Behold the interweb home of Mischa Poslawsky aka Shiar. It contains information on my (software) projects such as Wormy, a section about TI-8x calculators including over 200 game reviews, and pages on anything else that might interest me.
Life is a hard teacher because it gives the test first, and the lesson afterwards
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- Anniversary 6.March.2009
- To celebrate Wormy's release exactly 7 years ago (as well as my own 26 years ago) I've relicensed it under the GPL, and gathered its development history into a public Git repository. This contains every version from Peaworm 0.9 from 1998, to Wonderworm, to Worm starting 1999, upto the final Wormy in 2002. Also introduces a new level parser written in Perl, to convert all data into readable text.
- Squarely Dutch 3.February.2009
In an effort to unify my various tlds, the primary location of this site will henceforth be at shiar.nl. Seems like a decent choice, as I'm sufficiently proud to be from the Netherlands. The other options are either debatable (.net: does hosting multiple sites make me a network provider?), misleading (.com to denote internationality?), or a complete stretch (.org for non-profit, but without the organization?).
To celebrate, I've redesigned my logo. While it's certainly much less shiny and 3-D, I think it's more suitable for me to have something written (custom SVG) than drawn (using some third-party font no less). And no, the resemblance to my written signature is not accidental (just unfortunate my nick requires a diagonal line :/).
- Revivification 11.November.2008
After about six years of inactivity, I finally resurrected my site. As pages became more and more outdated, the work required to update everything to a semi-relevant state grew to the point where it's easier to just leave it clearly deprecated.
But at last I managed to bring it back to a presentable state. The styling and HTML have been updated, and all code rewritten (which besides being maintainable and PHP-less, now features translations and clean urls). Most obsolete contents have been removed or revised (useful information should still be there though). While I'm not planning on posting as frequently as I used to, I do hope to keep it somewhat current.
- Happy new Year 6.March.2003
You wouldn't believe it if you weren't reading this, but I'm actually updating my page! :) Not that I've got anything noteworthy to say (oh, just that my site got over 100,000 visitors, w00t), but a lot of people were wondering where I went. Well, mostly I'm just preoccupied with my job at the moment. The only update is that I just made my guestbook a little more spam-resistant (recently it's being flooded by spam, bleurgh).
But soon I think I may have some calculator-related updates for you as well (even though I officially retired). Check back soon ;)- Update™ 12.October.2002
Finally got a computer-related job :). At Media Design, where I'm currently working on Cu2, a site which most dutch people may have heard of ^_^. Anyways, since I'm now working on websites fulltime, the fun of updating my own site is mostly gone. I'll try though: Little update to the about me page, and I believe I never mentioned my StarCraft page before, which contains some useful info about the game.
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