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I have written a short article about ScummVM for 64bits (only available in Swedish). It’s an combination of a HOWTO and a adventure game trivia article.
You can read it here: ScummVM – Äventyrsspel redux.

I have decided to try to learn C in six months. I’m not sure if it’s a bit on the optimistic side, but I really feel the need for a goal and a way to put pressure on myself.
Hopefully, by July I have learned enough to write small GTK and SDL programs.

Read The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff. This is the sequel, or companion, to The Tao of Pooh, a book I really enjoyed. The Tao of Pooh was clever, cute and interesting, however, I can’t say the same about Piglet’s book. There’s a lot of “finger pointing”, stretched analogys to serve the authors point [...]

Watched A bridge too far and K-PAX this weekend.

It seems every now and then I get bitten by the Tetris bug and start playing. This time, it was this discussion on Slashdot that sparked my interest again. I still suck at playing, but at least I’m improving :-)
Also found out about Puyo Puyo, a japanese twist on tetris. FloboPuyo is an really [...]

I keep a long list of books I aim to someday buy/borrow/get someone to buy me/steal and hopefully read. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson have been on the top of that list for quite some time. After X-mas last year I finally had money to make a raid on Adlibris. This book come highly recommended [...]

I just removed my first comment spam. *Sigh*, guess I need to look for some bad-ass filtering for my Wordpress.
Some pointers about this:

Limit comment links from the standard five to fewer.
Block spam keywords
Blacklist comment spam plugin
Rename wp-comments-post.php to stop automatic spam posting.

I still miss some way of rating spam and deleting whatever scores highest (a [...]