I was cleaning the microwave a moment ago, and Tortfeasor (the cat) walked by, his tail moving to close the microwave door on my hand. I suddenly and briefly felt very threatened, angry, and .. well, outside my normal self. For a second afterwards, I felt angry at the little guy, like I wanted to hurt him.. and then I felt normal again (and confused at why I felt what I did). I wonder if this is at all like what people describe as primal feelings, or perhaps a very tiny taste of the oddness that some war vets get when things remind them of the dark part of their lives. I wish I could analyze it further, but the impression and feeling is fleeting -- already past.

I recently have also been getting some odd spam -- some random bit of philosophy with links to some spamharvesting site. I guess, when it comes to spam, it's not as bad (for me) as completely boring spam..

I installed MediaWiki on my laptop, and moved all the UseModWiki stuff over. While doing so, I came across 2 observations.. firstly, it's convenient that the markup in UseMod and MediaWiki are the same -- I was able to just cut and paste each edit view over. Secondly, the actual process of duplicating the deep, non-tree graph-equivalent structure is quite fascinating to me. In the case of my documentation for the Mustard World, it's possible to impose a tree onto the graph by noting that each node really is primarily part of a hierarchy, with its parent being quite apparent from its title, and the other links to it being less meaningful. I suppose Wikis really are a good example of the algorithmic issues involved in efficiently copying arbitrary graph structures -- my domain knowledge had me just traverse the tree, ignoring links to nodes that arn't primary links. For general-purpose Wiki copying, that's na klar not good enough. Perhaps instead each node could use frequency backlink analysis to determine which parent linker is *the* parent linker? No, that really doesn't work. Hmm.