w00t! I’ve just been reading about Black & White, the new game by Peter Molyneux, the guy reasponsible for Populous. It looks awesome in a multiplicity of ways. Check out the FAQ on PlanetBlackandWhite for more info!
Archive for March, 2001
D’oh! I guess I should have checked that freeservers had a cgi-thingy before starting. Oh well, this means that there’s no funky dynamically generated links page. For the moment anyway.
I guess I’ll just have to run the thing at home and upload. Oh well. Definitely time to look at a change of web hosts.
Well, the little link-maintaining thingy is coming along nicely. I’ve got it parsing an xml-ish file for its link database, and outputting the correct HTML for inocuo, all I have to do now is set up the cgi bit, so the links page will be dynamically generated from the db file.
I just realised that this could be very cool. I could alter the script to keep track of the Blogger user posting the link as well, letting people run ‘link blogs’! Cool.
Anyway, got to get back to work.
Well, I got my game! It’s ‘The Longest Journey’, four CDs of adventure-game goodness!.
Unforturnately, it looks like I’m not going to have the time to play it, because between managing to book myself to travel for three out of four weekends including the last one, I do have a thesis to write. Shit.
I’m working on making my links page dynamic, using a custom-written parsing thingy, and a plain text file to store the links. Should be entertaining. Also, I’m looking at trying to get the major project I wrote for the Cosmology Distinction Course back in 95 when I was in year 12 online. This may involve retyping it, so that might take a while, given that it’s over 7000 words.
There’s also the Honours seminar to consider. I’ve got a presentation, and about 7000 words due for that. Guess there’s no such thing as leisure time for me for a bit.
Also, if you’re interested in anime and/or computer games, you should visit the ‘ph33r the cute’ link. It’s to a webcomic called Megatokyo, and I find it scary that, as they claim, they really do understand me. Here’s the link again in case the post disappears.
Here’s a much more upbeat article about extending the Internet to Mars, to give the landers higher bandiwdth.
Well, well, well. Nothing like having a little DMCA all of our own. Link from /., to an SMH story about our new content-protection laws. Libraries “will not be able to build up searchable collections” of digital material, “or provide material in competition with commercial providers”! In other words, welcome to the brave new world where the only stuff worth knowing is owned by some company that will demand your balls on a stick to look at it, and will then stop you from ever telling anyone else about it.
Corporate abuse of the idea of intellectual property makes me sick.