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Check out Double-Tongued Word Wrester for some fun new and/or rare words [as well as a refreshingly simple page design]. I’ve added it to my blogroll, and not just because they’ve included Google egg in their neologisms section ;)

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I recently worked out a C++ trick for use with "if-else-if" chains. Hopefully it’s not too much of a "well duh!" kind of thing, but it seemed pretty neat to me. Link to my description.
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Sorry for no pretty new Drivey pictures, but there’s just nothing new to be seen in the visuals department at the moment. If you can’t hold out for the new stuff, then check out this colorful country scene with gradients [1280x720... I'm digging the 16:9 aspect ratio].

I’ve been mostly concentrating on aforementioned sound, and it’s proving quite a challenge to get all those sine waves and noise functions to produce anything that doesn’t sound like a loudly farting ray-gun.

May do some fix-ups in the current [JujuScript] demo version of Drivey and release a minor update with manual steering control that doesn’t suck [and road noise– not yucko engine noise though]. Steering control seems like one of a few self-contained algorithms that should be fine for rapid prototyping in JujuScript, although in general I plan to avoid parallel development [ie duplication].

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My hair is getting long and stupid looking, but I have to resist the temptation to shave it all off [short and stupid looking is worse] – I must overcome this morbid fear of hair professionals…

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I lurve the new Battlestar Galactica [saw the miniseries last week], and the series [which starts this week] will have to suck donkey balls for at least the first five episodes before I give up on it. I’m kind of glad I saw it before I read too much about it, because the whole Cylons-look-like-us-now thing sounds too much like an excuse for not coming up with any cool robot costumes. Yet somehow even with an imaginary sexy humanoid Cylon, it still works!