Ooooh!

I've wondered for ages why no-one's adapted Christopher Priest's magnificent 1995 novel The Prestige for the screen.

And now someone - Christopher Nolan! - is filming it...

More at the link.

River Crossing (and crossing and crossing and...)

One of the things I did in Prague - more info shortly, promise - was buy a really cheap copy of River Crossing (called 'Crocodile [something]' there).

And being the sort of person whose response to Sudoku was to write a program to solve the puzzles (starting with one that would do 16x16 ones as well as 9x9) I've written a program to find solutions to this too.

(Ok, one incentive was being a bit stuck on puzzle 38 of the 40 in the box. The solutions are included, but that feels like cheating in a way that writing the solving program doesn't.)

It works :) but several things have surprised me... ( Read more... )