Misc Updates

Stuff I've been doing:

• Working on a total conversion mod for Sauerbraten
  
• Playing the Flight Simulator X demo... the graphics don't look nearly as good as the prerelease screenshots. Why can companies not just show real content before release? It only makes the potential customers angry.
• Learning Maya for #1 above; I use Maya because it's one of the only 3D modelling tools that doesn't insist on drawing it's own ugly interface instead of using the default
• Writing a crypto utility in Java; it's going to be single-key because I don't understand how asymmetric keys work
• Debating between a Microsoft Technet account and a Wii over the next few months
• Testing Windows Server 2003 Datacenter SP2... MS seems to love the testers enough to trust them with multi-thousand-dollar software, which I appreciate. If only they would give us decent download speeds... even public links are faster!