Category Archives: Puzzle Non-Puzzles

Did I ever say my computer broke like a month or two ago?

I think I forgot to say that here. To be precise, it started from like late January to February; fixed it by buying a new hard disk altogether on 21 February, thus having all my data lost. This includes a good amount of my puzzle images (I still work with Excel, yes, and that single worksheet went away), a good amount of Word documents (I usually have my PDFs published elsewhere, but without the Word it’s going to be some pain to rewrite them in case I want to edit–I’m too perfectionist sometimes), and other things.

Lesson: Back up.

Meanwhile, I’ll point you at this insanity. I haven’t matched that in terms of presentation (although I think I made a couple of insane variants, trying to match other works). Sooo… We’ll see if I have time to squeeze out something. Hey, I’m busy with college life + a future LMI test + Mystery Hunt + [insert other things here]…

Happy New Year!

Unlike last year, I don’t have any puzzle planned. I’m constructing an LMI test for April or May, and considering that I just finished my first semester of university a week or so ago, I’ve been taking the holiday for my usual computer stuff: programming, browsing the net, playing some games…

So what have I done in 2013?

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New Laptop

I have a new laptop. The previous laptop is still in service.

So, because I’m not that much into hardware, I’ll just say that it still suffices for me so far. I’m more concerned about the software.

I haven’t had time to get Microsoft Office. Either 2007 or 2010. So I’m using OpenOffice, but at the moment it looks terrible for making puzzle grids (I can’t set column width/row height in pixels argh, too lazy to keep converting from pixels to centimeters). Not to mention that I’m too used to MS Office’s ribbon menu. So don’t expect new puzzles for a while, until I get MS Office in.

PUZ-PRE v3

Remember this puzzle?

Yes, I hope I can start using applets. But then, I often do variations, so applets are not going to cover everything. Should begin making JavaScript Fillomino applets. (Well I do Fillomino a lot, so I’ll aim for making Fillomino applets first.) Anyone knows a good puzzle applet that supports many variations?