Had a lot of early mornings and late nights recently and I haven’t not yawned at least once a minute for the last hour or so. So I’m going to put Iron Man in the DVD player, which I couldn’t watch properly last time it was on due to watching my baby daughter, and snooze.
That is all. I’m too exhausted to write more.
I have recently been rereading The Immortal Game by David Shenk. When I say rereading I am listening via audio book this time as I have been nodding off to sleep.
It’s always a difference experience reading via listening.
Anyway. To the point. I have been studying the game and it’s brilliance and discovered this image via wikipedia:
The Immortal Game
Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky played this game out in 1851 at the Simpson’s-in-the-Strand Divan in London.
I’ll find a permanent place for this image soon.
I have spent the night watching history in the making.
Barack Obama is to be the new President of the United States.
There are times in a lifetime when you realise that something special is happening. Something that will change the world for the better. Something that is literally history in the making.
Watching this landslide victory unfold it was easy to forget that some black people of America alive today once did not even have the right to vote, and today they have a black president.
That’s the historical.
But even more important is what Obama stands for and where, hopefully, he will take America and the world. A country that has been hated, and in some cases laughed at, in recent years around the world has taken it’s first steps to rebuild it’s reputation.
From voting in a dangerous clown for two terms in office I truly believe that an amazing change is coming.
I had shivers down my spine watching his victory speech.
Well done America. Well done President Obama.
Video of my 1 year 1 month old daughter doing a rather good impression of a cat.
Buggy as hell!
The new 3D match engine seems pretty enough however watching the other team score while you are substituting your goalkeeper and there is an empty net isn’t quiet so entertaining.
I played 2 matches and then the game crashed.
I will be holding out for the patched retail version I think.
Back to FM 2008 for me.
[Site "Bonn GER"]
[Date "2008.10.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Kramnik, V."]
[Black "Anand, V."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D14"]
[WhiteElo "2772"]
[BlackElo "2783"]
[Annotator "Fritz 11 (120m)"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "2008.10.14"]
{D14: Slav Defence: Exchange variation with …Bf5} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3
Nf6 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Bf4 Nc6 6. e3 Bf5 7. Nf3 e6 8. Qb3 Bb4 9. Bb5 O-O 10. Bxc6
Bxc3+ 11. Qxc3 Rc8 12. Ne5 Ng4 13. Nxg4 Bxg4 {last book move} 14. Qb4 Rxc6 15.
Qxb7 Qc8 16. Qxc8 Rfxc8 17. O-O a5 18. f3 {
White threatens to win material: f3xg4} Bf5 19. Rfe1 Bg6 20. b3 f6 {
Prevents intrusion on e5+g5} 21. e4 dxe4 22. fxe4 Rd8 {
Black threatens to win material: Rd8xd4} 23. Rad1 Rc2 24. e5 fxe5 25. Bxe5 {
‘the bishop is the bishop!’.} Rxa2 26. Ra1 Rxa1 {Black pins: Ra1xe1} 27. Rxa1
Rd5 28. Rc1 Rd7 29. Rc5 {White threatens to win material: Rc5xa5} Ra7 30. Rc7
Rxc7 31. Bxc7 {A bishop endgame occured} Bc2 {
Black threatens to win material: Bc2xb3} 32. Bxa5 Bxb3 1/2-1/2
I haven’t been following the Chess world that closely recently but I have to congratulate Viswanathan Anand on retaining his title:
| World Chess Championship Bonn (GER), 14 x - 2xi 2008 | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Ti | NAT | Rtng | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Total | Perf |
| Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2783 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | . | 6½ | 2837 |
| Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2772 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | . | 4½ | 2718 |
The complete pgn files of the 2008 World Chess Championship can be downloaded from this site using the link here.
No, I am not talking about the domain name for this blog for a change.
Our family is now in our new house. I mentioned the move a few posts ago and we made it in one piece.
I have actually been in the house since Tuesday and my step children came up on the Friday night. The removals arrived early Saturday afternoon and I spent the afternoon and evening unloading the van with the removals men, putting up furniture and beds and unpacking.
I am tired, covered in bruises and sore.
But we are in our new house and it’s amazing.
Good question.
Well, I recently saw the Jazz.me domain name sell for 5k and deceided that 5k+ is worth more to me than a catchy domain name.
So Munch.Me is now up for sale as you can see if you visit the page.
Money is money 
I had a long conversation with someone who I had’t talked to for a long while, probably at least six months. It was like, well I don’t know how I can describe it, except to say it was fun.
As for Java? Well I haven’t done much pure, in a loose sense, Java programming after exploring the Android and Apple SDK’s. It may be time to pick up on a couple of projects I left off of a while ago.
I also have some web developement projects that I invested some time into a few weeks ago that need reviewing.
Oh, and we still aren’t completely packed.