googling your weblog

Dave Winer has integrated a demo of his new software into his weblog. The software integrates weblogs and google search in a new way. Nice!.

'Erikdotted'

Erik now has a column in the Java Developer's Journal Newsletter. Congrats Erik! (A link to just the column can be found here). And for his first column he included a link to the my entry announcing the clevercactus release--and some of the comments that followed. Thanks!.

go

Today I was thinking of looking for something to relax the mind a little...

There aren't that many games that I find interesting (that includes computer games too). Chess is ok, but mostly I find it too structured and relatively predictable (meaning: often boring--and please no flames from Chess fans, that's just my preference :-)). But a few years back I discovered Go and it immediately became my favorite game. I used to play it back in California with a friend during lunch-breaks; it was a blast. If you have never tried it, I recommend it highly. My favorite program to play against is TurboGo, but the British Go Association mantains a useful list of versions of Go for different platforms. For Windows, Wulu is also good, I haven't yet tried any of the Mac games.

In any case, when playing Go nothing beats having the board and the stones in front of you--the sheer simplicity of it, along with its seemingly unending possibilities for different games (that I mentioned a few months ago). We'll probably have to wait until immersive VR becomes a reality to be able to match the full "experience"... (now that would be funny: using fully immersive VR only to... play Go. :-))