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Project Management for One

Read an interesting post by igor_nav the other day, describing his newly-devised methodlogy for tackling one-person development projects — specifically, dealing with the problem of not being able to finish things, by breaking down the tasks remaining. Take a look at his explanation! The problem he describes doesn’t really apply to me, because I have […]

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Funny Farm

A thousand curses be on the name of thecesspit, who pointed me at this word-association puzzle thingy. As he so wisely said (and I so foolishly ignored), don’t click if you have things to do today.

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El Complo

The title means I think The Conspiracy, and no doubt it contains all sorts of biting satire on the Mexican political system, but for our purposes it’s a nice little Flash game of the “make the little man do X” variety. Well, it wasted me some time. Edit: forgot to say, thanks karohemd for pointing […]

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Hapland 2

Given the amount of time wasted on Hapland in my previous post, I thought it’s about time to start a new post for Hapland 2 — basically the same sort of thing, but more complicated! Be warned, it took me about twice as long to do as the first one. But there are lots of […]

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Hapland, or; How To Waste Half an Hour

Hapland is an excellent little Flash puzzle-game I’ve just found, although it must have been around for a while as there’s now a Hapland 2. It took me quite a while to solve it, but as I’m normally incredibly prone to giving up in disgust at tough puzzles, it’s a tribute to its fun-ness that […]

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River puzzle

Stumbled across this fiendish puzzle — I don’t have the patience to work it out, anyone else do better than that? (Without writing a program to solve it, wimble… oh OK then, you can if you like…)

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A puzzle

A mathematical (sort of) puzzle to help you while away your lunchbreak. I haven’t worked out the answer yet myself, so if you beat me to it, you can have at least one kudo, maybe more.