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Just in case you were wondering, I can assure you that my nickname has nothing to do with the Chinese or the ocean.

I’ve just managed to make the irc.mozilla.org QDB—or QIMO—design work better in IE. It almost doesn’t suck anymore. I had to add some extra <div>s, but I say it looks fine, apart from the random red line problem in the top right corner. You may also notice I got rid of the table for the start page—that’s one of the many changes and new features coming to Chirpy! soon.

“Crash”: 7/10. Hey, so, newsflash, racism still exists and, apparently, that’s so shocking we need to make a movie about it that is nothing but a couple of weak storylines that barely manage to bear any relationship to eachother. And the IMDb fanboys are giving it an 8.3/10. I mean, really.

“13 (Tzameti)”: 8.5/10. Up until the somewhat predictable ending, I was thinking more along the lines of a 9/10, despite that it seems to be in black and white for the sole purpose of being “different”. Nonetheless, it’s a good film, and at least part of it will keep you on the edge of your seat, even though you totally know what’s going to happen.

I wonder if the owner of that ice cream truck is ever going to realize that “When the Saints Go Marching In” is a Christmas song. Or maybe he’s just trying to symbolize the cold.

I updated my Mozaik solver to make it (sort of) pluggable and it now does DFS as well. Levels 1 through 6 are included; 6 is too complex for both BFS and DFS. Feel free to download it and maybe come up with a decent heuristic algorithm, because I sure as hell won’t—this little side-project is already way out of proportion.

Tobi Neumann looks a lot like T-Quest but he’s cooler.

And now, to make me sound slightly less uncool again: we’re going clubbing at Fuse tonight—Ricardo Villalobos and Tobi Neumann are playing and yours truly is on the guest list.

Because Mozaik is a cool game, I’ve taken the liberty of writing a BFS solver for it in Perl—even though I’ve managed to solve all levels without it. Of course, it runs out of memory insanely fast, so it’s only suitable for some levels. A DFS algorithm that stops at the maximum number of allowed twists would probably be less pointless. I might get around to that later. If you’re interested, the BFS version is right here.

“Boring lessons are good practice for life, say teachers.” Right, maybe times have changed since my day, but that is absolutely ridiculous. Kids aren’t that different from adults, you know. It doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that they’re kids—if something is boring, people won’t care about it.