Sorry for lack of update yesterday, I was quite tired because of too little sleep and it's same today. So briefly about yesterday, basically I was attending the Czech Math Olympics - category P (Programming). It was the regional round, and there usually aren't too many people there from this region --- we've been six or seven at best. It's the Computer Science style, that is not those stupid \"Code silly mouse-clicking detecting gadget in half an hour\" practical exercices (I've been on few as well). You had just paper and you ought to describe your thoughts and write your program there. The tasks weren't easy.

Actually, one thing I really hate is writing computer programs (in C or Pascal or another computer language) on paper. It just seems really stupid. They are here to program computers, therefore they should be written into computer. On the other side, they were mostly really just suplementary to the algorithm description, which was the main challenge.

The last year, I thought I did it rather well. Then my best rank was IIRC five of ten points in one task or so. Thus I'm better quite sceptical this time, but I still believe I did better than the last year. I certainly didn't reach the most optimal solutions in all tasks (at least in two I know I'm being suboptimal), but they all should work. Let's see. It's quite important because if you're good enough to progress to the national round, you're also automatically enrolled to MFF of CUNI CZ. That's really tempting and a good motivation. Maybe I'll describe some of the problems from the regional round later if I'll be in mood and have enough time.

Ihaquer confirmed my 2.2 theories, it is indeed not vulnerable.

We've been celebrating the Orthodox Christmas this night.

I'm currently mostly working on BlueCode, chattering on IRC, reviewing few ELinks patches (and I implemented some really simple quick'n'dirty <object> tag support) and now I should be sleeping. Tommorow I'm gonna visit my beloved school again.

I should implement paging of my weblog page (it's already over 100kb), and I should maybe insert some small automagic footer to the XML-RPC message sent to Advogato that my real weblog is elsewhere and only selected entries are cc'd to there (or here, depending on your POV ;). But I'll do that after I will actually sometimes submit some non-technical entry which would have nothing to do on Advogato.

Now I should yet have a look at the History stuff we're supposed to take an exam from tommorow. Bah. (Roughly) 1400 --- 1620. That's gonna be fun. And I should finish the missing bits of my seminary works. I'm translating one piece from Douglas Hofstadter's GEB: EGB in my seminary work for English (I must add some one-page introduction and closing for the translation); I'll be writing about that marvelous book in some other entry surely. The other work is to Math, I'm doing some general overview of Fibonacci (and related) numbers there. It's really just browsing the net looking for interesting stuff. But now I'll be doing only some practical applications (it's easy to talk about various occurences in nature, then some applications in art etc) and a little bit of history (Bonacci, Lucas, ...).