This page generally only reports the most notable changes. You’ll have to explore to find the additions to the world.

Latest What’s New

12/30/2008 v579
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce

• You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!

12/3/2008 v575
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires. - Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

• Happy Skristmas!
• Happy Thoomas!
• Happy Bawkmas!

11/12/2008 v572
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. - Buddha Siddharta Gautama (c. 563–483 BC)

• No crashes in 231 days and counting. The record is 723 days.

10/22/2008 v569
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. - Ernestine Ulmer

• No crashes in 210 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
• Some unscrupulous players abused a bug that resulted in infinite coin gain. Unfortunately, we had no choice but to reset from October 17 back to October 15. We gave everyone some experience on the 17th to compensate for the lost time. See the Sentinel for more details.
• A few folks were inadvertently left out when experience was handed out after the roll-back. If you didn’t see the experience on the 17th, you should see it now.
• You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!

10/1/2008 v566
Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different. - Bill Watterson

• No crashes in 189 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
• You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!

9/13/2008 v563
The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry. - Arabian proverb

• You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!

8/20/2008 v560
Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerald M. Edelman, quoted by Oliver Sacks

• You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!

7/31/2008 v557
Prejudices are what fools use for reason. - Voltaire (1694–1778)

• A sanguine approach to life is considered by many to be the best course.
• The Chaos Storm leading into v557 will last a bit longer than usual so we can perform some server maintenance. Expect 30-60 minutes of downtime. Thanks for your understanding.

7/9/2008 v554
You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.... Last-minute panic. - Bill Watterson, in “Calvin & Hobbes”

• You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!

6/18/2008 v551
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. - Frederick Koenig

• No crashes in 84 days and counting. The record is 723 days.

5/29/2008 v548
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln, speaking about... ?

• No crashes in 64 days and counting. The record is 723 days.

5/8/2008 v545
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel Boorstin

• You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s other changes. Enjoy!

4/18/2008 v542
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote the freedom to err. - Mahatma Gandhi

• You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s other changes. Enjoy!

3/27/2008 v539
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. - James Gibbons Huneker

• Sometimes it’s worth pausing to remember our origins.

3/5/2008 v536
All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• No crashes in 701 days and counting.
• The giant Windows client-and-data package has been fixed.
• The experimental @my.shares_out and @my.shares_in macro feature mentioned last time is now available in the Windows client too. But it’s still experimental.
• You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s other changes. Enjoy!

2/13/2008 v533
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed. - Jim Rohn, “motivational speaker”

• A rare bug that crashed the client when running very long macros (usually from bard songs) has been fixed.
• We’re aware of some problems with the new account pages and are working on them. Thanks for your patience and understanding while we sort things out.
• New (experimental) macro features in the Mac client: @my.shares_in and @my.shares_out, holding your incoming and outgoing sharers’ names (in simple_name form). You can count how many incoming shares you have like so:
  set sharers @my.shares_in
  set num_shares sharers.num_words
  and extract them individually using sharers.word[1], sharers.word[2], etc.

  Warning, this feature is preliminary. Use it at your own risk — but if you do find any problems, please report them! Once we get the bugs ironed out, if it turns out to be widely useful, it’ll be added to the Windows client as well.

1/23/2008 v530
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. - Charles Caleb Colton

• No crashes in 659 days and counting.
• You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!

1/2/2008 v527
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. - Oscar Wilde

• Happy New Year!

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