Mark's Blog

I finally finished Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (warning, Flash) today, achieving 100% completion. If you can stomach the hideous color scheme, you can view my stats, which I saved to a file. I wish more games would let you easily print out your stats like this so you could compare them with other people and see how you're doing. It would also be nice to be able to see your progression in a game visually. The last mission, which took me way too many tries to finish, was the "RC Baron" mission, which involves flying a particularly twitchy remote control biplane through 28 checkpoints. My time was 3 minutes exactly, which is not great, but it was good enough to finish the race in first place. (Update 2003/07/31: if you're having difficulty with the RC Baron mission, try my Mini-Guide for some hints.)

I watched Office Space tonight, which I found to be completely hilarious. If you work in a cubicle and haven't seen this yet, There were just too many funny quotes to even list.

I've been using a new open-source spam filter, which has a toolbar plugin for Microsoft Outlook, called SpamBayes. It seems to accurately sort about 98% of my email, which is pretty impressive. I wish there were a few more stats about how successful the classification has been and the distribution of email received, but it's a great piece of software nonetheless.