Not the Project

It's strange how some evenings work out. This afternoon I had planned to write up the security practical that's due in after Easter. Instead, though, I happened to open up MMF at one point and found myself writing an entire impromptu competitive online mode for Treasure Tower. This is what passes as excitement for me. It's working reasonably well now, with a record of best times being passed from the game to a PHP page and then to yet another section of my rapidly growing MySQL database, but it needs some sort of security so that people can't cheat quite so easily at it. Just now all it has is a verification field that's generated using a fairly obvious formula.

And it also turns out that quadralien, e_to_the_ipi and allly_cs are going to comprise about half the Melville cabinet next year. I don't think that "surreal" even begins to describe this situation.