John McCain came to campus this morning for a Town Meeting less than a block from my building. Unfortunately I had to work during the whole thing, but I did catch a couple minutes of the televised coverage. It was interesting to see the effects of three or four hundred more people than usual converging on the COG.

Looks like I was born in the year of the sound bite.

This David K. Every column over at MacWeek has an interesting comparison of the value of Apple stock vs. Dell stock. 2000 is going to be a fascinating year for Apple with everything they’ve got in the works.

I’ve been working on Filemaker Pro here at work quite a bit in the last few months. Its simplicity and ease of use makes it well suited for various record keeping tasks we have here in the Gonzaga School of Education. There are definitely times when I wish working with it was a little bit more like traditional programming, but overall I’m quite satisfied with it.

It snowed just enough last night to make the morning drive to work a little bit dicey. Thankfully I only live 10 minutes away (under normal conditions of course). I decided to take the freeway thinking it might be a little more clear than the side streets, but the exit ramp ended up being a bigger mess than I anticipated.

REALbasic is definitely a nifty development tool for the Macintosh. I’ve been playing with it off and on since it was first introduced, but I hadn’t worked with version 2.0 until today. Cool stuff!

I may have to pick up Matt Neuberg’s new book.

I’m looking forward to the release of Frontier 6.1. I’m hoping to use it at work for the School of Education’s web site. The manila “edit this page” functionality is definitely intriguing.

It’s finally raining here in Spokane after a very dry September and October.

Image courtesy The Weather Channel.
Of course at work today I had to haul a printer all the way across campus and then back again in the rain. And it especially figures since I just washed my car for the first time in ages on Saturday. Ahh well. I love rain.

Still no bike. Sigh

I got to sit by Father Spitzer, the Gonzaga University President, at lunch today. He’s a pretty friendly, high energy kind of guy. He also has a definite geeky quality about him, which is both endearing and disconcerting when you consider who he is.

Breanna and Kellie came to visit Dale at lunchtime, so I got my weekly dose of Veggie Tales. Breanna is definitely a little jumping bean these days.

What a nice day weather wise. I wish I had my bike already. I’d be doing some serious riding around town. There are lots of places that I’d like to explore that I’ve never been to in all my years in Spokane.

Everybody cleared out of work early it seemed like. I left a little early myself.

College campuses always seem to come alive during the spring and GU is no exception. Students are out throwing frisbees and having fun soaking up the rays. It’s nice to be a part of that every day.

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.

Today was kind of annoying at work. Dale and I have yet to successfully resolve all the printing issues that go along with working in a mixed platform environment.

GU took care of business tonight and rolled over Santa Clara on their way to a berth in the NCAA tournament. Excellent!

Hopefully Ferris will do equally well tomorrow against Ike.

My cool html color palette poster arrived today. Now I just need to get a frame for it.

It looks like I’m going to be taking over the GU School of Education’s web site.

Tonight was the first round of the district playoffs. The Ferris boys had a bye tonight since we finished second in league so my dad and I went and scouted the Gonzaga Prep vs. Shadle Park game. It was tied at the half, but Prep pulled away and won 62-52. They will be our opponent on Thursday.