You race--I place quinellas

10:20pm: Happiness... tricky thing
It's a little late for this, but... It was in Aspen last Christmas. The moment I did my first slope there - my first slope ever - was easily the happiest moment of the past 12 months!

9:30pm: How 3D graphics should be coded
Finally I got around to installing VirtualBox, a virtualization package. Although I'm unhappy with the status of virtualization technologies today, that thing did let me take a few screen shots of my old programming projects.

Some of them still impress me, after 10 and more years :-) Why oh why didn't I publish this before I was looking for a job? Silly me. Anyways, I give you b1998, a 3D snooker simulator. And let the screen shots do the talking:




In theory, I could use a Java emulator like JPC to publish my simulator as an applet for everyone to play with. But JPC doesn't emulate a good enough video card. Dang. I guess I should help out.

In other news, check out my search engine. It can work miracles. Took about 2 hours to implement :-)

7:59pm: Russians steal (again)
A bunch of sneaky Russian web designers (most likely operating in a garage) decided to steal key features of my home page's design. This is fucking ridiculous. Ironically, said designers seem to pride themselves in originality of their work.

It's alright you bastards, I have corroborating evidence right here :-) Although I am too lazy to act on the matter.

See for yourself.

Mine:


Theirs: