Delays, delays …

I apologize for the lack of updates lately: the queue of things to get up is growing disgusting.

Just to give you and idea what is coming:

• Review of C&E’s Fengshen Bang game for the Famicom, complete with a personally tagged NSFE set.
• Several packages of PCF fonts for Linux, each including BDF descriptors. Includes over 100 fonts from DOS font TSR programs, video games and BIOS rips of old PC hardware. Perfect for an xterm font on an EeePC.
• A couple short stories not at all based on real life events … One is written and needs editing, the other is in my head and needs writing.
• A Python version of WineLocale with a better GUI. The package builder is already confirmed as working and will add all fonts and locales needed to your machine straight from apt — meaning no more dependency on Vera Sans YuanTi!
• An updated version of DerEditor with all the latest data ElSallia.com user Markliujy kindly helped track down. This includes class changes and class graphics, spell stats, terrain bonuses and penalties for each class and the ability to edit item prices. Also a new wide GUI layout to make sure the bottom is not cut off in low resolutions.

And I would love to do all these today, but I am extremely tired. I just went to the incredible tea market in the east part of the city and shot the shit with a couple very knowledgeable salespeople from Fujian. The spoils of the day were a half-pound of very, very decent Zhengshan Xiaozhong black tea — Lapsang Souchong in … some very strange Romanization system — and a half-pound of Cinnamon black tea from Dahongpao.

Let’s not discuss the price.

Tomorrow’s mission, should it not rain, is attempting to see which of the nine old Daoist temples on my list of “Daoist Temples in Beijing that are not White Cloud Temple” are still standing, and hopefully come back with photos.