{"id":788,"date":"2005-10-20T20:33:25","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T23:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=788"},"modified":"2005-10-20T20:51:55","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T23:51:55","slug":"a-most-uh-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"A most -uh- day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/span>esterday, I concluded my search for some code and (particularly) database schemas and gave in to the fears that it was a lost cause. A couple of years ago, I started a PHP framework for a game that I don&#8217;t dare to mention here because only mentioning the intention to build such a game does make a certain company go after their (well-protected) trademarks.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, after a frantic search that ended up with me (legitimately) breaking the password for the root account of one of my oldest linux servers [after 3 years I forget passwords too, yes], I gave up and considered the data: (<font color=\"red\">warning<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.burningbird.net\/2005\/10\/05\/the-time-is-now1997\/\">Web 1.0 HTML code ahead<\/a>! If you don&#8217;t have a Web 1.0 compatible browser, <font color=\"green\">please<\/font> consider <font color=\"yellow\">downloading<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu\/SDG\/Software\/Mosaic\/NCSAMosaicHome.html\">Mosaic<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h1><center><blink>gone<\/blink><\/center><\/h1>\n<p>Next time, I do these kinds of things, remind me to make snapshots of code. Actually, I already do that (I rescued plenty of code from the Binary Heaven recently) but in the case of the previously mentioned framework, well, I guess I did forego that. I&#8217;ll probably start recoding that stuff, if I can make some time. Before you know it, I&#8217;ll end up becoming a millionaire. You heard it here first.\n<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat related: Looking for other webbased stuff around, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/merchempires.sourceforge.net\/\">Merchant Empires<\/a>: a game that actually <a href=\"http:\/\/merchempires.sourceforge.net\/snapshot02.png\">seems to look good<\/a> for a &#8216;turn-based browserbased&#8217; game. But for heaven&#8217;s sake, it runs on a mix of C, Python, PHP and Postgres (I like Postgres). <em>Man<\/em>, I&#8217;d love to run that on my <em>home-server<\/em>, but that wouldn&#8217;t really bring a-uh-yes-crowd&#8230; unless I started providing free Wi-Fi around and&#8230; and&#8230; You could also try to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtap.com\/news\/headlines\/1812326.html\">buy lottery tickets<\/a>. Bonne chance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I concluded my search for some code and (particularly) database schemas and gave in to the fears that it was a lost cause. A couple of years ago, I started a PHP framework for a game that I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=788\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}