So long

…without a post. Heh. Sorry. Too many programming stuff and playing games. I didn’t even finish the solution of Puzzle 2 yet. Perhaps it will be a good activity to fill in my free time at college. 😛 I do want the solutions to be all up and running, though, so let’s just hope that I get the motivation to do it instead of procrastinating and do something else. 😛

I have a tumblr! I will post random rambles there. I think I posted this somewhere:

“tumblr to WordPress is like Twitter to Facebook in my opinion. Twitter allows short status updates while Facebook allows longer status updates; WordPress will be my place for more serious posts and tumblr will be my place for less serious posts.”

…oops that’s paraphrased from my tumblr blog which none of you should have known before this.

I’m developing my site too. Yes, yet another remake. That will also contain a lot of my projects, including but not limited to crossposting puzzles there and developing my Alternate Universe to be more documented (hence allowing it to be more complex). This blog will keep being my blog, with all puzzles being posted; then again, I haven’t figured out how to implement a blog system to my site and I’m too lazy to use WordPress.org or something. I’m still going without any money out from my pocket, save for the cost of internet.

Alright, that’s enough update for now, I think. I might be participating at Indian Puzzle Championship (obviously as an unofficial participant); the “might” is because it’s hard to estimate my availability. But with the participation window of 48 hours, I think it’s 95% guaranteed that I’ll have time. So, expect my name on the scoreboard (it’s still scoreboard even if I’m not the top 20 or so) 😛

Blog-related Stuffs and Statistics

Originally I wanted to make another IMO post, but I’ll start with this first because of the…uh…weirdness I find. Also linking to verbose blog title for random reasons, most likely because this post also contains heavy random statistics.

1. There are two comments filtered to my spam comment. One I decided to approve, and the other one I decided to delete. I mention this because I’m unable to determine whether they are spam comments or not. The one deleted said “I can not figure out how do I subscribe to your weblog”. I’m not sure whether WordPress allowed non-WordPress users to follow another blog without signing up (enter e-mail address) without the blog’s owner needing to put the follow widget, so there you go.

2. Top searches in the past 7 days:
imo 2012 problem 6: Here you go. I didn’t solve it, but now I get the solution with that cursed +12 induction.
betaveros imo taiwan: This is his blog; ask him if you have any questions about him.
imo geometry blog: Ask betaveros above. I’m a combinatorics person, and train my geometry like 1% of my math time. I think he trained his geometry way more than me.
angle chasing imo problems: Try to see Problems 1 or 4 in past IMOs. I distinctly remember IMO 2006 P1 and IMO 2012 P1; I don’t remember any else solvable with only angle chasing (plus concyclicity and simple stuffs like that).
solutions of imo argendina 2012: Why it’s spelled “argendina” -_- See here.
indonesian position in imo 2012 in mar del plata , argentina: 35th position, getting a total of 100 points and claiming 1 silver, 3 bronze, 1 HM.
in mario and sonic in the olympics winter games how do you get the speedster emblems: O.o Uh the best advice is to stock up Mushrooms, then in some steep hill you should jump and use five at once to boost your speed to 250+ kph and maintaining it because you don’t touch the ground.

3. Top five posts/pages in the past 7 days:
Home page / Archive: Obvious
IMO 2012 Post 1: Probably because I’m listing as a series, so people start by the first of the series.
IMO 2012 Post 3: Probably because it’s on the main page, explaining why it gets more traffic than Post 2.
Puzzle 7: Yay Number In Order gets quite some traffic. Why it gets more than Puzzle 6…perhaps because it’s more on the top of the main page than Puzzle 6?
IMO 2012 Post 2: Hm pretty obvious if people are reading my series.

Done with statistics and stuffs, time to make IMO 2012 Post 4.

ACPRiddle is no more

In place of it, as well as a full website redesign, will be an entrely new riddle project… Okay, codenamed “URLQuest III” for the time being, but it will feature more distinctive features.

My plan is to have a new feature where URL is no longer something you need to change; instead, you have a “virtual URL” where the URL you send will be processed. So all pages (all in a stage, at least) will have the same URL, although different virtual URLs.

Next, there will be “lives” feature. When you answer incorrectly, you lose a life; if you lose all lives, you must wait before you may submit again. Lives are replenished as time goes. Don’t worry though; you get extra lives at places you’ll need it.

Speaking of extra lives… Yes, you have your very own inventory! Most of the time you will have lives, keys, and trophies. Keys are found in levels, which is actually only a pair of name/value so you can store them offline. Trophies, as usual, are the marks of accomplishing a stage or finding something.

Next, missed the Hints Page? The Hints Page is now available at the start, with locks… When you enter a keycode given in a level, you will get the hint for the level. Additionally, you may also receive some kind of step-by-step guide of solving it. Of course there’s a price… You have some gold, to be exchanged for one hint each. Replenished way longer than lives though…

But again, that is if I can do it. At this rate of business, I won’t finish everything before July or something. So…anyone wants to help me?

And why am I doing at 12.30 AM?