For always and for always, I pray remember me

Torchwood

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:30:37 GMT

So, watched the Torchwood thing. Admittedly it was a lot better than the two episodes of the first season that I watched. On the other hand, still has the ridiculous fixation on the idea that melodrama and deus ex machina make for good story.

In trying to talk about sheep for a while there are numerous problems I might have to face

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:50:35 GMT

I wrote a song about sheep whilst on the bus back yesterday.

A sheep is a hardy remarkable creature
It lives on the mountain where nothing else grows
But give it a lawn and some grass for to munch on
And watch as its health and its happiness grows

I don't recommend keeping sheep in your house
Or letting one loose on your manicured lawn
For you may come home to find poos in the kitchen
And all of your grass most haphazardly shorn

For a sheep it is not an inside sort of pet
It is perfectly happy outside in a field
It's not terribly bothered about getting wet
But still, give it a shelter beneath which to shield

A sheep it is known as a most wooly creature
It gets rather warm in the summery time
So get you some shears of electrical nature
To shave it all off, and you'll both be just fine

The sheep will be glad that it isn't too hot
And you can sell the wool for a reasonable fee
Or spin it and knit it all into a jumper
A comfort for you (but too itchy for me)

Erm... there were a few other verses, I think, but I forgot them.

And every stop is neatly planned

Sat, 30 May 2009 22:02:26 GMT

Rose appears to be trapped in Birmingham New Street train station. One of these situations where having a car would probably come in handy. Hopefully her stepmother may be springing to the rescue.

Meanwhile, I continue to play the field with programming languages, getting excited over Scala. Sadly, the languages I find myself getting excited about are never the ones people want to pay me to play with, and I'm useless at thinking of my own projects to carry out.

John the wood went out one day

Sun, 17 May 2009 08:45:16 GMT

For some reason they seem to have given me two dreamwidth invite codes. If you want them, let me know.

Sun, 03 May 2009 18:15:33 GMT

Meme from teh_elb: a quiz answered in song titles.

Pick your artist: Jethro Tull

Are you male or female: Journeyman

Describe yourself: Thick as a brick

How do you feel about yourself: Just trying to be

Describe where you currently live: Made in England

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Skating away on the thin ice of a new day

Your favorite form of transportation: Trains

Your best friend is: Living in these hard times

Your favorite color is: Velvet Green

What's the weather like: Sunshine Day

Favorite time of the day: Fire at Midnight

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called: The Third Hoorah

What is life to you: A Passion Play

What is the best advice you have to give: To be Sad is a Mad way to be

If you could change your name, what would it be: The Whistler

Your favorite food is: Cheerio

Thought for the day: ...And the Mouse Police never sleeps

How I would like to die: Bungle in the Jungle

My soul's present condition: Batteries Not Included

The faults I can bear: Cross-eyed Mary

My motto: Lick your Fingers Clean

Ode to a Goldfish

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:11:08 GMT

For National Poetry Month:

Oh brave little goldfish,
Thou gallant and bold fish,
To circle all day in that water, so cold, fish?
Do you not get tired?
Do you not get bored?
To tarry so hard but with naught as reward.

I love thee, my goldfish,
So please, do not scold, fish,
When I pledge my love, for to have and to hold, fish.
I gift you this poem,
My heart to contain.
For in minutes, I know, you'll forget me again.

LJ Friends graphs

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:11:36 GMT

Via emily_shore - foxfirefey has made a very cool tool that produces graphs of your friends network. I've got this running, so if anybody would like one made, let me know.

April Fools Day

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:26:10 GMT

There have been some quite good April Fools stories up on Slashdot.org today - though I think what's even more striking is how many of the real stories look like they're fake:

Yeast-Powered Fuel Cell Feeds On Human Blood
Hints of a Link Between Autism and Vinyl Flooring
Cold War Standoff Over ISS Toilet
Volunteers Simulate Mission To Mars (an exerpt: Six volunteers have climbed into a small metal capsule in Moscow as part of a three-month experiment meant to simulate a voyage to Mars. The crew — a German engineer, a French airline pilot, and four Russians — will spend the next 105 days living in a minimally furnished facility erected in a hangar on the outskirts of the Russian capital. [...] Scientists will keep a constant vigil on the team via cameras erected in each of the facility's three modules. Those who survive more than 100 days will earn a $20,000 reward.)
NASA In Colbert Conundrum Over Space Station

There were more I was going to post, but then I realised they were April Fools jokes... :-(

Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat"
Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx

To those interested, a follow up to rfc1149: rfc5514 gives a method for IPv6 over social networking. I now want to go and find the named facebook app (it's not going to exist, is it?).

Watchmen

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:13:57 GMT

So, have just watched Watchmen. Hard to formulate what exactly my opinions are, really. On the one hand, it was really quite excellent. On the other, I think that both my enjoyment and the percentage of the film I was able to watch would have been substantially increased had the level of violence dropped to about 30% of the level in the film. By the end I was just turning away during most of the scenes involving Rorshach (and a good number of the others). The rape scene left me feeling really quite shaken.

I don't have a problem with violence in films per se - I will vigorously defend that in Pan's labyrinth as absolutely necessary for the film, but I do dislike gratuitous violence, and it seemed to me that whilst this film could never have been done in the style of X-men, say, there was slightly too much focus on really making me want to hide behind something.

Usually this would put me off completely, but then there really aren't that many films that I actually like - as opposed to just saying 'meh' - that to come out of this still with a feeling of 'that was quite excellent' in spite of the violence tends to indicate that it's worth overlooking the violence to an extent.

The conclusion was very satisfying, which pleased me a lot, and I thought the score worked very well also. Even to the extent that I found the Jimi Hendrix appropriate, whereas I usually find his music incredibly tedious.

Oh, and I didn't notice the blue penis, until about half-way through when I remembered that people had talked about it and looked for it. Can one analyse its period of oscillation to demonstrate that they weren't on Mars? I did somewhat expect to see it erect after the conversation when Manhattan waxes lyrical about Laurie and how she came to be, as a symbol of his humanity/lack thereof (probably both, I suppose, given the nature of that scene), but then I think you're still not allowed to show an erect penis in an 18. Or maybe that was never something they wanted to suggest.

Not sure if I would recommend or not. Suspect I err to the yes, just on the fact that I think it is the best superhero film I've seen. Though if you don't like violence, probably not.

ETA: Link stolen from tektotheriggen - a recording from an aborted attempt at a Watchmen cartoon in the 1980s...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w

LLVMDC

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:33:54 GMT

Watching a couple of compiler writers giving a talk on their subject to a very small audience is very sweet. I think they might be worse than mathematicians. I want to give them a hug.

Thoughts thought upon tracking a breadmaker

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:43:06 GMT

Whilst tracking my breadmaker (which departed Glenrothes at 11:57 this morning) it occurred to me: they should have little cameras in the delivery trucks, so not only can we follow the progress with little status messages, we can actually follow the progress directly (also with GPS feed). Get annoyed with traffic jams and bad weather! Now, it's not just a purchase, it's an adventure! Like those things on Sesame street where they would interview the loaf of bread, but for real. If ever there was something to stimulate the economy, this is surely it.

When the blacksmith courted me, when he tore away my love

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:55:06 GMT

List of books via deepbluemermaid - highlight ones read, undeline ones loved (this was specified as opposed to merely liked) and italicise those which you intend to read.

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible - various authors
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare [well, I've read quite a few of the plays and sonnets, but definitely not all!]
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows– Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (representing the proportion of Anna Karenina that I've read...)
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. Dune – Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold [I started this, and didn't like it]
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web – EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas (I really should finish it at some point)
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

They tell of one who tires of all

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:22:00 GMT

Think I've pulled my back somehow. Quite painful. No idea how I did it - my dad's always had back problems, so I'm generally very careful about lifting things in the correct way and whatnot.

Oh well, I imagine it will go away.

Did you try the doorbell?

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:18:30 GMT

http://xkcd.com/530/

This has to be one of my favourite XKCDs in quite a while.

snow

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:42:59 GMT

As a partial compensation for today being back-to-work day, I awake to a blanket of white covering Cheltenham.

Merry Christmas from Mr. House

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:45:34 GMT

In time, I have come to think of you as 'people I've met'

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:06:30 GMT

Exciting updates on my life #184:

I have fingerless gloves for typing in. Now only the ends of my fingers get cold.

Lines writ after Taruithorn Fireworks

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01:50 GMT

Set to the tune of 'Invisible Touch' by Genesis

Well I've been sleeping, sleeping all through the night
Who would have thought I'd wake up to find a bite?
But now I know, I've got this latent lycanthropy
Want to chase everything I see
I hear the wolves, they're howling, howling for me

I seem to have a metaphysical affliction
I see the moon, and slip right out of my skin
I'm trying to fight my humanflesh addiction
Show me a vein, and I just want to tuck in...

Was just a pleb, I thought my friends were the same
But now they're scared, and I'm playing a different game
Cause now I know, that there's this monster inside of me
Want to eat everything I see
And now it seems, they're hunting, they're hunting for me

I find I have some lunar based reaction
I'm getting hairy, where I've never had hair before
Just trying to get me some decent biting action
But there's some fool who's left a plant at the door

It's going wrong, they heard me move in the night
My aura's tainted, I think I'm in for a fight
Cause now they know, that I've been eyeing them up with glee
Thinking which shall I have for tea?
I hear the shouts: they're calling, calling for me

Just cause I have this jugular fixation
It's just the moon, it takes control of my brain
It's not my fault, just natural predation
This need to bite you, over and over again...

Erm... apologies. Just in general.

The magical multi-functional widget emporium?

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:26:28 GMT

So, I actually got around to calling the helpline today, and the upshot is that, as soon as I can actually find my national insurance card, I need to register as self-employed. One of the questions is asking for the name of my business. So, anybody have any cunning suggestions for what I should be called? I'll be doing largely software engineering for the biodiversity community.

All suggestions considered!

Retroactive transexualism

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:28:03 GMT

This question arose out of a discussion about bugs on facebook. We were discussing whether, if one changes one's sex on facebook, status messages from prior to the change should be altered to reflect the new status. That is, should a sex change be applied retroactively. My feeling was that it shouldn't, in line with most changes of this sort - if I change my name, I would still refer to my older self as my old name, etc. and I think that this is the legal perspective. However, the chap I was talking to suggested that he thought those he knew who'd gone through the change would prefer it to be taken retroactively, which perhaps does make sense if it's seen more as a legal acceptance after the fact of something which was already the case.

A lot of people on here have a lot more exerience and knowledge about issues like this, however, so I thought I'd ask and see what your views are.

And gold lace to make me apparel

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:19:48 GMT

So, am coming into Oxford to attend e_pepys's election night party. I have to leave in about 15 minutes to get the bus. The party starts at 22:30. It occurs to me that I should see whether anybody feels like doing anything in the 5 or so hours between getting to Oxford and going to the party. Of course, it also occurs that I should have charged my phone, which has a dead battery. I am not especially... no, I can't really remember what it was going to say there. Suffices to say, if anybody does feel like doing anything in the next 10 minutes, let me know. Or I will possibly have some charge on my phone at some point.

Rose says I should 'just make the damn post'.

So I will.

ETA: Am meeting footnotetoplato.

As the fading light illuminates the mercenary's creed

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:00:30 GMT

Birmingham has had snow, apparently. We now have some snow here, though I doubt it will settle, as it's been raining for the past few hours. How fares Oxenford?

but the master of the house is far away

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:36:47 GMT

So, actually sort-of-employed at the moment, which is nice. Well, technically, atm I'm waiting for an email to come through with login details for the server I'm meant to be working on, until which I can't do much, but.... Doing some freelance work for the chap I've worked for the past few summers, and with another chap down in Dorset in the same sort of business. It's actually very nice to be back doing work again, rather than sitting at home all day doing nothing (although technically the work involves sitting at home all day, as well...). If all goes well, I have a couple of days work now, then should have about a month and a half's worth of work from sometime next week, and a further three months' after Christmas.

Only sort-of-employed, because I'm not actually sure exactly how the financial side is going to roll out. Have a horrifying suspicion I'm going to have to become self-employed, and thus saddled with self-assessment and all that malarkey for years. Should really find out about this...

Titus and Zeno have grown, rather! They have an annoying tendency to jump onto the bed in the wee hours of the morning and wake us up by walking across our faces, which we're not very happy about. The plan to evict them from the bedroom failed about an hour after it began when I felt too mean, and Zeno was meowing plaintivitely outside the door.

I shall be very jealous if you Oxford people get snow...

Spore

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:32:08 GMT

In my last post, when I mentioned that Spore would run under linux (details of which can be found here, btw - basically, if you compile the git version of wine and turn the lighting down to the lowest level, it should all work), footnotetoplato asked whether it was worthwhile. Which is an interesting question, and one that I felt might merit a post.

Ultimately, to save anybody who just wants an answer and not to hear me waffling, yes, it is worthwhile. It's not an unequivocal yes, however. Spore is a game that tries to be a lot of things, and fails to be... some of them. In others, it does very well. The problem is, one gets the impression that if it had tried less to be the things it fails in, it could have done the ones it does well brilliantly. It also feels rather rough, and could perhaps have done with another few months of testing, but that's by the by, really.

As must be massively publicised by now, it's a game in five stages: cell, creature, tribal, civilisation, and space. The fact that there's such a wide disparity in the amount of effort put into and fun got out of these stages has to be one of the game's weakest points - it's obvious that comparatively little thought got put into the tribal and civilisation phases, and it shows. The cell stage, though, to begin with, is great fun. Much after the theme of Flow, you swim around a primordial ocean, eating things smaller than you, running away from things bigger than you, and gradually growing larger yourself. You can make yourself look outlandish, but not too much, and there's only a limited selection of parts. It doesn't really matter, though, it's fun anyway, and relatively short.

The creature phase is where the game really comes into its own, though. There's clearly some clever stuff going on in the algorithms that sort out the movement and dynamics of the creatures, and it shows. Designing your creature isn't a case of 'pick a head', 'pick a body', there's some cool stuff you can do, and you can make some quite outlandish creations. It's really fun. Out of the water now, you have to roam around, making friends with or genociding all the other species which have crawled out of the water. Different parts will give you differing abilities - fixing a spike to your tail will let you strike things, for example; wings will let you glide. There are a few restrictions - Spore eschews anything that isn't bifold symmetrical, for example - and a few bugs - if you've mostly eaten vegetation as a cell, but retain omnivorous mouthparts from your cell phase, you can continue to eat meat, but you won't get the option to add any different omnivorous mouthparts - my winged dinosaur-type creature spent its life with a proboscis sticking out of its beak. And there are areas when you think they've clearly missed a trick. You may make your creature as outlandish as you like, but it won't actually have much impact on how the game plays. Getting better at charging just means that when you click the 'charge' button, it does more damage. Dancing and singing are only engaged in the little mini-game of impressing the other tribes. Wings are an exception - they noticably change how you can move, which is good, rather than just being a speed increaser. Towards the end of the creature phase, it seems to tilt the balance such that new species you meet will be more likely to have a natural disposition against you, and attack you on sight. With my Jump 4 and Glide 5, and a little timing, I could soar down, grab their DNA samples (in skeletons from extinct creatures) and leap back into the sky before they had time to react.

With all the work that went into the dynamics of the creatures, however, would it have been much more effort to use a realistic physics engine for the gameplay? Later on, in the space stage, one can terraform planets from large bodies to small moons, but there's no mention of differing gravities. It's possible to tone up and down the musculature of your creature, but this doesn't have any effect. How hard to have a weight system and realistic movement impediments based on it? If I hit a tiny chicken with my armoured rhinocerous type creature off of a charge, it should go flying, not sit there with stars around its head. If I can hit it at all - it should be able to flap off to the side whilst I go charging into the next tree. Designing creatures is fun, but they're selling the Creature Creator part by itself for about £10 - what I'd like is a game that reacts in a meaningful way to the creatures I create, rather than a game that gives me pretty backgrounds to look at them in. Of course, I'd like that too....

Expand the creature phase with a realistic physics engine and you'd have an instant successful FPS (although that should probably be First Person Slasher, or Spitter, given the context). Add something more of a plot and you'd be on your way to an intriguing RPG. Drop the tribal phase and incorporate some meaningful interaction with the other packs and you'd have a much better version of Spore. Because, to be frank, the tribal phase is rather naff. You lose the ability to modify your creature and gain the ability to dress it in some clothes, which is much less fun. The clothes are mostly designed for bipedal creatures with forward facing eyes, and don't really fit anything else. My avian had a face mask fastened atop its beak and a hat somewhere down its back, for the (dubious) social/combat benefits they give you when dealing with other tribes. Again, you have to make friends with or destroy them, and the way to make friends is to give them gifts and then perform for them, responding to audience requests by hitting the right buttons. It's dull. Enough said.

Likewise the civilisation phase, though it's a bit more fun. You now gain the ability to design your buildings and vehicles. It's been done before, it's basically Paint! the Game. You can make come fun looking things, but the game doesn't react in any meaningful way to them, and there's no interesting dynamics or anything as there was in the creature phase. The game is (have you guessed it yet?) to ally with or conquer the other tribes on the planet. It's basically civilisation, which is where the problem lies, really. You could be playing civilisation, which is a much better game. Hell, in Alpha Centurai I could even design my own vehicles, so there's that aspect plugged. Even the designers seem to realise you'll get bored of it quickly - once you've conquered a certain number of cities, your last 'superpower' will become available, depending on how you played the tribal phase. Mine was some sort of rapture ability, with the description of 'Converts all cities'. I assumed it might mean of one other tribe, so I tried it, to find that all the other cities became mine. Bang! Instant progress to the next stage.

The space phase clearly has a lot more work put into it, and it's where the game starts to get fun again. One thing that it has put to me: the Galaxy is big. There are thousands of stars, there. It's really, really big. Massive. Too massive for the amount of micro-management they make you do. Sorry, I was going to talk about how the space phase is fun, and it is, sort of an EV:Nova cross with Master of Orion. Actually, could do with some of the plots from EV:Nova... but instead they bog you down with micro-management. The role you're meant to play isn't really well-defined here. Are you the leader of your people, or are you a starship captain? The ranks you have to go up start with things like 'Commodore' and 'Admiral', and go up to things like 'The All-Powerful', as in 'The All-Powerful Diocletian Empire'. If I'm a starship captain, why am I required to build all the buildings on every planet? If I'm leader of the people, why can't I assign some of those other starships I see flying about to protect my planets, rather than calling me back from somewhere that's taken me 15 minutes to get to (because the galaxy is Really Big) because there are pirates raiding spice? I'd rather one or the other (and I'd rather be a starship captain), but the combination is just annoying. Depending on your relations with other empires, every few minutes you'll be called to some planet to sort out pirates or invaders or to sort out an ecological disaster - flying around shooting 'infected' animals. Having these sorts of things as missions would be good, or even a proximity system - if you pass within a few systems of where something is happening, it would notify you - calling anyone who can help, etc. Being called from the centre of the galaxy to deal with an infection in a herd of Booples isn't fun. Later in the game, you can get devices to assist with such problems, such as an Uber-turret which flies around defending the planet. You still get called, though, only when you turn up there's nothing there because the turret has blown everything up. And you still get berated if you choose not to show.

Overall, however, it's a fun game. Now what would be nice would be if Maxis open-sourced the code for the creature dynamics so that things like a physics engine could be written for them. And guess what the next creature I'm going to design will be? That's right, a flying pig.

It's full of stars

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:25:03 GMT

Optimising my livejournal-content to word count ratio, I deliver two pieces of data in a single sentence - the first, a useful piece of information to those whom it may concern, of which I feel there are a few on this list; the second, an indication of what I've been doing these past couple of days.

It is possible to run Spore under linux. :-)