Sean Middleditch

Work has been murder. Not even because there’s so much of it, but just the particular projects and the jumping around it entails. I’m very much a 90/10 sort of guy when it comes to projects. (I love the first 90% of the project, and despise the last 10% of polishing and tweaking.)

SCA practice has been going well. Finally bought a piece of armor (a gorget). Still need all the other bits. Every time I can find a good deal, I either am just too late or piece doesn’t fit me or the time period I’m aiming for. Being 6′3″, 240lbs., and picky is a real problem with armor, it seems.

Quit Kanar last weekend. Showed up to hand off my character’s responsibilities so somebody else could run the guard. Hopefully it works out for everyone. I even banned myself from the Kanar boards (yay DNS tricks) so I wouldn’t keep wasting hours every day posting there. Why bother if I don’t play anymore? I don’t want to be like most the BOCs who spend a grotesque amount of their life posting on the boards for a game they won’t play.

Japan trip is still in the air. Planning on going at the end of April still, but haven’t gotten my passport back yet. Will be cutting it close. Don’t want to buy tickets until I’m sure I’ll actually be able to go.

Ashes of Eradur (K3) is coming along. Lots of people have been working on rules stuff, which is nice. I haven’t had much time for it, unfortunately. We’re having a setting discussion on Saturday, so that will be good.

Also trying to get a couple other projects started for Ogre Lord. Want to get a “old fashioned” type card deck out their for LARPers and maybe SCA players. People like to play modern card games in those settings, and it’s a lot nicer to have a “fitting” deck than a regular Aviator deck or whatever. I’m sure some people will bitch that the entire project is misguided since modern cards didn’t exist in old times, but I’ll get over it.

Why the hell doesn’t JavaScript have a standard function for escaping HTML?

Seriously. Retarded.

Anyone have any recommendations for a fast, stand-alone routine for doing this? Prototype has one bundled in with it, but the client I’m working for uses JQuery instead, and I don’t feel like having two frameworks in the site. The few examples I found online uses some rather ugly-looking substring repalcement loops. A Perl regex could solve this easily, but I don’t think the ECMA regex engine can do what I need.