I’ve finally finished (for now, anyway) another hunk of code in my ever-growing suite of half-baked productivity tools. I’m tentatively calling the whole mess “Ywar”, and would paste the dictionary entry here, but all it says is “obsolete form of ‘aware’”. So, there you go. I may change that later. Anyway, a rose by any other name, or something, right?

It’s been over six months since my last bit of progress on The Great Infocom Replay, but I have not given up. In fact, I’ve put “make progress on the Replay” into my daily practice, so maybe I’ll keep making progress from here on out.

More than a few times, when I’ve told people that I play an older version of D&D, I’ve gotten a slightly horrified look and the question, “Is that the one with THAC0?” What’s so awful about THAC0? I ask, but the answers are vague. “It doesn’t make any sense! It’s bizarre!”

Just about two months ago, I posted about my revived “work through some tickets in each queue then rotate” strategy. When I had first tried to do it, I hadn’t had enough discipline, and it failed. After a month, it seemed to be going very well, because of two minor changes:

There’s a stupid program I rewrite every few months. It goes like this:

It is amazing how bad Yahoo!’s “family account” experience is. I want to make an account for my six year old daughter to use to upload her photos to Flickr. Googling for Yahoo! family accounts and flickr finds this text:

I’ve got nearly every goal on my big board lit up. So, now I’m getting into a routine of getting all the regular things done. Next up, I’m going to try to get better at doing the one-off tasks I have to do, like file my expenses, arrange a piano tuning, and that sort of thing. For this, I’m going to try using Remember the Milk. I’ve used it in the past and liked it fine, but I didn’t stick with it. I think that if I integrate it into my new routine, it’ll work.

Warning: This is sort of rambling.

I’ve not usually a big fan of blog-propagated questionnaires, but this one looked good, because it will force me to articulate a few of my thoughts on my D&D game. These are Random Wizard’s Top 10 Troll Questions. I already posted answers to the 20 Quick Questions on Rules that he mentions, for my D&D game. My answers to the 20 Quick Questions are in the game’s GitHub repo.

I like learning new programming languages. Unfortunately, I rarely make the time to get any good at them. I’m hoping to figure out how to force myself to write something non-trivial in something at least relatively unlike what I do all day.