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.

Ferazel’s Wand, has been sucking up a fair amount of my free time since its arrival in the mail earlier this week. In my opinion it’s by far Ambrosia’s best work to date. Great characters, great graphics, great music, great… well you get the idea.

Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri for the Mac shipped yesterday. Is my copy in one of these vans? I hope so.

I was pretty into the original Everything when I first heard about it on Slashdot (created over 100 hundred entries I think), but I stopped going regularly some time ago. I was vaguely aware that there was some kind of Everything 2 in the works, but I never paid much attention until this week. I’m looking forward to playing with it further.

I’ve been playing the new mac Alpha Centauri demo the last couple days and it’s definitely pretty cool. I definitely prefer strategy games (whether real time or turn based) to first person shooter games like Quake III Arena or Unreal Tournament.

This is too cool! Pysol is a cross platform Solitaire program written entirely in Python. Bye bye free time!

The Seahawks lost today and still managed to make the playoffs. It was kind of funny rooting for the hated Raiders to beat the Chiefs in overtime. I definitely didn’t think it was going to happen for a while there.

I downloaded the Fireworks 3.0 and Dreamweaver 3.0 demos today. I’m considering purchasing Fireworks and possibly Dreamweaver as well. The cool thing about Macromedia is that they let you play with their full products for 30 days.

Another day, another weblog entry…

My friend Steve is in town so it’s time for some network computer gaming! He’s been talking up the Mac release of Heroes of Might & Magic III and based on Inside Mac Gaming’s preview it looks fairly appealing to me.

Tycho and Gabriel, two fellow Spokane-ites best known for Penny-Arcade, have a new take on Dickens’ Christmas Carol over at Gamespy. Amusing reading for the computer inclined as usual!

It’s looking like we’re going to miss out on the classic white Christmas here in Spokane based on all the weather forecasts I’ve been hearing and seeing online. For some reason I was expecting quite a bit of snow this year during the winter months, but it certainly hasn’t happened yet.

One interesting thing I noticed about Mozilla Build 12 for the Macintosh yesterday is that it seems to render font point sizes at the same size most Windows machines see things. I’m not sure if that’s a bug or a feature. It does make reading a surprising number of sites easier, Eatonweb being the first that pops into my head.

Work today was totally dead. That wasn’t too bad because it gave me a chance to fiddle around with Python. It’s definitely a nifty scripting language.

Even cooler I stumbled across PUB (Python Universe Builder) a set of Python modules for creating interactive fiction games. I haven’t had a chance to experiment with the modules yet, but it looks promising. Probably not as rich and full featured as TADS or Inform, the two major IF oriented languages I’m familiar with, but intriguing none the less.

I’ve always wanted to create (write?) a text adventure along the lines of the classic Infocom games. Someday…

After an evening filled with shopping I am nearly done. Yes!

At last Friday is here! Work was pretty dead today (finals are over), but I got a really great meal (excellent value) at Cafe Roma, a local Italian restaurant, when we had a goodbye lunch for a staff member who’s leaving.

In gaming news the Mac Quake 3 Arena Demo has finally arrived. Download all 45+ MBs at your leisure. It also looks like the retail version should be available in early January 2000.

A Penny-Arcade solution to the UT vs Q3 debate!

Have you made your Y2K preparations yet? I’m planning to do full backups of our two main NT Servers at work before shutting them down for the weekend, but I’m not planning to be in the building that weekend. I heard on the radio this morning that 70% of people polled planned to stay home on New Years Eve and hotels have had to drastically discount the pricing on their holiday packages just to attract guests. Two weeks to go!

Webmonkey has a nifty new article discussing the sweet new features version 4 is bringing to PHP land.

While listening to some talk radio during my lunch I got an interesting perspective on the six year old Cuban boy situation. The guest on the program I was listening to was a Cuban American woman who had immigrated to the United States back in 1960. Her feeling was that any parent, especially one living in Cuba now and that truly loved their child, would sacrifice their happiness if it meant their child could have a better life and the freedoms the United States provides. Her speculation was that the boy’s father was a pawn Fidel Castro was using for his own polical machinations.

The thing that keeps going through my mind is that his mother made the ultimate sacrifice and if Elian is returned to Cuba that will have been in vain.

The Quake 3 Arena vs. Unreal Tournament debate continues! Shawn McClung, the 23 year old teenager responsible for Slightly North of Tomorrow has his take on the whole deal.

It’s looking like this weekend is going to be a big Christmas shopping weekend for me. With high school basketball practice or games immediately after work (I volunteer coach at the high school my dad coaches and teaches at) Monday through Friday it’s been hard to find the time to shop. I can’t believe we’re halfway through December already.

For the XML inclined Mac users out there, simple/CHAOS has released an alpha version XML editor called SixPack. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to play with it this afternoon.

Today turned out to be largely uneventful. It was a pretty nice day weather-wise, but I ended up just relaxing mostly. It’s good to do that once in a while.

Admittedly I did play a lot of StarCraft today! I’ve only got a couple levels left now.

I got in a fair amount of computer gaming this weekend which was pretty fun. I actually finally advanced to the Protoss levels and beat the first couple of those.
We had four of our Macs networked together out at the lake, but we never actually got around to networked StarCraft. We did get in some serious Marathon action though.

Mary made it home safely last night, now we just have to figure out what we’re going to do tomorrow.

I played some StarCraft for the first time in a couple weeks and I actually made some serious progress on the level I was stuck on. That definitely left me with a good feeling because I had felt somewhat frustrated up to this point.

Today I took a little trip to the local CompUSA and picked up a few items. I now have a 25 pack of recordable CD’s, a new USB mouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel, and a cool book about color on the web.

I finally beat the pesky level in StarCraft that I was stuck on thanks to a helpful tidbit from a StarCraft strategy guide. The next level has a good plot twist as well!

I went to the Trek website to look at bicycles. I like the looks of the 7300 and 7500 hybrid models.

I successfully burned my first cdr last night and then I optimized my hard drive. Now I need to try my hand at music cds.

I was supposed to have lunch with my family at my grandparents, but unfortunately my grandpa had stomach flu and we had to cancel our plans. I hope he’s feeling better.

I ended up spending my day working on my apartment some more, napping, reading various people’s online journals, and of course playing StarCraft.

I successfully completed all the Human levels on Starcraft last night. Now I get to try my hand at being a Zerg. As Steve says, It’s a whole new paradigm.

Steve is in town for the weekend so we tried our hand at multiplayer StarCraft this evening with mixed results. Basically the computer would either completely gang up on us or be really whimpy.

Steve’s dad had a multibutton mouse, and I think I may have to pick up a multi-button usb mouse tomorrow because they’re definitely handy.

Anyone notice how my site has been neglected since Tuesday? Blame StarCraft. The mac version finally came out and I’ve been playing it a lot.