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I've been dancing on rice-paper for 25¹ years now. One of these days I'll stop leaving footprints! Have only recently fallen in love with Perl (although I'll have to admit to concurrent affairs with Python, Scheme, C and assembler(any)) and really enjoy having fun while programming again. Most of my work for money and work for fun resolves to building ad hoc parsers typically for one of a kind data conversions of some sort and of course Perl is perfect for this kind of work. Another fascination centers around webwork—again made painless by Perl, (my current fixer-upper is http://www.sdragons.com). Any one out there want to hear about converting chess games to XML with Perl? That is my current piece of work and I'd be happy to babble about it...

Update: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 1:16:14 PM

While I'm still playing with PGNXML, I confess to backsliding into fractals! Can't help it—couldn't resist the challenge of 24–bit color and pretty pictures!

Update: Thursday, February 28, 2002 15:01:00

Haven't played around with fractals in months. Am still playing with PGNXML and for that matter PGN and Perl. So much so that there is now a perl-chess list hosted at Yahoo. Join with email to perl-chess-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. There is strength in numbers, a CPAN search on PGN will show an expanding universe of hopefully useful stuff--it will also show that fellow monk gmax does not labor alone!

Things to get around to:

• finish and post wild module At least posted...
• suggest voting scheme for books Been there, done that
• suggest "How To's"

Things obsessive

• Literate Programming—www.literateprogramming.com
• Fractals
• The Titanic²
• Chess—Internet Chess Club as hsmyers
• Chess Programming
• Chess Publishing³
• Books⁴

Hugh S. Myers (hsm)
¹roughly equal to life/2...
²yes, I know it sank and I have gotten over it—still...
³hmmmm, this seems to be a trend! ++Chess!
⁴Doh!— how could I leave out Books!...

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Last Touched: Fri Oct 25 06:41:00 MST 2002