Betelgeuse

Syndicated 2012-05-19 18:35:11 from Monument

Easter

"We should be taking steps to celebrate Easter in creative new ways: in art, literature, children’s games, poetry, music, dance, festivals, bells, special concerts, anything that comes to mind. This is our greatest festival. Take Christmas away, and in biblical terms you lose two chapters at the front of Matthew and Luke, nothing else. Take Easter away, and you don’t have a New Testament; you don’t have a Christianity... This is our greatest day. We should put the flags out." -- Tom Wright

Syndicated 2012-04-07 11:52:00 from Monument

Time

This email about the BBC interview says: "Morning or early afternoon is best for us as we would have to travel back in time for it to be on our 6.30pm programme."

I have just realised it means: "We would have to travel back... in time for it to be on our 6.30pm programme" and not, as I've been thinking for hours, "We would have to travel back in time... for it to be on our 6.30pm programme."

The funny thing is that I wasn't awfully surprised by the misreading. I mean, Doctor Who works there and all.

Syndicated 2012-04-04 14:37:02 from Monument

Perl skeleton XML parser

Syndicated 2012-04-04 11:13:06 from Monument

marnanel @ 2012-04-03T11:55:00

"I should also mention that there's a memory-saving hack. AVALOT.EXE is just a bootloader, which sets up a block of memory, points an interrupt vector at it, and then loads the actual executable, AVALOT9. AVALOT9 is then capable of storing temporary state information in the block, and also setting a function code which tells AVALOT.EXE what to do when AVALOT9 quits: either loading COMMAND.COM so that shelling out gives you a reasonable amount of memory, or loading a cut scene (and then loading AVALOT9 again afterwards), or quitting."

-- me, in email, discussing the design of Avalot with someone from ScummVM

Syndicated 2012-04-03 10:55:52 from Monument