Long time Mac columnist Don Crabb passed away yesterday. Roger Ebert, his good friend and colleague, wrote this obituary in the Chicago Sun-Times

Today’s strip at Penny Arcade could probably be best described as Squirrel Wars.

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.

Ether Life, another Internet comic that I like, is back for the new year with version 2.0.

Cmdr Taco and Hemos over at Slashdot tell all about going public.

Mindvision has a new application launcher out for the Mac called MindControl. I’ve been trying it out this morning and I have to admit that I like it a lot so far. I love being able to launch everything simply by typing in a few keystrokes.

Macintouch has a review of the new Apple iTools. They look fairly cool, especially for new users. Unfortunately they require MacOS 9 and I’m sticking with 8.6 for now (with MacOS X coming out this summer I’d rather spend the $80 on something else).

I enjoyed the latest Penny Arcade quite a bit, especially since my girlfriend has red hair too.

I played with Fireworks some this morning and managed to come up with my first animated GIF for the weblog ads at Scripting News. I really like Fireworks a lot. The drawing/painting combination is extremely powerful.

I also added the little script that pulls up random weblog ads and hopefully they’re appearing up in the right hand corner.

Lists, lists… everywhere lists! Seems like everybody is coming out of the woodwork up with some list or other to ring in the new millenium. In that vein here is a list of lists:

• Slashdot has a list of new years resolutions from various people with some form of connection to their site.
• Here’s one person’s list of the top ten centuries of the millenium.
• If you want to keep on top of Y2K on an international level CNN has a list of worldwide Y2K sites.
• Wired has a list of their tech people’s predictions for the coming year.
• Suck has a list of comic strips they’d like to see go the way of Peanuts in the coming year and offer suitable replacements as well.
• Here’s a random list of famous people’s quotations.
• A list of the 100 most influential people in cinema.
• A list of the 100 most influential people in history and their religions.
• Almost last and certainly not least, here’s a list of cool stuff at Penny-Arcade, my own personal favorite local Internet comic!
• Finally, a list of all things Mahir related.

I’m thinking maybe I should come up with my own list. Hmm…

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.

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!

MacCentral has the latest word on the Unreal Tournament release. I’m leaning towards buying it when it comes out, although there is a lot of other far more useful software that I may decide to spend my money on before then like Fireworks, REALbasic, or Frontier 6.1.

I caught most of the second half of the Colts Dolphins game and enjoyed it quite a bit. You’ve got to love a close football game like this one. I was especially interested in the Colts after reading this cover article on Payton Manning in Sports Illustrated a couple weeks back. Unfortunately it’s not available on line.

It’s a small net world! I discovered not just one, but two nifty Washington State based Internet comics. Ether Life is the creation of Seattle resident Zach Stroum, while Penny Arcade is the product of two talented fellow Spokane-ites who go by the handles Gabriel and Tycho Brahe. Both comics are very computer geek/gaming oriented, so I found them especially amusing and topical given my recent renewed interest in Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament.

Both Ferris boys basketball teams won yesterday. Central Valley beat G-Prep 55-43 to avenge their lone loss of the season.

I’m headed for Seattle this afternoon, but I anticipate being able to update everything from afar.

Everybody should begin their day with a dose of Sluggy Freelance. Pete Abrams is a genius!

I’m seeing things much clearer now.

8/15/05 Update: Incidentally, I just noticed as I was fixing the above link that they have a model called the “Gilman” now which looks like a variation on the model that I bought six years ago.

I have never been obsessed with chess. [via PeterMe]