A friend asked me to beta-test his entry for the 2009 Interactive Fiction Competition, and doing so reminded me that hey, I really enjoy text adventures, even though I suck at them. So I spent a few hours on Sunday playing some of last year's IFComp entries. In particular, I played through Jeremy Freese's Violet, last year's winner, which I hereby ( Read more... )

1100: collect delirium from IT department, now with new hard drive fitted.
Rest of day: move office, attend lectures, etc.
Evening: Attempt to find Ubuntu CD.
1930: start download of Ubuntu iso image on sharleen (wormwood_pearl's laptop). Go to juggling club ( Read more... )

My girlfriend's computer is currently more 1337 than mine. This state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue.

Edit (2152hrs): Fixed. My computer is now 1337 again. Or as 1337 as I need it to be, anyway. Now, to install lots of obscure programming languages!