Sunday, June 13, 1999
Yesterday went swimmingly; we had a great time at Gunston Hall, then re-watched some of our videos from England, and sorta goofed off for a lot of the day. Today I’ll be at my neice’s 3rd birthday party most of the day. Found out some interesting bits about George Mason: he came into his inheritance at the age of 10 after his father died in a storm at sea. He always conducted business […]
Saturday, June 12, 1999
Well, we’ll be going to Gunston Hall, home of George Mason, today. Evidently it’s gorgeous there this time of year, so we’re going to stop by for an hour or two. Haven’t been there in awhile. It’s about an hour’s drive away, so I’ll bring a book, and my trusty PalmPilot. I’ve come to love my Palm. It’s been great for three things in particular: Keeping lists at work. I have half dozen test […]
Friday, June 11, 1999
I wrote up a simple little raycaster for BeOS the other day, using Wolfenstein 3D-era technology. It’s not particlarly fun to run around in, but it does work. I’ll post it here. I’m also working on an actual (very simple) game derived from that, with texture mapping and sound and all that jazz. Programming this has been a lot of fun, too — I’d forgotten how […]
Thursday, June 10, 1999
I love 12-hour work days. I love ’em so much, I’m going to go home early today to recover from the one I had yesterday. :-) Nothing else to report, really; obviously, I didn’t do much yesterday outside of work, other than checking my e-mails.
Wednesday, June 9, 1999
Ugh, Wizard.net’s servers have been up and down all week, which is why I haven’t been updating more frequently. IAE, I ran out to CompUSA the other night for a new case (I couldn’t remove the power supply from my BeOS system’s case, so I needed a whole new case), and surprisingly enough got one for USD$40. I swapped everything into the new case, and it booted up like it had been […]
Saturday, June 5, 1999
Good news and bad news. The good news is that I’ve finally got my Palm Pilot working, and I must say I’m impressed. With CSpotRun as my text viewer, I’m reading Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey with gusto. The games are all as good as I’d expect. And once the software is set-up, double-clicking on any Pilot program automatically schedules it for transfer to the Pilot. Well done. The bad news is that […]
Friday, June 4, 1999
Don’t know how long I’ll be able to stay connected here — my ISP’s telnet connection has been extremely flaky of late. Well, my Palm III did indeed come yesterday, and it’s working fine. The main problem is that, in trying to free a COM port for the cradle (so I can transfer useful apps onto the Palm), I managed to fry my keyboard/mouse/monitor switcher (which I use so I can have the same […]
Thursday, June 3, 1999
Sorry I didn’t update yesterday — Wizard.net’s servers were up and down all day. I downloaded the seti@home software for the BeOS yesterday. I was a bit perturbed at seeing it suck up system resources like it did, but perhaps that was a matter of its first run. [shrug] I was glad to see I could kill the process, then restart it later with no apparent ill effects. I just got […]
Tuesday, June 1, 1999
I’m getting a PalmPilot III tomorrow. These things look awfully cool, and (even more impressively), quite useful. I got it off PriceWatch for a mere $200 including shipping. If it goes well, I’ll think about getting one of those new Palm VII’s. I’ll post my thoughts here after I get it and use it. Well, I’ve made some progress on that fantasy novel I’ve been […]