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The blogosphere tilted on its axis slightly last week when Donald Knuth had a birthday, and every Computer Science geek rushed to provide a tribute.

In this article, I describe how I wrote some software to tackle the Slitherlinks puzzles.

My doctor’s bookshelf is rated PG.

The Compact Monthly Archive (CMA) Widget has just been released at 1.0.

This widget has been on the sidebar on the left of OddThinking for 9 months, but now it is available for you own WordPress blog.

This article focuses on that message-passing system and the variants I have tried in the puzzle-solving architecture that has evolved over a number of pet projects.

This article includes some Slitherlinks tips for players who understand the basics and want to tackle the medium and hard examples.

When you are a kid, making art is the only job that you can do to pay your way. Colouring-in is the closest you have to real responsibility.

With XHTML validity, new JavaScript, better caching and the first new palindromic version number since 1.0.1.

Click on the EmailShroud 2.2 link on the menu on the left, or go the long way round.

It was a tough bet to accept. At that age, a dollar was a lot of money for me. I was going to have to make some sacrifices, scrimping for the first five years until the debt was paid, but then I was going to be on Easy Street, collecting twenty cents a year, every year, for virtually no effort.

Virus 2 is a flash game with a disturbing name, but quite simple game-play.

I set out to solve it under some arbitrary constraints.