Two memes considering sci-fi books (via).

Getting Debian running on a iPAQ hx4700 (work in progress). Touchscreen is working in X. GPE working.

Finished reading Ilium by Dan Simmons. It was a bit disappointing, I think it was too conservative. I liked the moravecs and the interface using coloured triangles, circles.

Last.fm started their new Recommendations service. I especially like the slider with popular and obscure. Which allows discovering new things (contrary to Amazon where I only get recommendations about books from an author I already have, or very popular books).

Information about Mozilla extensions.

Kahuna is a wonderful two player game we play at work. With our modified rules is, the game is very dynamic and the distribution of island can change dramaticly within one turn.

I have rewritten the software which makes this website. In the previous version the data was stored in a database and the pages were generated using Perl and Mason. The current version stores everything in (xml) files, and generates the pages use Ruby. Storing everything on file makes everything much accessible to me, so hopefully it will be easier to post, and thus do that more often.

I have been playing Machiavelli (it appears there is no English version of this game, and I can not make a link to the distributor because they automaticly link back to the main page) at work. I think what makes it such a nice game is that pure strategies won't work, and there is not much preparation required. When playing with two players, the first player is too strong, especially in the first round, if during the first round the first player takes the "Thief" and discards the "Murderer" his advantage is huge. Therefor we adjusted the rules, such that the first player has to discard a character at random and may choose one from the remaining seven characters. Also we discarded the rule that your buildings may not be destroyed after have build eight buildings.

I have created a new design for this website. I am not completely happy with it, so there probably will be some more tweaking later, but I publish it anyway. I'll try to add the possibility to switch back to an older design (if you think this design is way too ugly I might make the previous one the default). Also there will be some small changes, to give the content more a kind of blog feeling. I do not care how it looks in IE, but it should look fine (more or less) in Mozilla and Opera. This design, which I call "colourful flower", it was designed with the idea that I wanted a bit more colour in the design, and I got a bit irritated by all the nice looking images at the css zen garden (damn, I just found this design).

I have not done a post in the last few days, which is contrary to my goal. And I do not really have a good excuse, I have started working on a new design for this site, which is of course quite a bit of work and won't be finished within a few days, but mostly I just have been reading too much (books and weblogs).

Systems which work according to very simple rules, still produce very complex behaviour. Small changes in parameters can have huge consequences ...

Overview usefull/useless CPAN modules

Making links ...

I have the wonderful goal, of trying to make a post on my website every day. ...

A short introduction about myself (mostly history)

Haskell in Perl, Part 2: The lexical analyzer

The birth of a new small project: Implementing Haskell in Perl.

getLost is my triplet based data management system

Movies of refraction in reaction diffusion systems.

George the Appleman

Pong with an extra dimension.

Use this hook for Delphi's Kibitz Compiler to let your expert know which words are allowed at a certain position in a unit.

Reverse engineers programs (and packages) written with Delphi 4 and 5.

Puthoon DirectX Library, my own DirectX library for Delphi, consist on the moment only of two DirectPlay componwnts.

Quatris is a simple Tetris clone.

Speeds up the start up of your Delphi programs by removing all useless initialization code.

Describtion of how a TileEngine should work.

Finding Delphi classes in binary code.