Smoking
Kat's giving up smoking, not having had a cigarette in four days now. She's holding me to my promise to sponsor her for $2/week for a year, with her paying me back double if she starts again. Gill's also giving up. This is excellent news, I like my friends and workmates not smoking. :)

TPJ
Yay, issue #19 is finally on the web. This means I finally get to read mojotoad's article, as well as my own of course. :)

Climbing
Went rock-climbing for the first time in ages today. My fingers and arms are a little sore, but the mexican afterwards sure tasted good. Got to see Dan G who I haven't seen in ages and had been missing. Chatted to him lots about geeky things like Java, roguelike games, PBMs, and ducks. Good fun.

Warboid World
Just got a letter from Peter giving me his blessings to resurrect Warboid World under an open source license. It looks like the license for the server-engine may end up being QPL. I expect the clients for playing the game will be under whatever license their authors choose.

No, QPL isn't my favourite license, but it does serve the important purpose of allowing the original author(s) the ability to spin-off closed-source variants. There's also nothing to say we can't do a TrollTech later on and go from QPL to QPL/GPL.

Tim's Party
Tim from work had his 21st yesterday, and made an open invition to all the office if people wanted to come. Most fun I've had in a group for a long time, the night really kicked off well.

We went to a place called the "Glow Bar", which had the most (or possibly second-most) amazing toilets I had seen -- pretty much everything (the washbasins, the hand-dryer, the urinal) was a mirror, which certainly made bathroom ettique interesting. It's a shame that rcp wasn't there, I'm sure he would have loved it.

I left that a somewhat reasonable time, aware of me having to work the next day. Kat came to work with a hangover, and Dan didn't arrive at all. All up, a fantastic night was had by all.

Growing things
Wow, I knew that radishes grew quickly, but I'm still very impressed by my collection of them. It's been about a month and they're already of a quite edible size.

Melbourne Cup
To some people, it's a horse race. For myself and many others, it's a day off work. Spent the day cycling around Melbourne -- Merri Creek to Darebin Creek (REALLY pretty in spots) and then to the Yarra River. Collected a bunch of wild garlic that the recent rains had washed up, and got to meditate on a rock in the middle of the Darebin creek. Wonderful day, I'm still feeling good about it.

PBMs
Got in contact with Peter Read of Dynamic Games, who really got me into PBMs and lots of other tactical and strategic games when I was about 12 years old. The game that I was thinking of was called "Warboid World", and no, it's no longer being run.

I'm hoping to convince Peter to let me have a stab at resurrecting Warboid World and some of the other PBM games that I remember from my youth. These could hopefully be re-released as Open Source to be run in a more Internet-aware enviornment, using an E-mail or web interface to play the games. I feel this is much better than the games dying out completely.

PBM
Still have this weird desire to play really old PBMs that don't seem to be around anymore. I might well take up the idea of re-coding the one I want to play most from memory in C++, simply because I know just how long it's been since I've really done anything in C++ and how rusty my skills in that area have become. Perl may be the swiss-army chainsaw of the Internet, but that doesn't mean I can't get mental RSI from using it.