Busy.
Been extremely busy for the last week or so, so
no update. My home network is finally starting to look less
like a hacked-together mess, and more like a real
environment in which to work; my main desktop will be
turning into a 550MHz box, rolling the 333MHz CPU down to
the mail server. The router took a drop of 20MHz, but an
upgrade from a 486 to a Pentium and a quadrupling of memory,
so I don't think I'll complain much. ;-) Overall, I'm happy,
but the result has been that I've gotten very little
non-work "work" done lately.
Geek Eats
If you're in the Chicagoland area (although I
understand that there's one in NYC as well), an interesting
place to swing by is Mars
2112 in the Woodfield Mall in
Schaumburg. The service left a bit to be
desired, and I'm not sure if the food was worth what they
were charging (although it was relatively tasty), but the
main dining room is a geek's basement wet dream; I
want a basement done up with the Mars-surface style
rock and overhead black-lit "starscape" ceiling. It didn't
hurt that the
room stretched up two floors or so. A good one-time visit,
methinks.
Intermud-3 stuff:
Yeah, I kept playing with that. I now have a
"real" parser for the incoming data (ie. translating MudOS data text-formatted
types into native Perl variables), although why I thought
it'd be fun to write this in Perl, I'll never know (I'm
thinking Scheme would have been much easier, and probably
made more sense). Blecch. Ah well, I'll probably throw up
what I've done so far on my webpage, and call an end to
it.
relaytest:
No progress. (I found time for a Perl
implementation of I3, but none for a real useful project?
Bad programmer, no cookie.) The only thing I'm holding off
on before the CVS import is the loadable module interface,
and then it goes off to Sourceforge while I try to find time
to do all the testing modules. Promise. ;-)