So throughout the cruise, Karen was journalling in her Little Red Book. I intended on writing up entries each evening and posting them when able, but with my lack of a power supply, I was forced to journal on paper, and I'm just not as good at that as I used to be. I'm used to thinking just slow enough to type. Thinking slowly enough to write longhand is just too hard. Maybe I should parctice.

Anyhow, the point is that Karen's Little Red Book (with beautiful Chinese designs in gold all over it, making me feel a touch guilty each time I'd look at it that it wasn't being used for its intended purpose) existed as her blog for the week of the cruise. Now she's making good on that designation by transcribing it, day by day, giving a more thorough accounting of our cruise than I ever could. I'm enjoying reading it, reliving each day as I go.

Anyhow, the short of it is that those of you who feel shortchanged by the recent dearth of Fresh Fury Fun should head over to Karen's and read the daily accounting of our Mexican cruise. That, along with the photos I posted yesterday, should paint a pretty good picture of the trip.

As for me, tomorrow me and five of my classmates will be representing Carnegie Mellon in this year's CHI Interactionary competition. I've said ridiculously little about it so far, and had better blog by morning, so you'll feel some of the anxiety that I feel at the prospect of competing in the industry's only timed Computer-Human Interaction team competition in front of most of the leaders of the industry, judged by Jared Spool, Terry Winograd, and other notables.

Ack!

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Hey! I won the Antibloggie for Most Unfinished Projects!!!

I'll write more about that later! ;-)

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Hey! the deadline for voting for the 2003 AntiBloggies has been extended until tomorrow! I'm up for "Most Unfinished Projects" and if you scroll down a few posts you'll see why.

Anyhow, you can vote once per hour so even if you already showed your love and support, go back and do it again! :-) Ya know, if you want to, and all...

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The AntiBloggies, answer to the Bloggies, has published it's list of categories, letting you vote for the most deserving sites.

If ever there was an award Fury was cut out for it's Most Unfinished Projects. To refresh the mind of the gentle reader:

1. Randompixel (aka Cameo)
2. AOLiza
3. Metacookie
4. QWER
5. Blogger Purity Survey (2001 Edition!)
6. Fury 4.0
7. AIMtunes
8. Fury - Mobile Edition
9. Public version of FuryNodes
10. Fury MicroBlog
11. Underblog
12. LogMusic
13. Tao Dice
14. The Mara Story
15. The Butterfly Orgasm Story
16. Trip log for The Kevin and Ammy Cross-Country Show
17. So very, very many galleries sitting in iPhoto
18. Things I've forgotten but will doubtlessly be reminded of by you
19. More stuff I can't even talk about yet...

So go vote! You can vote once every 60 minutes, so vote early, vote often!!!

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I'm sitting on IRC, watching the IRC simulcast of the 2003 Bloggie Awards, being held in Austin at SXSW...

I'm up against Metafilter, Kuro5hin, and a few others, so my chances are slim, but here's to watching, anyhow!

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Just for fun (okay, and procrastination): Choose your own font for Fury.

If you choose a custom font, make sure you spell it right, or it won't work!

(how obvious is it that I'm just pimping myself for the best programmed website bloggie?)

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Looks like it's that time of year again: Nikolai's posted the finalists for the 2003 Bloggie Awards.

I completely missed the whole nominations process, living in my own little world, but apparently a bunch of you didn't miss it, as Fury got nominated for 'Best Programming of a Weblog Site,' alongside Textism, ScriptyGoddess, Metafilter, and Kuro5hin.

I remember when this happened last year I felt compelled to quickly introduce new functionality, to prove (to myself more than anyone else) that Fury was worthy of competing with MF and K5.

So of course this year's no different. I've got some functions I've been working on for a few weeks and I'm about ready to incorporate them anyhow, and the unexpected Bloggies is just a convenient motivator.

Okay, enough of that. Go vote!

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The 2002 Bloggies finalists are in! Happily, Fury has been named a finalist in "Best Programmed Blog" and "Best Non-blog Content."

The first one I'm really happy about, especially since I'm in the company of notable sites like MetaFilter, and weblog-software developers Noah Grey, and DollarShort.org. Mena (dollarshort) brings up an interesting point about whether sites built on public engines should be in the 'best programming' category (wow Mena is altruistic!) but that's not for me to say.

Actually, the truly unexpected honor is getting nominated for best non-blog content. I started shifting into more personal storytelling a few months back, and I can't tell you guys how warming it is to know that you enjoy it. The distinction between a blog and a journal is a fuzzy one to me, but it amazes me that I'd get recognition as someone who's bridging the gap.

So go vote! And more importantly, go visit some of the other sites that people thought were good enough to warrant such recognitions. I like to think of the Bloggies as a swap meet where all the edges of the Blogging readership come together and say "This is cool, and have you seen that?"

The best part is finding out about other great stuff out there, and maybe have a few new people enjoying what I write. That, to me, means more than any award could. Thank you.

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Hey! The Bloggie Awards are back for 2002!

The categories have been announced, and for the next three days (until Sunday) they're accepting nominations for the various categories.

(so here's the part where I lobby for votes)

Sure I may not have the funniest content, Fury may not be the best-kept secret, or the best Asian site (err, yeah) but I think it just might stand a chance in the category of "best programming of a weblog." If you agree, heck, why not nominate me? Those who are nominated most often make it as finalists, and who wouldn't want that?

Obligatory bulletpoint list of cool things techie things about Fury:

• The Timeline
• Fury 3.1 codebase, which brought Read by Topic, and enhanced google indexing among other things.
• Cell-o-scopes
• Qwer.org (explained here)
• Dynamic Look Ahead module
• Pseudo-static links which are nice, short, and dynamic.
• Half a billion whiz-bang sitelets in beta (Metacookie being a particularly relevant example, war as a timely one, and AOLiza as a timeless one)
• and all the normal niceties like permalinks, comments, and archives...

And that doesn't even get into the coolest innovation, 'Furynodes', an object-oriented, on-the-fly page rendering system so cool and dynamic it was used in the recent reprogramming of LinkStew and the forthcoming redesign of In Passing... Soon I'll have it documented and make a public release for those who are interested in a really powerful content-delivery and management system built on top of PHP.

Okay, that's my speil. I hope you agree it's worthy of a nomination, so head on over and nominate away! And while you're there, I'd also recomment LinkStew in the same category, for Benjy's supercool 'possibly related entries' mechanism, as well as In Passing for "Best Topical Weblog" and Wockerjabby for "Best American Weblog."

Okay, all done whoring for now. I'll talk about something totally differnt later: Reflections of an Expo (many of which have nothing to do with the MWSF Expo at all, but that's where I was when I had a thought and scribbled it onto paper).

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Out There: One man's search to find the funniest person on the Internet, a new book by Henry Alford, is set for release on June 12th. I got a review copy in the mail this week, and found that AOLiza has been deemed the second-funniest person on the Internet (at least that's the opinion of Mr. Alford and his panel of experts family members.

It's a great book and everyone should get it, if for no other reason than that it talks about sites that are funnier than AOLiza and it has a cool bright green cover.

Speaking of AOLiza, well... I have some new convos, and they'l be here very soon. If you go over there, you can add your email address to the list, so I can let you know when new content is up.

The other big news (well, big is such a subjective term (but then, so is news)) is that I'll be making AvantGo gateways, and possibly WAP and/or Tellme gateways, for both AOLiza and Fury.com, so you can catch up on the latest as you commute to or from work.

I re-activated my Omnisky account for my Palm V CDPD modem, so I'll even be able to post while commuting to or from work. Win-win!

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AOLiza was selected as a Yahoo Pick of the Week today! Keep those hits and letters coming!

Finishing up a redesign of the AOLiza page. The original design , while neat and innovative (It's still okay for other people to call things innovative, right Microsoft? You haven't trademarked the word yet?), it didn't work well when there were more than ten or twelve conversations there. The new layout will be more informative and make navigation a lot easier. It'll either be up Monday or Wednesday.

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So the winners of the 5k award were announced today. War took 8th place overall, and 5th in Concept and Originality.

I got to meet some fun people along the way, and its a nice doohicky to keep around the site.

I'm already gearing up for next years contest, but what I'm really excited about is next year's perl poetry contest.

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Big paper due tomorrow. Too much to do. No time to write.

5k winners announced tomorrow. I didn't come in first, but I still got some accolades (and am in the 99.5th percentile of entries!)

More to come... tomorrow!

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In addition to the 5k award, to be announced this week (and that I just won't shut up about) I discovered today that the latest site I tech-led, Petstore.com, is a finalist in the Clio Awards to be announced on May 23rd.

Anyone want to fund a jaunt to New York?

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I'm going for my belt test today (green tips, Taekwondo). I actually thought it was supposed to be last Thursday, and that I'd have to miss it, so I haven't been studying/practicing at all, and now I'm cramming. ("Is right backstance with the right foot forward, or left?") Anyhow, to further complicate, I don't even have a yellow belt. That is, I've earned one, but I never actually went and bought one, so I've got to see if I can find one amidst my studying in the next 4 hours, or borrow someone's for the test.

Augh!

Also, tomorrow is IKEA day. Emily and I are going to see how much of Sweden we can fit in our respective cars.

Lastly, the winners of the 5k award are going to be revealed on Monday. I can't wait! (For those who haven't taken a look yet, check out my entry, War.)

Cross your fingers and pray for the apocolypse.

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