I haven't posted in a while, so here's an update.

• Game coding: I'm writing yet another game. This time I'm working with some talented artists, so who knows. I won't say much about it except that it will feature audible explosions in the vacuum of space. Here's a debugging screenshot of an octree (that stuff really helps). I wrote a firing pattern scripting system, inspired on BulletML, but using Scheme. Here's a screenshot of an editor for a 2D shmup, featuring my hacked OpenGL GUI toolkit.

• Prolog: I played a bit with Prolog, after reading on the 5th Generation Computer project. A really interesting piece of computing history I didn't know about. Prolog is mind-explodey.

• Learning Japanese: it's apparent that my crappy English is at a local minimum and will hardly get any better, so I decided to try something different. Memorized the kana, thanks to Kanatest (I should send the authors a postcard). I'm learning on my own, using this book/CD set, which isn't bad. I'll try to take the JLPT Level 4 by the end of the year.

I'm also studying for a few more Sun certifications, but I guess that counts as work.

Mindless hyperlink propagation

• Wolfram Alpha: I hope this goes Skynet and takes over the world.
• Metacrap: oldie but goldie by Cory Doctorow.
• Fast Geometry Hashing for Automated Astrometry: solving the interesting algorithmic problem of figuring out from which part of the skies a picture of some stars comes from.