Daniel Janus’s blog
YAVP
7 April 2008
Jezus, the high elven wizard, saved the world with his brave efforts and became a great ruler while saving himself 34 times.
He scored 24999532 points and advanced to level 50.
He survived for 0 years, 123 days, 0 hours, 11 minutes and 39 seconds (176207 turns).
Jezus visited 127 places.
His strength score was modified by +26 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +17 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by +10 during his career.
His dexterity score was modified by +7 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +25 during his career.
His charisma score was modified by +9 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by +6 during his career.
His mana score was modified by +13 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +15 during his career.
He was unnaturally aged by 76 years.
He was the champion of the arena.
He was a member of the thieves guild.
He made a little water dragon very happy.
He defeated the arch enemy of a mighty karmic wyrm.
He adhered to the principles of the Cat Lord and thus rose to great fame.
He saved Khelavaster from certain death.
He left the Drakalor Chain after completing his quest and became a great leader and famous hero.
Ubuntu post-installation tricks
7 April 2008
Yesterday, my level of frustration with my old operating system at work exceeded a critical point, and I installed a fresh daily build of the not-yet-released Ubuntu 8.04 in place of it. Then, in addition to usual post-installation chores like setting up mail, hardware, etc., I performed a couple of steps to make the system more pleasurable to use. Here’s what I did, just in case someone finds this useful.
The TeX Hackery
6 April 2008
After a longish while of inactivity, I finally got around to finishing the draft spec of a next-generation protocol for Poliqarp, the be-all-end-all corpus concordance tool that I maintain. The spec is being written in LaTeX, and it has a number of subsections that describe particular methods of the protocol. Each one of those is further divided into sub-subsections that describe the method’s signature, purpose, syntax of request, syntax of response, and an optional example. I thought to write a couple of macros to help me separate the document’s logic from details of formatting, so that I could say:
Introduction
4 April 2008
So, there. Inspired by the newly-started blogs of some of my acquaintances, I had this thought that I might actually have a word or two on a number of subjects, and that it might even be worth sharing. And here I am, typing this introductory entry in my Emacs.