer overall. Chances are it will go by really quickly as well.

I should really get around to doing some of the site improvements I’ve been mulling over forever. Or I could just go to sleep now. I am kind of tired.

Halfway through yet another week. Yeah baby yeah!

I talked to my friend Felicia for the first time in a couple weeks. She seems to be doing pretty well. She’s going to Africa on a three week mission trip with her church at the end of April. I imagine she’ll have a lot of interesting stories to tell when she gets back.

I’ve been thinking some about things I want to do with my site here, but I haven’t implemented anything yet. Maybe tomorrow.

At work it looks like I should be able to manage the school website using Frontier and hopefully we will be using it to serve our website in house as well. That would mean discussion groups and a lot of other cool dynamic things. Here’s a great explanation of Frontier 6 by Matt Neuberg.

I’ve finally started improving my site a bit. Now all my entries to date are available (January, February, and March).

Yes, there will be other areas besides the main page eventually.

I’ve started fiddling with the sidebar and I’m running up against the ever so annoying browser implementation differences. IE 4.5 for the Mac doesn’t recognize the fact that I’m overriding the sidebar link color (it should be white, not blue), while Netscape Navigator 4.07 gets that part right, but munges the sides of my nested table. As Dave Winer always says Still diggin’!

Found a fix for things.

Tonight at 5:30pm Ferris plays G-Prep in the Spokane Arena.

Today has been a somewhat uneventful day so far. I think I will probably continue to work on my site design. The left hand column is still looking a tad boring.

This is my home node on Everything.

Today was a fine day for general relaxing and reading. Unfortunately that meant nothing in particular happened with my site here.

I have not worked on my site here much at all this weekend. Sorry Nichole. Of course once she gets her’s going I’m going to give her a hard time too.

Find the answer to your questions here.

Watching the Super Bowl was kind of interesting this year. I went over to Dale’s house. His daughter Breanna ended up being more entertaining then the game for me.

I’ve been doing a variety of research on things I can do to improve my site at Script Meridian and webmonkey.

I went to The Thin Red Line with my mom and sister tonight. It was good.

Today I discovered that Axodys is actually a weblog.

More weblogs: Camworld, Hack the Planet, and Memepool.

Carmen(Nichole) is of course on my case to get my site here improved. She is of course right. I need to keep plugging away. Perhaps someday Axodys will approach the stature of the numerous spiffy weblogs out there.

Thanks to my recent acquisition of a new 128MB dimm my iMac is now happily cruising along at 160MB!

I’m finally starting to make a little progress on my site here. Things are still pretty rough, but at least I’m getting a feel for how I want to do them.

My plan is to generate some kind of outline renderer that will format everything into table based blocks. Time to start learning UserTalk I guess.

Nichole has been on my case to get something going with my site. That’s good actually because it’s kept me motivated to get my act together. So thanks Nichole… and you make good brownies too by the way. My family came by and brought me some chocolate cake this afternoon. It was tasty! While they were visiting we also talked about their plans to purchase one of the new flavored iMacs. I think they’re going to get a blue one and I’m going to sell them my 64MB so-dimm and buy myself a new 128MB. That should leave both of our iMacs in really good shape.