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Today I dug out my awful HP fanfic again and did a bit more work on it, because it was slightly less vomit-inducing than my risible attempt at writing fantasy.

I really need to deal with these photos. But I don't want to just throw them online and make you look at an Apache page, or even try and title them all reasonably, as I have no idea of the names of the people in half of them.

I think Neil would like me to plug nox here, so I will. It's the n-by-n case (well, it tells you off if you go over 99 because of constraints like the number of characters on the keyboard, screen space, memory usage etc) of noughts and crosses. There are forced wins on board sizes 6 and 7 (whoever goes first wins) still, unfortunately. (My dad, who has become absolutely addicted to the game, is rather annoyed about this fact). Subtitled 'Noughts and Crosses for the Clinically Insane'. We gave it pretty graphics when he was over here.

I started Callandria off today (on Rondak's Portal). So far I've had one reply, from the character I mentioned earlier.

I do wish I had something useful to do at school. Maybe I'll dig out that Python interpreter over the weekend, but even then, my current project is a pygame thingamy, and they haven't written pygame for the Psion, suprisingly enough.

There is a big brown bug with large mandibles in a pot in the middle of our living-room floor.

I want to know where the pseudoword 'flergenpoit' came from, and why I've started overusing it.

I want to do something, but I don't know what.

I missed the meeting about fencing.

./~ They're out there making history
In the Lenin Shipyards today
And here I am in the Hammersmith Hotel
Wishing the days away ~\.

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Google's only hit on the word is http://socialmux.xidus.net/ ; I'd suddenly like to have a computer named flergenpoit.wibble.marnanel.org, or something. Maybe.

Something I'd like to see done with nox is a CGI version. It's not awfully hard to turn something into CGI (especially in Python) and it's good practice, because CGI is a useful thing to be able to do.

Yes, SocialMUX is where I picked it up from.

Wirble. Scary web stuff. I don't, generally, get on with scary web stuff - hence procrastinating terribly over getting these photos up, because I have not the faintest idea of how to do it neatly.

The main difference is in where you keep the state of the game: you have to keep it in cookies, or in the URL, or in a file on the server, rather than in variables. It's a bit like programming inside-out. Other than that, it's rather fun; but you need to be happy with producing ordinary web pages too, of course.

Something I'd like to see done with nox is a CGI version.

This is something I'd really like to see done as well! (My website has been suggesting that I might do such a thing for years[1]).

However, I lack the technical know-how, and last time I looked Python's .net enviroment was described as "Extremely experimental".

Perhaps when I'm back in Cambridge we could get together and you could teach me how to make CGI scripts?

Neil

[1] Well, okay, 6 months.

Yes, that'd be good. Let's. (But why do you want to use .net?)

Oh. I was given the impression that that was the easy way to simply turn an existing program into CGI (is it a bit like frontpage: it's the easy way to make a web site, sure: but any self respecting individual will do it in a text editor).

Neil

I don't _think_ so, unless you know something about .net that I don't. I think it's more to do with component-based development.

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