Archive for December, 2006

2006 sucked. Sure, it could have been worse, but I think I wasn’t very lucky throughout the year 2006. Most of the things that could have gone wrong indeed did go wrong. I hope it will be better in 2007 (and I am quite sure it will).
Happy new year to everyone! :woot:

I like TeX. It suits most of my needs and it’s overall quite nice (let’s not talk about the directory structure, ok?). I use pdftex because most people can easily read pdf files.
I want to do a really simple thing: make a page that is 148mm wide and 210mm high. Not so difficult with \pdfpagewidth […]

Reading comics is a very pleasent way of wasting one’s time, therefore, I’d suggest you a few time-wasters that I really enjoy:
Nerd boy is a very geek ascii-art comics created by Joaquim Gandara. It has about 600 strips and is currently stalling. I suggest you to read the strips in order, as they don’t make […]

I’m really happy to have finished second in twixt.ch.13.2.1 (I explained it many times but here it goes once again: 13th championship, 2nd league, division 1 (that doesn’t really matter)). It guarantees me participation in league 1 during 14th champ. A few words concerning the games:
The game against Loren was a disaster. I am not […]

I will make it short this time:
Google didn’t confirm my click-fraud, because I didn’t engage in any. Google just confirmed that someone engaged in click-fraud (and if Frank is not stupid, he can find out who it was using his webserver logs).
I did not admit to using a pirated copy of Frank’s program. I have […]

Winter is pretty quiet time of a year. Considering birds, crows sometimes caw, but there’s almost no beeping (except PC speaker (especially for vim beginners)) during winter.
However, on my way to school I walk past this bush, that is very, very loud. The beeping is particularly intensive during morning, my educated guess is that it […]

Let me sum it up understandably and clearly:

Frank de Groot had a long history of swearing and attacking various innocent people.
David Windsor made a not really good joke about stealing Frank’s software, a minute later he retracted it.
David Windsor was then faced with various legal threats from Frank de Groot. Frank also said “all I […]

I was really surprised when I was getting my system password at school. I got a paper with all the students’ names, and was told to rewrite mine. Noone would really care if I wrote down several others. Then I was required to sign the paper confirming that I got the password.
This whole process is […]

This is very personal and I believe that anything I write here can be used against me.
I have first met Frank quite a long time ago. I sincerely tried to help him by providing comments to a game played by his program (I even said that it played very good fuseki). He misunderstood and thought […]

W00t!
I have finally reached rating 2000 in TwixT, my second favorite game. Although I used to be in top ten with rating around 1950, I am not in top ten (12th currently) with 2000 now… the times are a-changin’…
On a less positive note, I am currently playing twixt.ch.13.2.1 (13th championship, second league), and I need […]