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?

I was starting to think Etherlife was never going to be funny again after the last couple weeks. Thankfully Zach came back strong this week and allayed my fears. I especially enjoyed today’s bit of geek humor.

Mozilla Milestone 13 is ready to rumble. Hopefully this version will have fixed some of the keyboard command issues for the Macintosh.

I’m still annoyed that IE 5 for the Macintosh isn’t ready to go yet.

The live webcast is working surprisingly well. I guess that Akamai network technology really works. The new iDrive technology is fairly intriguing. Looks like they’re going to be rolling out Mac OS X throughout the next year with sales starting during the summer (presumably around MacWorld).

Wow! MacOS X looks great! Makes me want to run out and become and Apple Developer so I can get the new betas later this year.

The only disappointing item in the presentation was that the Microsoft Rep sounded like IE 5 for the Macintosh won’t be out until the end of January. I guess their official press release will be in a half hour.

One new IE 5 feature that is definitely a good thing is that there is a mode to make pages render at the 96 dpi industry standard and end the micro font rendering woes that occur when reading PC generated pages. I noticed Mozilla build 12 for the Mac does the same thing a while back as well. Standardization is always a good thing!

I’ve successfully connected to the live web broadcast of Steve Job’s keynote. Boy, do they play some cheezy music while we’re waiting for it to begin.

I am really looking forward to the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer. Hopefully it will be released today sometime, rather than later in the week. I checked the Microsoft Mactopia, but there was no sign as of yet. Of course Steve Job’s keynote address isn’t for another half hour anyway.

Lest everyone think I’m a freakish Microsoft loving Mac user I should point out I’m also really looking forward to the next version of Netscape Communicator, although I wish it was going to be a standalone browser rather than integrated with composer and email. Mozilla build 12 is definitely promising and if the final product works better for me than IE I will make the switch.

Right now I prefer to use IE 4.5 for the Mac, but I’m forced to use Netscape Communicator as well because it works better with Blogger. Communicator also crashes more and seems to want use its own, older Java run time rather than Apple’s newer improved model (which IE uses).

Everything seems to be up and running in Blogger again. I definitely like having a bigger space to input my entries, and being at the top is of the page is better as well. Unfortunately it looks, like IE 4.5 for the Mac isn’t handling the new upgrade very well.

Coolnesss! Blogger is getting an upgrade around 12pm PST today. Hopefully everything will go smoothly and they’ll be back up around 3pm PST as planned.

David K. Every has a new column on MacWeek discussing, “the i-Bench, a new benchmark for measuring Internet performance that PC Magazine recently deployed to prove that PCs are dramatically faster than Macs when tackling some Web-related tasks.”

I haven’t had a chance to check out the i-Bench myself, but I’m somewhat curious about it. I know that on the Mac Communicator is quite a bit quicker at rendering pages than Explorer. Of course Communicator on LinuxPPC blows both away.

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.