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I implemented the random number generator and interpolation functions to produce my own perlin-noise-generated terrain.  I put a new picture here.

I switched over to developing in Microsoft Visual Studio Express instead of dev-cpp. Things weren’t going right, and I wanted to be able to use the debugger. It’s amazing how much faster you can program when you’re using the proper tools. I’m not sure what was going on with my computer earlier, but something wasn’t right. Whatever the issue was, it’s no longer a problem, because everything is working fine for me now.

I do so love to program.

I switched over to a new host for MarkPNeyer.com, for several reasons. My friend had been hosting the website for free, which I greatly appreciated.  He didn’t have a lot of time to work on a free hosting service, though, so when I wanted to install askismet to filter spam out of the blog, I realized I had to upgrade wordpress and that would have been a huge hassle.

I was able to get a sql dump out of the old blog, but the database format for the blog changed between whatever version I was using then, and whatever version it is that I’m using now. (How do I check that?)  So, after a lot of database finagling, with PhpMyAdmin and such, I finally have all the old posts and comments restored. The only problem at this point is that the WordPress people decided to cache the value of ‘comments’ for each post, which means that my default value of ‘0′ makes it look like all of the old pages have no comments on them, which isn’t true. If I really cared, I  could write a SQL script to figure out how comments there were and fix this egregious error. Heck, maybe I will.  Maybe.

Last night, Xavier had a ‘WorldQuest International Trivia Contest.’ My team, Math/Computer Science Team, came in second out of 30 or so teams. Not bad, I had a few decent guesses myself.

I am working on an awesome senior project for computer science, and waiting to hear back from graduate programs. So far, only stanford has replied, with a big fat ‘NO’. Those jerks.

I should get back to doing my homework and such, but I’m quite giddy with excitement over having my blog back up again.  Hopefully, everyone who read it didn’t just run off after it stopped working.

I didn’t know that internet explorer was stupid and not shrinking images to fit in the frames. I went back and made changes so that everything would show up correctly even to people using IE.

I’m trying to personalize this site a bit, and in the process I’m learning that I’m real out of date on this css buisness. When I learned to make webpages, you did it with notepad and wrote all your HTML by yourself. I did learn PHP but never learned the idea or concept of a style sheet.

So it may look goofy for a bit.

Hi.

I decided to have blog, primarily form my own edification. This would be the obligatory first post. Here (at www.markpneyer.com) you will find my ramblings about programming, video games, and philosophy. For seveal reasons I am going to keep this site free of politics. If you want that sort of thing, I guess you’re out of luck.

Note: If there’s stuff on this website that doesn’t make sense, it’s because I used fantastico to install WordPress for me, and a lot of the default options are kinda screwy. Like something on the right called a ‘blogroll.’ That’s weird.