The latest bread experience in the Elbeno household is Pane Mediterraneo from Ralph’s International Classics line. I’m always partial to a crusty crust and a soft crumb. A peek at the inside: appropriately holey.
New stuff
There is quite a lot of new stuff in the Elbeno household this week. On Saturday we braved the outside world for lunch once more, and perused the shelves at Borders for a while afterwards. I picked up a couple of books that I thought looked interesting. On Sunday, our…
Windows broke my setup
Well, I reverted my Windows XP x64 to Windows XP Home. Unfortunately, in the process, something in the Windows installer decided to wipe out my existing FAT32 partition (the one where I keep all my data files, mp3s, etc). I’m not sure what happened; I didn’t see any reformatting going…
Quick update
Apologies for the lack of blogitude lately. Let's see… this has been a fairly normal week in the life of an Elbeno. Actually, much better financially than most weeks. Went to a book sale. It was very sunny so I caught the sun on the back of my neck, even…
Interactive Fiction – I7 on Linux
Well, there is now a front end to Inform 7 on Linux, using Haskell and GTK. The compilers are still Windows exes so must be run with Wine. For now. One would think it pretty straightforward to recompile a command line app though.
Linux vs Windows, number i in a series of 2^n
I am now, at home, a mostly exclusive Linux user. There are now only 2 or 3 things that I boot Windows for. And I’m finding now that for many things, Windows is now a burden and in fact less powerful and (which is more significant) less easy than Linux….
interactive fiction – a new direction!
Inform 7 is out, and it looks like a whole new way to write IF. Very exciting! Although I must say I’m surprised by the lack of Linux version: why didn’t they slap a GTK front end on it rather than writing Windows and Mac specific code?
E3 roundup
Another year, another E3, another photoset on flickr. Reports of booth babe bans were exaggerated (yay). But overall, a fairly lacklustre E3. I didn’t queue for the PS3 or the Wii. But I did come home with plenty of free stuff thanks to chatting up the booth babes and being…
Update
– I am now a legal permanent resident of the USA. – I got a new digital camera last weekend: the Canon powershot A700. Seems to be performing well so far. Expect E3 pictures soon.
Goodbye to WoW
I cancelled my subscription. Anyone want my stuff?