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The Matrix: Reloaded was even better than I had hoped. If you haven't seen it already, I suggest you do. Pronto. What I loved about this movie (apart from all the cool action scenes and all the cool talking) was the humor. It was elegant and it reminded me of certain events in the original Matrix movie.

The day I've been waiting for has finally arrived. The Norwegian premier of The Matrix: Reloaded (yes, we are a little slow up north). I am looking soooo forward to this. It will be good. I know it.

The Matrix has me.

After days of blood, sweat and countless hours of browsing the net, tracing lost mods and frustration over those not found (oh, and not to mention the poorly designed web pages for some of these mods), I release the Half-Life singleplayer modification links. Perhaps there still are some excellent mods looming around on the net; when I'm no longer sick and tired of Half-Life, I might decide to track them down. In the meantime, these mods should provide you with several hours of entertainment. They did for me. Boy, did they ever...

I'm still playing those Half-Life mods, but it turned out to be a little more than I thought. I was thinking of just releasing the links now and add links as I finish more mods, but I soon rejected that thought; I want to do one major update. Be patient. It's gonna be massive...

While you're waiting for those awesome links, you might want to play around with a kinetics simulation program, a particle simulation program and a water simulation program.

I fixed the PNG trouble on the Graphs & Functions essay. It seems that all the images lost their transparency when I ran them through pngrewrite. What puzzles me, though, is that they displayed properly in Opera, with transparency, when there wasn't any transparency on the images... So I decided not to pngrewrite them. Annoying. Still, PNGs are small.

Fixed an idiotic bug on the Test page and an insane error in the Graphs & Functions essay. See if you can find them.

I have learned how to derive the quadratic formula, and have updated the essay on Graphs & Functions accordingly. There seems to be a problem with displaying the PNG images in MSIE, though. I'm still trying to resolve that. Hopefully, the majority of you people are smart enough to avoid MSIE altogether, and use e.g. Opera instead.

Even was so kind as to make some list item images for me! I'm utterly pleased. :-D

Still playing those mods. I've finished three of them, but there's a few more I'd like to play before I update the links. They're actually turning into small reviews. Small... semi-reviews.

Finished Blue Shift. On to the mods.

I'm utterly pleased; my ISP has increased the speed of my Internet to 4 Mbit/sec for this weekend (only). (It applies to all customers, of course.) I'm not really sure why they do it, but it's probably for publicity. Heck, I don't care! As long as I get my oh-so-sweet 4 Mbit/sec Internet, I'm happy. Urge to download... rising!

Still playing Half-Life. Expect the mod links in the time span of 12th May to 16th May. Maybe earlier.

Alf Otto has launched his personal page today. Finally. It was loooong overdue. :-)

Finished HL:OpFor. Next up, HL:BS.

Finished Half-Life today (yesterday, I was on Questionable Ethics, part 10 out of 17). Onwards to HL:OpFor.

I've been bitten by the Half-Life bug, meaning that I'm going to play the original Half-Life (with the High Definition pack applied), Half-Life: Opposing Force, Half-Life: Blue Shift, and various excellent single-player mods for Half-Life. (In that order.) Once I've finished those mods, I'll make a Half-Life mod section on the Links page.

I've made all header elements use the Palatino Linotype font. It looks nice in symbiosis with Verdana. :-)

I searched acronymfinder.com for NSF, and it turned up five rather interesting matches (the text enclosed in parenthesis was not written by me):

• Norges Sjakkforbund (Norwegian Chess Association)
• Norges Standardiseringsforbund
• Norsk Speider Forbund (Norwegian Scout Association)
• Norway, Sweden, Finland (in order, left to right)

And, surprisingly, it turned up with the match I actually wanted to see:

• Northwest Secessionist Forces (Deus-Ex game)