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Jon Dowland

Thu Feb 4 09:54:28 2010

Id Software have released a port of Doom for the iPhone. What makes this exciting for me is the lineage of this code. the iPhone port is derived from prboom. Peeking around in the source code, there's some of my code in there (p_checksum.[ch]) as well as some code I borrowed from dpkg (md5.[ch], thanks to Colin Plumb and Ian Jackson). This stuff is unlikely to actually be run on the iPhone, mind (although I think I have some patches against p_enemy.c which will).

John Carmack has some interesting words about developing the app.

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Jon Dowland

Fri Jan 15 11:48:42 2010

The weather in January in the UK is normally very drab, and this January has been no exception. Despite this I've found myself uncharactistically upbeat. I'm enjoying work, I've got a lot to do, and I feel like I'm making real progress in "real life" too. (It's a shame Debian has taken a back seat for the time being...)

This morning was marginally less drab.

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Jon Dowland

Thu Jan 14 14:53:49 2010

An excellent Linux Journal article on the improvements made to music software on Linux during 2009:

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Jon Dowland

Wed Jan 13 21:06:01 2010

I'm no longer on hold - the call was disconnected after 1 hour and 9 minutes. Yay for O2!

Jon Dowland

Wed Jan 13 20:55:54 2010

I've been on hold to my mobile phone provider for over an hour. However, in that time, I've take a massive bite out of my miscellaneous TODO list. That feels good!