Occasional Thoughts

Someone might be able to convince me to eat fried ants. But scorpions? Well rather than Weasel Coffee. Huh? What am I talking about? See the not-so-usual snack offers on this site.

I've been a netpanzer player since several years and always wanted to create maps for that game on my own. However I never managed to compile the Flexlay editor and so I wasn't able to do this. Until Lohengrin, the administrator of the netpanzer portal netpanzer.info, gave me the compiled binaries of the flexlay editor.

He compiled it on Kubuntu 6.10, but it also works on my SuSE 10.2. The archive he gave me included all the files for compiling and editing other games than netpanzer and was around 180 MB big. So I stripped everything that was not necessary for running the editor and ended in a nice little tar.bz2 with just 6 MB, which you can download below.

You have to check this out: Star Wars Epsiode IV in ASCII. Simply run telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl in a terminal window to see it.

What the hell is Karopapier? Karopapier is an online game that simulates a car race between multiple players. Well, it's not really an car race, it's more an adaption of a game that can be played during attending lectures in the university. Currently it's only available in German language, but the creator is working on a translation. OK, what is this posting all about? It's about how to abuse Firefox to become a Karopapier chat application and how to keep an eye on the chat, while surfing the internet.