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[ site: welcome to blackwind.org! ]

Well, it took just over 11 years, but I finally did it -- I rolled up my sleeves, greased up my typing fingers, and snatched blackwind.org from the depths of the discarded domain pool earlier this morning! As you might expect, this domain will be the new home of bwProductions, and XS has been permanently laid to rest. Forget about my haphazard mixing of latin roots, forget about my senseless use of square brackets to further confuse and bewilder my audience, and forget about your total inability to even *recall* such claptrap, for this is the dawn of a whole new era...

(...of inactivity.)

blackwind.org - Simple, to the point, and always slightly to the left. Catch the wave!

[ Posted: 2007-04-10 @ 12:51pm by blackwind - 0 Comment(s) ]

[ personal: rock the vote! ]

Not that I expect anyone to see this, but if you do and you're a fan of The Colbert Report, check out my post over at Colbert Nation. The gist of it is, the Hungarian government has created a site on which you can vote for the name of a new bridge they're building, and I wrote a program to hammer that site with votes for "The Stephen Colbert Bridge". Unless you hate America, we expect you to join in on the voting action NOW! After all, if you don't, the terrorists win.

UPDATE (2006-08-20): As of August 20th, 1:00pm EST, Stephen Colbert has 3,558,559 votes -- 1.5 million more than his closest competitor, Hungarian hero Miklos Zrinyi.

UPDATE (2006-09-08): It's official! Stephen has just won the second and final round of voting with 93,163 votes -- about 81,000 of which can be attributed to bridge2.exe. Throughout the entire campaign, I estimate that my programs have accounted for no less than 16,000,000 votes (or ~93% of all votes cast for Mr. Colbert). Once again, you're welcome, Stephen.

[ Posted: 2006-08-16 @ 08:42pm by blackwind - 8 Comment(s) ]

[ release: bnchat 2.0.1 ]

The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 has been released. To celebrate this occasion, I've updated all of our .NET 1.1 applications to .NET 2.0. Most noteworthy, of course, is bnChat 2.0.1, which features a much higher level of speed and stability than that of its .NET 1.1 counterpart. All bnChat users are urged to upgrade at their earliest convenience.

[ Posted: 2005-11-08 @ 03:07pm by blackwind - 0 Comment(s) ]

[ release: yawtzee 1.45 ]

After installing a fresh copy of Yawtzee on another computer for the very first time, I couldn't resist releasing Yawtzee 1.45. As it turns out, while the game gels like Magellan on my machine, it had a few funky quirks elsewhere that I never picked up on. Well, no more! Yawtzee should now look and act like I've always intended. May the peasants rejoice!

[ Posted: 2005-10-28 @ 04:25am by blackwind - 1 Comment(s) ]