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Okeeeeuuuuuuay..... that was strange. Two days late for updating the poll of the week. GASP! That's a new record! I'm really sorry, I'll try not to do that again. Anyway, about the poll for last week... the results weren't really helpful. Take a look:

Yes! The blog can be a seperate secton! - 2 vote(s)! Yes! The blog needs to be re-done! - 0 vote(s)! Not really... - 2 vote(s)! Indifferent. - 1 vote(s)!

Oops! Darn it, I misspelled another word for an entire week and didn't notice! Sorry again!

Random.

...eating corn? - 3 vote(s)! ...watching a bad TV show? - 0 vote(s)! ...doing homework? - 0 vote(s)! ...getting mugged? - 0 vote(s)!

I KNOW! Anyway, happy Palm Sunday, everyone! Only 1 more week until Easter!

In other news, the development of Xidet is going fine. The main base is complete, but the modularity system needs to be further along in it's development and some more modules need to be written before Xidet can be released.

You may remember me last month saying that I would release a new version of Tetrgi on March 3rd, but now have seen that I haven't. There is a good reason for this. I'm working on a new project called Xidet

Xidet is a text editor. Now, don't roll your eyes. Xidet is much better than Notepad or VI (well, I guess everything is better than VI) because while at first run, it will look a lot like Notepad with, is it possible, missing features, Xidet contains a modularity system which allows TONS of plugins written for Xidet to be modded in which can give Xidet anything from a simple Edit menu to a tabbed interface or code syntax hightlighting.

Xidet is a very important project. The reason this has anything to do with Tetrgi being late is because I've decided to postpone all other projects until the first release of Xidet is out, becuase I am sick and tired of having to either, for Java, use NetBeans to program (it's really slow), or for C++, use nano, because while I like nano, I need to modify many files at once, which is why the Tabbed-Interface plugin for Xidet will be very important to me.

This week's poll was great. I don't really want to say much more, less you all run away thinking that a 'Feburary 22nd 2008' is going to happen again. So, without any further ado, and by the way, that's a very nice hairpiece, here are the result!

First - 0 vote(s)! Second - 0 vote(s)! Third (current) - 4 vote(s)! All/None/Don't Care/Don't Know - 1 vote(s)!

By the way, everyone, the holiday system has had a recent problem with the Easter-related holidays being a month too late. That's been fixed now, so you should be able to go on to trust the holiday system here at Four Island.

Well... I don't know how much I can say about this poll....

CVS - 0 vote(s)! Subversion - 2 vote(s)! GIT - 0 vote(s)! Other - 0 vote(s)!

And just to be on the excruciatingly random side, here's a screenshot of a gnome-terminal in Linux that I saw yesterday.

It was a dark and stormy night. On Feburary* 22nd 2008, a short man wearing a black leather coat that completely enveloped him walked up to a closed internet cafe. He taped something to the door and took two steps back. sssss A hole was burnt into the door. He reached through the hole and opened the door.

He walked up to a computer, turned it on, hacked past the login screen, and used IE to access http://www.fourisland.com. He looked at the Poll of the Week.... and let out a shriek. Someone had already voted from this location. Not only that, but the poll was a completely random one! He'd trekked all the way from Alabama so as to vote on the poll before Saturday, but it was not to be...

OK, that was REALLY random, but that just corresponds with the random poll. Here are the results:

Cat - 1 vote(s)! Dog - 2 vote(s)! Sheep - 0 vote(s)! Penguin - 0 vote(s)!

OK, with that over with, I would like to announce something about Tetrgi 2.1. I have set a release date for it on March 3rd. If anyone has any suggestions, please create a ticket for it in good time, so I have a chance to implement it and don't have to postpone the release.

And, just to compete with the randomity* of both the poll and its accompanying story, here's a random thing I found my XP machine doing yesterday: So do I, Adobe Updater, so do I.

*Note: I do have strange ways of spelling and pronouncing certain words that may seem like mistakes to other people. They were put there on purpose.

Guess what everyone? Two days ago Tetrgi 1.5 was tested on a real Windows computer, and worked. Because a 2.0 release of Tetrgi was planned for when 1.5 could be tweaked to work on Windows, Tetrgi 1.5 and 2.0 had to merge as there were no differences between them. The result is Tetrgi 1.5/2.0, the first stable version of Tetrgi.

You can get Tetrgi 1.5/2.0 at the Tetrgi Downloads page. Have fun!

As you may have noticed, the Projects section seems to have moved around quite a bit. Yes, that's because I've discovered a wonderful thing called Trac. A full-blown project system that allows each of my projects to have it's own Wiki, Ticket System (VERY useful!), Subversion Repository and Viewer, Roadmap (Milestones), Bitten (an extension that works much like Mozilla Tinderbox or Buildbot), a Timeline (Recent Changes) and to top it all off, it's all fully intergrated. From a page in the wiki, you can link to the fourth ticket by typing #4. From a ticket description, you can link to the 13th source commit by typing [13]. And so on!

Trac is a wonderful thing and I'm extremely happy to have found it. If you find bugs in any of my projects, or if you have a feature request, don't hesitate to make a Ticket for it!

Well, the GIT repository viewer seems to have been chosen... so lookie here, here are the results!

gitweb - 0 vote(s)! CGIT - 2 vote(s)! I don't know. - 2 vote(s)! I don't care. - 0 vote(s)!

In other news, a minor milestone just passed coincidentally on Valentine's day! 1337 hits!

Whew, quite a few votes this week! YAY! So, if you don't want to listen to me ramble about how much I like people voting on my polls, here are the results!

Chatting - 1 vote(s)! Programming - 2 vote(s)! Reading - 1 vote(s)! Playing games - 6 vote(s)!

Also, you may have noticed the GIT repository seems to have changed. In fact, it hasn't. The viewer has. I quite like both of them, so I'm leaving you to vote on which one I should stay with.

NOTE: The new one is CGIT, the other was gitweb.