Winds of Change

OK, I admit. The title is not entirely accurate. Not only because the original thing is "Wind of Change" (singular,) but also because things are not changing, but things are happening.

I know, I haven't been writing anything interesting here for a while (have I ever?) but many things have been happening. Let me give you an overview.

My ADSL was out again. And it happened over the weekend so I just had two days without connectivity. It just came back on!

My phone was out for a month. I just checked and it was back too! Although it could have been back for a week.

My cellphone was disconnected because of a dispute between me and the telecom company. It's not resolved, but my service is renewed (because I paid the damn outrageous bill.)

We are holding another programming contest in IAUM (that's my university.) The contest is called "IAUM-CCC 3". It has three rounds. An Internet-based first round and two on-site rounds at the end of Mordad (second half of August.) Hope to see you then (I will see you then, because I already know every body who occasionally reads my babbling!)

The first part of my graphics programming tutorial is almost finished. It's awful! But I'll post it as soon as I can.

I'm thinking about writing a one-part tutorial about ripping a DVD and making a good-quality DivX file (XviD, rather) out of it. Is there any interest?

I've had several other (two actually) algorithm implementations (a GCD algorithm, and one for finding the nearest pair of points) lined up to post. Hadn't have the time to clean them up and organize my thoughts.

I have also written a cryptography library (a very simple, albeit useful one.) I brushed it up and made a manual for it. I will post more soon. The library is called "yCrypto" by the way.)

Well, that's it. For now. Over and out.