While helping my wife getting some more boxes unloaded from the garage (reminds me of The Incredibles LOL), I came across a box containing all the books, plus adventure pamphlets for the first edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
HOLY VORPAL SWORD, BATMAN!
Everything is in almost mint condition too. I'm thinking of possibly creating a set of ruleset files using those book. That would be pretty cool. 
I was finally able to put together my new system. Gotta love quad-core with 12gigs of RAM! I need a third hard drive to put all of my dev projects, but I ran out of money. Fortunately, there is an IDE 500gig drive that I can plug in, until I get a new SATA drive sometime in the next couple months. I will be installing this drive tonight.
I upgraded my CMUD to CMUD Pro last night, and wanted to give it a spin. Went and tried it on StarMUD, my favorite MUD. It is sweet on my 28" monitors! I got a couple of them. It really help my old eyes. I'll see if I can get screenshots and pictures in the next few days.
I downloaded Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and installed it into a new Windows 7 virtual image. WheelMUD compiled without errors right away. I had the zero size database issue, but a quick file copy fixed that. It just amazes me that we got WheelMUD to work this well out of the box.
My health is a bag of mixed news. On one hand my headaches are getting worse, and have them every day. The Tinnitus keeps getting louder and louder. Fortunately, I found an Ear, Nose, Throat clinic that I feel comfortable with. I've scheduled an Endoscopic Sinus surgery for the 10th of December. I will be out aproximately one week. I'm hoping that this will deal with my isolation. Any strong smell makes me very sick, so I'm basically confined to my house and work. I can't go to malls, movies, and some restaurants, because I usually end up sick for a couple days afterward. I do know that my sinuses are swollen, and have been for several years. It just gotten much, much worse. I've eliminated a lot of posibilties, so that surgery is the last resort. The good news about this is that I'm both a good candidate, and that this endoscopic sinus surgery has had a LOT of sucess since it was implemented. I avoided getting the previous type of surgery, because it was basically just a roto-tiller up the sinuses.
Anyways, I will be ramping up my activity over here soon.
I created a small 32x32 gif logo to use in things like CMUD. I just hated the default icon, and why not use our own logo?
This is how I test the server. Here's the gif if anybody wants to use it:
I'm doing a presentation on Subversion to my local .NET User Group tomorrow night. I attend the Utah County .NET User Group. I'm also their webmaster.
This is the first time I have ever spoken at a user group. Fortunately for me, I have spoken in front of people a fair amount, so I'm not nervous. I've done consultant work on and off for about 7 years, so I've had to give plenty of presentations.
This will also be a good chance to show off PainlessSVN to a group of .NET developers. The user group's site is
http://www.ucnug.org
I just saw this on Rocky Lhotka's blog:
"I used to learn new technologies by writing games - specifically MUDs and then low-end MMORPGs (well, I wrote and rewrote parts of one that never really came together). Someday I'd like to get back to doing that."
And
"I've been feeling seriously burned out of late. That's not good. Part of it is due to the way travel grates on me more all the time, but most of it is that I haven't spent time doing truly exploratory things for a very long time now. CSLA has become quite consuming, and so my spare time goes into the framework, when I could be working on a .NET MUD engine or something really fun like that (I have these cool prototypes for truly dynamic world behavior that I'd love to pull together into something real)."
Here's the link to the whole blog post:
http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/BeingABetterDeveloperIn6Months.aspx
He's the author of CSLA, a DAL framework that I've used before. I think I talked with him about WheelMUD once upon a time. I've read several of his books. His stuff is always pretty good.
I got really tired of the DotNetNuke core Blog module, so I ripped it out and replaced it with this. It already bombed today, by not letting me edit and/or create new blog entries.
I haven't had time to customize the look of the module, but I will in time.
