2004-03-20 23:45
by Vasil KolevI finally finished reading “American Gods”, a great book… If I was still drinking, after this I whould’ve taken a random bottle and would just drink for some time :) Really deserves reading, and to be fair, after what I’ve read by Neil Gaiman (one book with Terry Pratchett, “Good Omens”, and another one which title I can’t remember, but wasn’t really good), I didn’t expect something so good and with such influence. May be some bookreader that’s more obsessed than me can find some banal elements, but in my opinion it’s just great. I recommend it to everyone that likes fantasy and Steven King, to me it looks like a very interesting combination between them.
I got some time after the book, and I had some time to expand https://vasil.ludost.net/pisaniq/sn_wot/sn_wot.txt , which is starting to get into shape, just a little more, and I’ll be able to start designing the data format (I still have some unidentified things, like how exactly I’ll make the signatures, so there won’t be a compatibility problem between different architectures), and to start testing how slow exactly are the asymmetric cryptography algorithms. According to chervarium, the idea to sing and encrypt with these is pretty bad, just because it will be damn slow, but I don’t trust something like this until I test it… In the end, there is the Moore’s law, there are fast enough processors…
(short clarification, at https://vasil.ludost.net/pisaniq/sn_wot/ can be seen all the versions until now, with diffs between them, for move convenient tracking. I’m thinking about putting a version in the beginning of the document, but I’ll wait for that…)
It’s important to note, that the discussions in orkut are helping the development, it’s interesting to see everything from someone else’s point of view, and to hear others’ ideas… Also, the people who don’t understand some idea, are helping me to clarify it :)
And, of course, I just can’t just not mention Bine, which inspired me to do this :)