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June Poker

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:08:33 MST

Didn't get to play much in the last month but went deep in a couple PLO tourneys on Cake to make it an up month. Graphs after the jump.

TF2 Lag Issues

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:23:59 MST

Over the last few weeks I've been having issues on the OCR server, which aren't present on other servers nor experienced by anyone else on the server.

MediaWiki Collapsible Sidebar Sections

Sun, 03 May 2009 05:27:17 MST

A little out of hand

Our sidebar got a little out of hand on a certain wiki I'm involved with, and while the best solution probably would've been to stop adding crap to it (a charge, incidentally, which I happen to be the most guilty of), I opted for the "code my way out of a paper bag" route. Read on for details, once I post them. They're about halfway typed up, I will finish when I get back from Too Many Games.

Oh fuck what just happened

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:40:24 MST

Hulu: Y2K Compliant

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:12:29 MST

Seriously, how do you NOT notice this:

Generations: The /1 Rule

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:28:56 MST

I've updated Generations to work with other life-like CA rules. Video + Stills inside.

PHPMud Updates

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:14:46 MST

PHPMud is back in development and actually kind of a game now. Enemies spawn randomly and you can attack and use pre-programmed skills on them. Pretty soon they'll attack back and you'll have to earn/train skills.

Election Night Bingo

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:08:20 MST

http://xerol.org/electionnightbingo.php

For all your drinking game needs. Use as a bingo card, a blackout card, or just a list. If you have troubles printing please let me know, same with words to suggest adding.

MAGFest 7: Banned in 100 States

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:34:51 MST

Digg it!

Word of the Day: Ajack

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:40:19 MST

Ajack (v.) - The act of locking up a user's browser with excessive, slow, or broken AJAX. Ex: "Even Firefox 3 gets ajacked by the new Facebook."

Hawaii's Riveting House Races

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:27:32 MST

I was searching around for some House election polling data and found a map on NPR.org (click on the House tab) that at least detailed which states have close or important races. If you click on a state with such races, it pops up a list of the matchups and a bit of detail on the candidates and the matchup itself, and a statistic about the state that might be important.

States with no important or close matchups, such as the Dakotas, just display a line of text saying "No Key Matchups" and the statistic. Except in the case of Hawaii...

UnSynth Progress

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:14:41 MST

I've done some more work on UnSynth. It's shaping up to be about 12-15 tracks (mostly shorter than my average, so around 45 minutes total) with about half being new tracks. Right now I'm still working on the remakes, having done some more work on Triangle Diplomacy and just yesterday deciding to update The Space Moose.

Also confirmed are a Brushless Motor update, a new version of Trashcan (mainly synth updates), and a Ping (album8) remake.

Bolgging

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:25:01 MST

I think it's about time I started doing some regular blogging. Like most bloggers, I have nothing to talk about, so most of my entries are going to be random nonsense. Purple monkey dishwasher.

It's STILL GOING.

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:01:01 MST

Or at least it seemed that way.

Storm Damage

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:00:10 MST

Had some big storms come through last night, brought down a bunch of trees. A large branch came down over our porch roof, but only damaged the gutter (we needed a new one anyway). Pictures inside.

Game of Life: Multiplayer

Sun, 18 May 2008 19:57:43 MST

I hate debugging.

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:12:59 MST

The good news is I've recovered all my old code and projects so STRPG, TubeRacer, UNTANK, and a few other games are coming back.

RSS Updated

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:32:05 MST

RSS feeds now take a user argument (since I'm not the only one posting anymore) and have been rewritten with clean URLs. Feed at: http://xerol.org/h/feed and my own feed here.

Odometer Rollover

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:16:11 MST

The odometer in my 2000 Ford Ranger rolled over tonight on Bel Air Rd in Baltimore.

Gallery: Baltimore Auto Show

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:25:40 MST

Went down to the auto show today. Wasn't too impressed, although I came away with about 10 pounds of booklets.