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Dream Theory
October 07, 2002

I was wondering today how much our dreams affect our waking lives.  I had a very... I can't say strange... unusual dream last night, involving a gray vintage VW Beetle and a girl I don't know.  There was another part where I was walking with a guy I don't know who was playing with some cards and telling me strange things.  I was hiding from some people, I think I may have killed someone in my dream.  As many of my more "important" dreams go, this one was pretty surreal.

So I suppose I've been thinking a lot about it today.  Who was that girl?  And as I describe the dream and who these people are, they're not really people that I don't know - they don't actually exist.  It's not like I'm sharing my dreams with someone else.  I don't buy into a collective dream state.  There's no evidence for that.  But I didn't want to say "dream-girl", since that implies something completely different from the role this person played in my dream.

Triglav
October 07, 2002

It’s a Javascript-based RPG that runs in your browser.  To anyone who doesn’t code, this game will probably seem mundane, but as I said to someone when describing it earlier, “There are very few things on the web to which I respond, ‘How did they do that?’ And this is one."  Note that you right-click to cast a spell, and that your mouse cursor isn’t an arrow or index/hand, like it is everywhere else on the web.http://www.smokymonkeys.com/triglav/

PageCat HTML Editor
October 03, 2002

I have added an HTML editor to the article editor of PageCat.  It's working out quite nicely.  I have a couple of features that I would like to add to it (for which I even have source code, just haven't integrated them yet), including a MS Word HTML cleanup script and a graphical table creator.

The MS Word thing is very handy.  If you've ever had to edit a web page someone else created in Word you know what I mean.  It puts all kinds of extra tags into the HTML that make it very hard to read.  It also uses all sorts of <font> tags, which are just yucky.  This script I stole from some other site has a bunch of regular expression replaces that do away with all of the Word yuckiness.

e-tools, test scores, urinal pucks
October 02, 2002

I’ve been thinking about Fluid software’s e-tools for D&D. It seems pretty comprehensive, although not as pretty as the original that came bundled with the Player’s Handbook. However, with output like this, you really can’t complain too much. (There are actually only two graphic files used throughout that entire page - very impressive.)

Anyway, I've been thinking of taking their sample HTML page (linked to above) and putting my character into it. And then I was thinking that it probably wouldn't be too hard to sprinkle some JScript into the thing to get it to be dynamic. Of course, I'm being a little bit crazy. Er... A lot crazy. But it seems like something that might be useful.