This doesn't seem to happen to anyone else I've talked to in real life, but I seem to accmulate USB pen drives as freebies. Talk to a vendor get a USB pen drive. This was fairly useless when they were all like 8 MB or 16 MB but I recently got my first 256 MB pen drive as a freebie. Since most of my…

Well, dodecahellspawn is compiling again, seemingly without any loss in functionality except for the aesthetic improvements in the solver. Basically, the big change here was that I went from hard coded states to a more extensible object oriented state system. So instead of code like

switch (current_…

One of my friends from high school was in town this weekend, so I just went out and saw Alien vs. Predator. It wasn't horrible, but way too much plot and too many people. I would have been perfectly happy if they had just thrown a hundred Predators and a couple thousand Aliens on an open field and …

I currently have two projects in that annoying state during a major refactoring where the code no longer compiles because the guts are strewn across seven different places. One is dodecahellspawn, the other is something I'm doing for work.

On the plus side, I've learned the joys of source control, s…

One good thing about working on about juggling a bunch of different projects at once is that it gives you the chance to get some distance between you and the code. For example, today I went back to dodecahellspawn and hopefully found the problem with the old solver: I had a < when I needed a <…

Two things pissing me off right now:

One, I work mostly from home using a laptop that work has given me. All fine and good except that I still do half my work on my home computer. So I have the two side by side. I'm constantly using the wrong keyboard or mouse for the computer I want to be working w…

The transform iterator adaptors have gone on the back burner. One of the constructs I'm using doesn't seem to be happy in gcc, and my template-fu isn't sufficient to figure out a work around. So basically, I need to do that complete re-write I was talking about. That's sufficiently demoralizing tha…

I've narrowed down the choices for my new computer system to one of two choices: a Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC or a Shuttle K6200m with a Wacom Cintiq 15X monitor. I like the idea of having a digital sketchpad and I want the system to at least LAN gaming portable, hence the tablet and the small …

At this point it seems likely that we'll be formally adding the ability to buy subscriptions for others. Plus we'll also be adding more art and content related features for GDNET+ subscribers, and overall making the site more friendly for the creative types. Put together these put me in mind to res…

Looks like subscriber benefits have gone up. Let's see how long it takes for all the bugs that I didn't find to crop up. :P