Monday, November 28, 2005

Scott Adams' blog

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/

Sunday, November 06, 2005

KGS Plus lecture for 5/11/05

Guo Juan on the variations after W star point, B K's approach, W one-point pincer

First she examines a trick attachment and cross-cut. Must try that sometime.

Option 1.
B goes into 3-3 point,
** W blocks on the open side if he has a stone already, B makes 2 along, 2 down.
W's hane inwards is not strictly sente as B can extend from stone on second line.
B's hane outwards is very sente as W must defend, else B clamps and starts to threaten W's wall of 3.
** W blocks between, B makes the 3 and 1. Guo examines the variations of playing one point away from the 1 on the third line, and then B walking out. Both quiet nobi or interesting cut are possible.
24 minutes.

Monday, October 31, 2005

KGS Plus lecture for 30/10/05

Yilun Yang
Framework-oriented Chinese opening for B at the top, territory for W at the bottom.

* Stressed usefulness of 5pt extension - showed a comfortable invasion into a 6pt extension.
* See effects of white approach - 3rd line stone at top is territorial - developing a wall facing is inconsistent
* help the weaker stone; help the inside stone get out; OK to touch the weaker stone if it gets HEAVIER
* avalanche leading to two outcomes which work well or badly with two stones already played.
light - sabaki escape
* W reducing stone can't settle immediately - needs a handful of forcing moves - need to touch things - choose to touch strong things
* three touches then a fast jump - also examined the effect of B's cut
* when still not settled, a crosscut and sacrifice to get even more forcing moves.
* Pushing battle where consideration is who needs libetrties mopre to decide extend or hane.
* Long liberty battle at the bottom - always looking for ways to get more liberties

Saturday, October 08, 2005

KGS plus lecture for 1/10/05

Listened to the Mingjiu Jiang lecture from Saturday last 1st October. Studied the close-in pincer to the approach to 4-4 - which direction to block and when it is OK to tenuki. I saw the wall-of-3 and two-knights moves pattern come up several times, also at the top when he used a knight's move approach to a 3-10 stone - much better than going on top when you don't want the opponent to walk through your moyo. Also looked at two knight's move approaches to the 4-4, when it is OK to go in to the 3-3 if you have outlying stones in both directions, and which direction to then cut - towards the one further out.

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Sheet Music Plus - Julio S. Sagreras: Guitar Lessons (Books 1-3)

Sheet Music Plus - Julio S. Sagreras: Guitar Lessons (Books 1-3)
This page from book 3 of Sagreras's Studies happens to be the exact piece I am practicing at the moment.

Friday, September 30, 2005

My wife and daughter are being rude about my blog. They think it's all a bit self-absorbed. I say let them get their own.

My daughter - id say if i was to get my own, it wouldnt be so boring, talking about your go rating, i mean noone actually knows what go is. Im afraid to say that i unfortuantely do, after being bullied and beaten into learning all about it, however i dont say this to my friends lest i get rejected.

Silly Little Country

Silly Little Country
I read Alan's blog.

Winchester Film Society

Winchester Film Society, world cinema, independent films, Winchester, Hampshire, arts, arthouse films, independent movies, arthouse movies
Gillian and I are members of the Winchester Film Society - a foreign film every two weeks. First one next week is Cercle Rouge. I suppose it's French...

Dragon Go Server - Status

Dragon Go Server - Status
Getting carried away with the "Blog this" button on my Google toolbar. I like playing Go on Dragon. I am 10k but one day look forward to seeing 9k on the screen.

Hinton Ampner on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Hinton Ampner on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
For no purpose whatsoever, let's blog a pic.

SDO, a first look - Pixelated Dreams

SDO, a first look - Pixelated Dreams
Davey Shafik took a look at SDO and although he was not impressed, the discussion that followed was interesting. I talked a bit about what I had tried to do and not do with the Relational DAS.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

more mundane posting

Just to put down on record that I work on the SDO for PHP project
http://www.pecl.php.net/package/sdo

Friday, March 04, 2005

Zend Support - FAQ

Zend Support - FAQ: "pserver"


You need something like this as the CVS Root value...
:pserver:@:/home/cvs/lamp
Note how you need an initial colon, unlike eclipse.

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

spiderman


spiderman
Originally uploaded by matfpeters.
Jessica goes live all over the world

Got to start somewhere

Title says it all. First blog. Want to have something to work with Flickr.

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Age 52, work for IBM