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                    JOURNAL FOR WEDNESDAY 10TH JULY, 2013
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SUBJECT: I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world! [1]
   DATE: Wed 10 Jul 23:26:31 BST 2013

I don't get on well with hot weather. I'm OK up to about 22-23°C but above
that I tend to get very dopey and tired. Since the weekend it's been 26-29°C.

Is this an excuse just to say nothing much has been happening to WolfMUD?
Nope! I'm a night owl and it's been cooling down in the evenings. Only to
17-20°C so trying to sleep is a pain, which wouldn't be so bad if I didn't
have trouble getting up in the morning for work[2].

So hows it been going with the code? Apart from a gazillion rewrites due to
cyclic imports and other catch-22 issues it's ... OK. In fact I just managed a
proper login with two players: Diddymus and Tass[3]. Although the player files
that were loaded were hand written. It's also possible to login multiple times
with the same player as I have not done the checking to prevent it yet. I need
to do some clean up from where I have been trying different approaches. There
is also the RecordJar writer to implement as well.

I'll probably do the cleanup first so that those that don't mind creating
player files manually can have some fun ;)

What else was I going to say? Oh yes. I'm probably going to drop the changes I
added for crowds. It's nice to be able to support thousands of players but is
it really practical? For huge numbers of players you need a huge world and if
you have a huge world how are you going to find other players? [4]

Lastly what the fsck is up with Google recently? Hangouts, YouTube, Gmail and
Groups all seem *really* flaky - even when running the latest Chrome browser.

--
Diddymus

  [1] The Wizard of Oz, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1939)

  [2] I have 3 alarms going off plus a radio alarm clock plus my wife giving
      me a dig and leaving a coffee - she leaves for work early - and I can
      still sleep through all of it if I'm not careful. Coffee always gets
      cold :(

  [3] Yes, as in Tasslehoff Burrfoot from the Dragonlance books which were
      very popular around 1984-5 and I've used it ever since as a backup/2nd
      character :)

  [4] This is a conclusion I came to after reading 'The Decline of MMOs' by
      Richard Bartle. See https://www.mud.co.uk/richard/papers.htm for the PDF.


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