Holy damn, my brother just informed me that UK lost to Florida 63-5. We managed to beat Arkansas last week 21-20, I think was the final score, and we scraped that one out at the last minute in the fourth quarter. The South Carolina game we lost by maybe 3 points, a so-called “moral victory” because we played it so close, but moral victories don’t get you any closer to playing a bowl game: it’s still a loss. I figured we’d get stomped by Florida because we always get stomped by Florida, but 63 points? That’s not a football score, that sounds like it came from a damn basketball game! Sigh. I’m glad that was an away game and I didn’t feel some obligation to attend: I would have been freezing and depressed in the bleachers.

I swapped out secondary themes from Pink Flower to Simple Color, which is bright and light and image-free, if you want something quick-loading. It was mainly aimed at my mother, who is still using Firefox 1.0.4 (!!) without Javascript and with the minimum font size set to 16. Pink Flower was her choice over Round Black because R.B.’s CSS menu navigation didn’t work correctly in FF 1, and the dark background wasn’t easy for her to read on. I’ve only tested Simple Color in FF 1, but I’m guessing it’ll look and work fine in the various other browsers and versions of IE.

As soon as I get a grade for my latest programming assignments in operating systems and artificial intelligence, I’ll post the code up here in hopes it’ll help someone in the future. The AI assignment was to implement A* search and best-first search in whatever language we chose (I chose Ruby), for the purpose of solving a randomly generated fifteen-puzzle. The OS assignment was to write a simple shell script in C or C++ that runs commands without using system and can handle a single pipe (e.g. ls | grep my_file) or a single redirect (e.g. ls >> new.txt).

Edit: I put up a new piece of digital art tonight, created in GIMP by starting with this tutorial.