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WTF - Password required to read SL Blog?!?!?!

Jun
18
2008 in Rants, JIRA, off topic, Epic Fail, WTF and Second Life.

Check out this dialog I was just presented with when I opened Firefox to read some of today’s blogosphere buzz :

Okay… "Apparently there’s a picture or something in that blog post that is hosted on JIRA, which is causing the browser to ask me for my password", I thought to myself, "I should go to the actual blog post and mention that fact, I bet they’d appreciate that". Well, easier said than done :

Naturally, comments are closed. Well, it’s not my problem, and I don’t have any real responsibility to try any harder than that to tell LL when they screw up, but I would like to point out the irony of a blog post about Payments by Bank Wire which appears to be phishing for my password

PS: The authentication dialog looks the way that it does because I’m using Firefox 3 with the Nasa Night Launch Theme.

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Happy Father’s Day to Me

Jun
15
2008 in off topic.

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It’s been a pretty darned good day so far. I’ve been baking and cooking a lot with my daughter lately - she’s been showing more interest in cooking again - and last night (at 11:00PM, I have no idea why) we had decided to make an apple-cinnamon coffee cake (click the image at right for the recipe), so I got to start out the day eating something that I made with my daughter. That’s a good way to begin a day, in my book

Afterwards, the children and I began some kenjutsu practice, which is a really fantastic way to get into the rhythm of the day. Though it’s been almost a decade since I last practiced regularly, I still find that I am absolutely in love with it. I’m probably teaching the kids some bad habits, since I was never much more than a beginner (I only studied regularly for about two years), but I cherish the ability to share that with my children, and I no longer live near any of my former instructors, so I can justify it to myself.

seik_3 Speaking of instructors, that guy there on the left-hand side is Kurita-sensei, a former uchi-deshi to O-sensei, who went on later to become the founder of the particular school of Aikido / Kenjutsu / Jodo that I used to study. I dearly miss when he would come to America to teach in seminars during the summer. It was always highly educational, and the man has serious mad skillz and a real talent for teaching. Anyways, I really enjoyed that time with the children this morning, and I really think it’s a great way to bond and share some special time.

Continuing the wonderful trend, even dinner was pretty fantastic today. I made one of my favorite meals: barbequed pork ribs on the grill, baked potatoes, and corn on the cob. Yeah, yeah, my favorite meal is basically comfort food, sue me For once, everything turned out pretty much exactly the way I wanted it to, and it’s hard to imagine enjoying any meal more. It really was that good.

250px-A_small_cup_of_coffee As soon as I can find the room, I’m going to sit down with a cup of fresh-brewed coffee and a big old slice of chocolate cake that my daughter made for me today at some point when I wasn’t looking, the little sneaker. I’ve already tried some of it, and I have to say, that girl makes a mean freaking cake. She may only be in her teens, but her cakes are easily as good as any other I’ve ever tried. I sure wish I knew what the hell she was doing differently, since her cakes are better than mine, haha. In any case, I expect that I’ll thoroughly enjoy dessert as well.

I hope that all of the fathers who come across this post, as well as those that don’t, are having their own fantastic father’s day!

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Working on it…

Jun
15
2008 in Software Development, C:SI and omgbots!.

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I know I’ve been out of touch lately, for a number of reasons (some of the pretty good ones, too *smirk*), but I was reading the daily Coding Horror blog entry this morning and it contained a little observation so obvious and powerful (yet frequently ignored) that I had to immediately act on it :

And yet over and over, I’m gathering stories that point to the fact that programmers do not want to write code out in the open. Programmers don’t want their peers to see mistakes or failures. They want to work privately, in a cave, then spring "perfect" code on their community, as if no mistakes had ever been made.

One of the unfortunate consequences of this trait, which I exhibit just as much as (and maybe more than) any other developer I’ve ever met, is that for very long periods of time it will appear that I am doing absolutely nothing with regard to C:SI, while the truth may be that I’m just in "dark mode".

While the aforementioned blog post has more relevance to professional software development than to in-world scripting, it at the very least demonstrates to me that I could do a much better job of communicating what I’m doing "behind the scenes" rather than giving the appearance of doing nothing.

So on that note :

I’ve been reviewing the comments on my using bots for testing post, and compiling those into a more formal (in the sense of ‘do these steps’) list of tests to be performed, as well as trying to understand the whole ‘what makes a balanced weapon’ subject, and am beginning the process of working on updating the bot code.

This will likely be a long-term ongoing project, but if it’s at all interesting to people I could post about my progress here. I’ve also been considering posting periodically about how I implement various things in the bot code in case anyone else is interested in the subject, but I’m not certain I want to do something like that until I get some issues worked out (which is, of course, the whole point of the subject mentioned in the first paragraph, lol).

In any case, I just wanted to let people know that I’m recovering just fine, and *am* working on stuff, even though it probably doesn’t look that way

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Muh brain

Jun
12
2008 in off topic and Cool Tech.

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Just felt like posting this, for no particular reason other than the fact that I like the way my eyes appear to be glowing in this one, which is a pretty darned cool effect

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