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I was in one of my moods, so I’m sure that didn’t help. She didn’t react favourably – probably because she was in one of her moods, and she dropped the ban hammer. But since I’m anti-deletionist I kept everything.

I could get into things, and give my thoughts, but the point of this is to be anti-deletionist and nothing more.

What follows are my comments. Originally posted on a blog but not allowed to be published. I saved them and am posting them here, without context. I think they stand alone fairly well.



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(All the old image references are gone, because that host is gone.)

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World of Warcraft questing can be made a whole hell of a lot easier and faster. Here’s some of the stuff I’ve played with.

2012-08-27 edit: I use Leatrix Plus for quest acceptance and completion, and my own macro/hotkey for clicking on the topmost item in my tracked quest list. Nothing else is needed.

(Note: some of the images went missing from an old host, and all I have are thumbnails.)



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Hackers >

Source: usenet: utastro!nather, May 21, 1983.

A recent article devoted to the macho side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement:

Real Programmers write in Fortran. [ see Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal ]

Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand calculators and “user-friendly” software but back in the Good Old Days, when the term “software” sounded funny and Real Computers were made out of drums and vacuum tubes, Real Programmers wrote in machine code. Not Fortran. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language. Machine Code. Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers. Directly.

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Ok, so I haven’t been writing here at all. Why? Well because I have too many different “systems” out there which each get a piece of my attention. So sometimes one of those systems suffers.

I do actually have 40-50 people a day who read something within this blog. While that isn’t the quarter million a month from the good old days it’s still some people who might care. Or not, I don’t actually know. There’s no real social aspect to blogging like it seems to exist elsewhere. Well that’s something I’ll ponder over sometime later. I’m antisocial anyways, so it’s low priority.

So seeing as there is at least “some value” in this place, I really should be thinking about it more often. So that’s why I’m back and why I’m writing this.

I suppose I may as well do one of my huge essay pieces, since there is just so much background which would need to be understood for a reader to actually “get” what I’m going to try to get across.

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