A quick update

The past few weeks seem to have flown by - I seem to have started six or seven projects, and completed precisely none of them.
Still, the twitterbot at www.twitter.com/I_Like_Numbers seems to be working well (even if George did manage to find an "island of uninterestingness" that extended for several numbers!), and the bot I set up to generate quasi-random compliments for Laura seems not to have fallen over (at least, she hasn't complained that it's stopped complimenting her!)

One interesting project that's been abandoned for now was finding a football players' "Beckham number" - a measure of how distant a player is from David Beckham, in terms of playing on teams (analogously with Bacon or Erdős numbers). Unfortunately, turns out that a) there have been a lot of football teams over the years, and b) there are no easily accessible and well-organised databases of them (best I could find was here, and I did start running a rudimentary scraper on it, but when it was still running two weeks later, I gave it up as a lost cause and resolved to find a more efficient method later).

I also experimented with writing a Raytracer before realising that, although it's very easy to conceptualise with a rudimentary grasp of physics, it's a VERY time-consuming and intricate project to code. Very high effort-to-reward ratio. Not a good free-time project.

BUT I have been tinkering more with the Pi a lot more. I ditched Mediatomb as a media server due to weird database organisation, and went with the more slimline minidlna. This has the added bonus that it doesn't come with a web interface, so I'm in the process of designing my own. Heheh, only in the FOSS world would a lack of a feature be considered a bonus :)

And, of course, there's the super-duper top-secret project I've been working on, which will utterly change the face of this blog as we know it - but that's to be revealed later ;)

Oh, and, before I forget - in our daily football predictions, today we were guessing the score of two teams named Ajax and City. James, of course, expressed the former as an expanded acronym. Respect.