Older blog entries for mobius (starting at number 143)

4 Oct 2001 (updated 4 Oct 2001 at 06:19 UTC) »

Javascript for 15 minutes. New page on my homepage, helping all the larvals out there. no link here. back to work for me. <whipsnap>

Hacked a personal photo feature into my Everything site. In with the user bio. Nifty feature, not too hard to implement.

Oh yeah, homework...

Java java java. Rwrote everything; it mostly works now. Big bug in collision detection though. I need to figure out how to keep the objects from overlapping; they are counted as colliding manymany times, thus sending one off at incredible speeds.

"I'm sure the Nazis called the french resistance terrorists too." -- seen here?

30 Sep 2001 (updated 1 Oct 2001 at 02:42 UTC) »

Learning Java today. Assignment in it is due by friday. This is not a Java course; we're expected to know Java from the prereq, which I didn't take. Whee.

At least I'm making good progress. Mostly everything is set up, now I'm getting into the actual logic.

later: It does stuff. Not sure if it's right yet, and I know it's fugly. But hey, the logic is fairly simple. I just need to add the graphics part to see if I'm completely wrong or not.

Why must every language have it's own ideas of what operators should do what? Yes, some are stupid. But Why should I have to remember that commas are list separators except in the case where there are two of them in a row? And what if I have an empty item in my list?

Mostly, what's wrong with having "+" or "." be the cat operator? + makes sense in that you're getting the sum of two strings. </rant inspiredBy=sej>

28 Sep 2001 (updated 28 Sep 2001 at 01:16 UTC) »

Stayed up til 3am last night; it's been a while. Maybe I should start drinking coffee again. Though concentrated line juice can wake you up in a hurry... I didn't manage to come up with a [correct] algorithm for one of the questions even after all that; this morning in my first class I came up with the answer. At least last night wasn't wasted; I used a bunch of what I'd already done. Quite elegant in the end too.

Apparently my algorithms course will be delving into network flow soon. Cool.

Too bad I'm sick; I'd be having a great time.

Peace.

No time! I'm late! I'm very very late!

Cantanker: are you proposing a theory of conservation of punctuation?

In other news, my life is incredibly busy. I've got things happening pretty much every night, plus homework and an attempt at a social life. I'm having lots of fun doing so, at least. :)

my ISP cut off all port 80 traffic due to nimba; thanks to a friend my domains are back up. [Mostly]

New worm exploiting IIS. Tons of hits. blacklist anyone asking for cmd.exe or root.exe.

summary for jingoists: FOAD.

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