BBC 6 Music played bits and bobs from an album by Don Bradshaw-Leather – “Distance Between Us”. It was a fantastic. Unfortunately it looks to be unavailable (legally) now which is a shame. Would recommend to anyone that they track it down, the “official” site is (I think) here.
As someone who seems to be permanently attached to a beard I would like to experiment with some more modern/crazy styling options.
My current idea is to make a stencil with some interesting patterns on it, apply it to beard and run a trimmer over it. This might work better with stubble? If I can overcome the fear factor of producing an absolute mess I will report back…
TinyMud
After an evening of re-remembering ‘c’ and fighting gcc warnings it ran! Seeing the text appear took me back a few years to times of playing text adventures.
Now all I need to do is design my flat and send some invites out. If this is too difficult then I will probably just opt for a vintage mud fest!
TinyMud
I’m getting back into AD&D at the minute as I have decided to write a simple role playing game for my daughter (age 6). I love role playing and reckon it might be a way for me to blend fun with maths teaching! Anyway I digress.
During some internet searching I bumped into wikipedia and TinyMud. The comment in wikipedia about instances of this old mud being rare made me a little sad so I have decided to resurrect it for a party in a couple of weeks time. This is similar to the “Brigadoon Day” except I will leave it running on the slice.
I have managed to find the ‘c’ source code from 1989 and I’m working on getting it compiled again – mainly just #include issues, so it should go ok.
Once complete I intend to re-create my flat and invite as many folk as I can for a party, given it allows basic construction of new objects I wonder what might result.
Update (2010-01-26), I have it running, just need to map out my flat!
The festivities are over and a new year starts.
Coding wise my mind maps from the web project has sucked away too much time, but has been really enjoyable. I think I will play with it over time, might go somewhere might not.
I have decided to complete getting “moo” out of the door as quickly as I can, given I run a repository on hosted projects – I might just keep on using it for now, rather than switch over to the slice (thus delaying my git/svn decision).
Toker, my (Tok)en manag(er) tool is also getting some updates, hopefully I can also get this released to the world, at some point. The rails code is terrible – It was the first thing I ever wrote with the framework. I even have someone collaborating on this!
In general I’m quite looking forward to this year. From a nerd point of view my slice host account is running, I have some applications to give to the world (whether it wants it or not!) and there are tons of things I want to try out and code.
My coding resolution is to have a successfull collaboration on something!
