Adam confirms reports that several TV networks are in a bidding war for “Adam’s Family”. A docu-drama about his family and their life.

The Macintosh News Network reports that Snood 3.0 beta available for download. From the sound of it, the beta is still a work in progress, but will run on OS X. This game has sucked up large chunks of time on my PC in the past.

I’d just gotten through the first part of Utena. And finally more of it is due to be released in the next few months.

80211b News reports:

New Wi-Fi public hot spot listing site: Noel Jackson has started up OpenNodes.com, a site that will make an attempt at collecting self-reported design-to-be-open Wi-Fi nodes.

I keep hoping there are more options for me than just going down to Starbucks.

Speaking of LiveJournal, the NY Times has an article on A Site to Pour Out Emotions, and Just About Anything Else. It’s actually a bit better then I expected. But it does briefly mention online Journals in relation to blogs:

All kinds of people maintain pages on LiveJournal, but the site’s own statistics show that its users tend to be 15 to 21 and predominantly female. Many people who have pages at LiveJournal or similar sites like DiaryLand maintain that the form is distinct from Weblogs, or blogs. The journals tend to be more inwardly focused and offer fewer links than blogs, although the categories overlap.

I still maintain that online journals are a subset of the whole blog world. While a lot of the blogs that are popular tend to be full of links outwardly focused, there are also a lot that look a heck of a lot like an online journal. So I still don’t feel that it can be considered something seperate.

The article also briefly mentions what I think is one of LJ’s strongest features. The ability to have posts that only certain friends of yours can read. I’ve thought of having some kind of ‘friends only’ part of my site, but then I’d have to write all the code for it and I’m way too lazy. This is one thing a closed system like LJ lets you do.

Alan Woods. “Blame someone else and get on with your life.” [Quotes of the Day]

Well, it’s mostly done. I figured I’d put it up and online to help inspire me to keep working on it. My next step is making sure that the page fully validates for XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I may have to do some macro hacking (unfortunately) for the Radio parts of it that don’t close img tags.

I have to say that CSS is really kind of fun to work with. There are still some things that I’m learning, but I can really see the power of it now.

Oh yeah, and I haven’t gotten to anything beyond the main weblog. I’ll slowly convert stuff over in the next few days.

I’ve been a little slow on the blogging lately. Mostly because I’m working on a new layout done with XHTML and CSS. I’m learning a lot of this as I go. The XHTML part hasn’t been too bad so far. The CSS education has been provided by Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours by Kynn Bartlett.

Also, since I know Kynn, here’s a bit of a plug for the book.. If you’re interested in CSS at all, or are someone like me who kind of figured out how they worked, this book is amazing. It’s shown me where many assumptions I have about CSS are wrong. It has also helped explain a lot of the parts of CSS that I quite fully understood.

So, hopefully we’ll be pushing a new layout sometime soon that is XHTML 1.0. My biggest problem right now is some of the Radio macros produce tags that aren’t right (like img tags).

Adam recently started adding audio to his blog. It’s something I’d actually thought of a while back when I was trying to define just what ‘life – listed chronologically’ was. In my case, I couldn’t decide exactly how I wanted to do it. Yesterday, He wrote:

I tried to explain to Patricia yesterday that I’m not really sure what the value of audioblogging is either. It’s more like an audio-book than radio at this point. I find myself actually trying to sound more like some of my favorite book-readers (I’m an Audible.com shopper). Can’t explain why, it just feels right. Similarly, the feedback on the audio-postings is still 100% positive, so onward we go I guess! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

I can think of one value of audioblogging. It opens up how disabled people can experience a blog. While there are screen reader programs out there for blind web users, this would add a much more personal feeling to a weblog as opposed to just hearing a computerized voice reading out what it sees on the page. Or, going with the book-reader concept, I could download Adam’s blog to my iPod to listen to in the car on my way to work.