Of Qubits: An article in New Scientist (which sounds like a Christian science magazine but I swear that it’s actually a legitimate publication) today indicates that closing the loop on reality with quantum computing may be prohibited by fundamental limits …More
Archive for June, 2005
WM_NULL Notification
June 30, 2005
“The WM_NULL message performs no operation. An application sends the WM_NULL message if it wants to post a message that the recipient window will ignore.” MSDN
An idea occurred to me today, while I was trying to configure some SAP servers at work today. For those not in the know, SAP is middleware designed by Satan, implemented by idiots, and purchased by masochists. SAP is an …More
Xtremely Majestic Language
June 29, 2005
Tile set editor Today’s addition to Witherwyn is a mostly functional tile set editor. This editor makes it very easy to manage and extend the tiles that the engine will recognize and use to create levels in the game. So …More
We are Pentium of Borg.
June 27, 2005
We are Pentium of Borg. Division is Futile – You will be approximated That in reference to the infamous Pentium Bug. That’s my non-sequitur segue to discussing Dr. White’s Angband Borg which is really cool. It’s a computer player for …More
Oh, that was Baghdad at night in those days
June 26, 2005
Ramadan Rereading some old favorites. Anyone who likes stories needs to go out and locate a copy of Sandman #50, “Ramadan”. One can find it in Neil Gaiman’s “Fables and Reflections” collection. You don’t even have to buy it, you …More
Adventures in the Infinite Realm of Witherwyn
June 25, 2005
One of the cool things about summer is that I have time to work on my own programming projects. I’ve been kicking around the idea of making my own roguelike game all quarter and lurking on rec.games.roguelike.development. Now I’m finally …More
The Best Week Ever
June 22, 2005
Got home yesterday from the best week at the beach ever. If you were invited and didn’t come you definitely missed out on some serious fun. Too many individual fun things happened for me to more than give a gloss …More
That's "Rehoboth" Beach.
June 15, 2005
Sorry to everyone I had to give vague directions to because of my claim that the exist of “Rehobeth” Beach is denied by MapQuest. Yeah, I know I’ve been coming to this beach since forever. Give me a break. We …More
