Attila the Ratcatcher

Killed 6 rats today.


Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles,
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats,
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.

The Wisdom of Crowds

For the past couple of days Wikipedia on my Chrome browser has been displaying as blue and it was starting to irritate me.



So I typed "Why is wikipedia blue" in google. The top answers was below. It was asked 2 days ago and already had an answer.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

If you are using Chrome, it's a bug. Try making your zoom 100%. That worked for me. :)

If you are using Chrome then to see the bug you have to zoom out in the browser. Hold down the CONTROL key and rotate the mouse wheel towards yourself.

It's a good illustration of the Wisdom of Crowds.

Chateau Gaillard

I have just published my first sourceforge project. I'm quite proud of it. There's still some more rationalisation to go but it basically works.

Click here to download (for linux, windows or Mac OSX).

Just double click on the executable (cg.exe in windows, for Linux and Mac you will have to open a terminal window and just type cg_lnx or cg_osx at the prompt (haven't figured out how to do it automatically yet.

It is based on a BASIC Adventure game written for Creative Computing magazine about 30 years ago.

To download and play click on the link below. Have fun ...

https://sourceforge.net/projects/chateaugaillard/files/latest/download

The Petulant Geek has spoken.

postscript (05/04/12): It is amazing how many bugs you publish something. I found out the program does not work in Windows7 from my Dad. I bloke in India thought it needed a help command and my son found several bugs in the fighting algorithm.