Saturday 6 March 1999

Pic of the day: Here was once a thriving Greek colony.
I've played a bit Civ2 (with my trade world scenario) today. Civ2 requires quite a bit of micromanagement if you want to win on the higher levels. Yes, you can instruct the cities to build stuff automatically. But the build queue is global, whereas the terrains will vary. For instance, if there's a lot of good food near the town, you better build temples and aquaducts early on. If there's mostly water, ports should figure near the top. You'll soon lose the leading edge if you let the computer think for you.

For some reason, I didn't crash into bed until around 3 last night. Being very tired, I fell asleep at once and forgot to turn off the clock radio that usually wakes me each morning. To top it, on Saturday morning some bloke at the National Broadcasting played a loud and lively song ("Go'morgen Norge" = Good Morning Norway). A total wakeup song. Waaah.

Skipped the macaroni & cheese today, under doubt, and bought heaps of ice cream and chocolate. But it just isn't the same. Hopefully I'll have spaghetti stuff tomorrow at least.

Except for shopping and playing, I took a long walk, where I listened to music and came up with new details for my novel. It's pretty far from earning me a novel prize yet, though. Also I've been unusually active on Usenet. I try to not be preachy, but let's face it: Years of prayer and bible studies don't give you the leading edge in sexual innuendo. Oh well. There may be other ways to make friends and influence people, though I can't remember any offhand.

Somewhat belatedly, I looked up the homepages of rasfwr-j regular Amy Gray. The page is very gentle on your browser, with no forced graphics, no java or plugins. The open, no-nonsense style reveals a young person with healthy interests. Another proof that you don't need to be a techie nerd to make your own web pages. Why don't you do it today, if you haven't already? And be sure to tell me. I won't advertise it if it's too horrible. :)