Archive for April, 2006

New server, new address, new WordPress

So I did the mother of all updates yesterday; new server, new address, new WordPress-version. Not everything is 107 percent yet, but I’ll try to find some time this evening to sort stuff out.
Most importantly: Thank you Erik for hosting the gglob so far!

Sudoku, math and serious games

One more very short post to advertise for an informatics seminar at the University of Bergen that I would have liked to go to if I could; “On combinatorial precursors of Sudoku” by Douglas Rogers.
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Review: Tetris DS

Tetris DSI remember quite vividly the first time I tried a version of Tetris. It was the excellent Twintris on a friend of mine’s trusty Amiga 500 in 1990. My friend had played the game for some days and kept beating me in it’s two-player mode. When he said his secret was to take into account the next piece as well as the one currently in the well I thought that was just too autisticly imposslible to be true. Now; 21 years after Pazhitnov et al invented the game, Nintendo launches a revamped version for their beloved DS simply called Tetris DS. In classic mode here you can see, not just one, but six blocks into the future and you have the possibility to put one block on hold. Nasty.
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