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More Everything hacking. This time it was setting up some nifty themes. In the process, I installed gimp1.2, which is a definite improvement(yes, I know they're up above 1.3). Did some photoediting too; we've got logoes<tangent>hmm, logos is apparently not like potatoes. Call me Danforth.</tangent> suitable for each theme. :)

Next up is to try getting the voting nodeball to work. Probably non-trivial; but it would be worth it.

Also seemed to have some wierdness going on with mod-perl; but the problems went away when I apt-get removed perl-5.005. (I don't know why it was still installed beside 5.6.1. It just was). Hopefully there was nothing else wierd going on.

ntp kicks ass; I can be sure that my assignment will be submitted not less than 20 seconds before the deadline.

I also wrote a README for sched; now people will know WTF it is without reading the code.

played more exult. I really wish that when flying over the mountains, the things inside the mountain couldn't hurt you. And it keeps crashing. Lots of fun regardless. :)

somehow, none of the above thoughts were what prompted me to write a diary entry. :greps recentlog... Nope, nothing. Oh bother.

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?

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>

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.