I’ve been exceptionally busy with work, and only had the energy left to play Global Agenda on an evening – I’ve not made any progress with Archaos since the last update but once I’ve gotten this swathe of hard labour out of the way, I’ll be finishing the server, building a basic client and inviting [...]

The Archaos server now validates, processes and outputs a full turn of human interactions. This is a pretty major milestone in the development process, and I’m very happy with the results so far:
{
“turn” : 1,
“phase” : “move”,
“interaction” : “sequence”,
“finished” : true,
“actions” : [
[...]

It’s been a very busy year for me, mainly due to my commitments at work (let me assure you this won’t be a long winded entry which eventually leads to ’so thanks for your support but I quit’!) and as such the big project that I’m sure 99% of visitors to this site are waiting [...]

Well, a tumultuous relationship with Yahoo Pipes has ended after a long struggle with various bugs, inefficiencies, annoyances and finally service refusal. There’s no doubt Pipes is a very useful and clever system, but it has some very serious downsides:

Caching – every pipe is rigorously cached, and updates are so infrequent as to allow bugs [...]