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Difficulty: Easy Tuesday, March 27, 2007

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CHAT LOG for Tuesday, March 27, 2007

12:05 am
h

go
12:12 am
raggedyandy3478

done
12:16 am
pthomp

go
12:21 am
moedog

hi, all
12:21 am
skizzybiz

evening
12:29 am
moedog

a little harder than the typical "easy" - had to restart once
12:31 am
h

done. no restarts, no greens, but slow plodding it seemed
12:32 am
WHB

Done
2:10 am
Amiku

hey guys
2:52 am
sprite

hey Amiku
3:18 am
peternl

hi all
4:26 am
peternl

hmm, made that seem harder than it was - I'll blame the distractions...
6:44 am
eyeman

tough easy!
6:55 am
smooth_pappa

go!
7:03 am
Dazza

hey that was a bit unfair, a tough little easy, so early in the week.
7:05 am
smooth_pappa

done no greens
8:20 am
UnikeTheHunter

Go.
8:42 am
OrangeSlice

Two unique rectangles today.
8:48 am
UnikeTheHunter

Done. A cute one.
8:57 am
arleneehm

not easy for me... though I suppose doing one while killing a migraine is not a good idea.
9:03 am
drwho

Difficulty score 28. You really earn your 1 point today.
9:27 am
Krys10

crosshatching certainly doesn't help much today
9:32 am
Minski

Done! Simple but not too easy (if you know what I mean).
9:32 am
Krys10

i'm going to have to come back to this - chemistry class awaits
9:45 am
franebrown

not easy. hard! needed many greens..but done!
10:54 am
janiceb75

ok, this is giving me more of a headache than the expert ones do. lol
11:11 am
spellacked

It's do-able without greens, but took depeer searching than usual.
11:19 am
brianarn

Well, I cracked - I'm now paid. It'll be a good thing and all. just, yeah. :D
11:51 am
brianarn

Using lots of greens, not too bad to do. I guess I kind of apply the unique rectangle without thinking, or maybe it's not necessary for today's and I just see it anyways? I dunno. :D
12:58 pm
Moozey

this doesn't seem so easy...how funny normally we have experts/hards that are easy but never the other way round!
1:03 pm
Moozey

hmmm not so easy but done...have a good day all
1:09 pm
drwho

Most of you won't believe this, but the computer only used cross-hatching.
1:11 pm
drwho

To brianarn, I am learning web design, Javascript, php etc. So, the program that I wrote to solve and rate these puzzles will be online eventually.
1:12 pm
brianarn

I pretty much only used crosshatching, just, a lot of it. :D
1:13 pm
brianarn

drwho: PHP is fun, but after having learned them, I recommend a peek at Ruby. It's what drives this site and the whole Ruby on Rails thing is super nifty. :D
1:13 pm
brianarn

Also, Krys10 has some code in her profile that's javascript code that'll autofill greens on the page, which can be saved in a bookmarklet. It's kind of amusing how much work that saves.
1:14 pm
drwho

Ok, I have had that recommendation before. Also AJAX.
1:14 pm
drwho

Checkout brittlefish.com for some autofill scripts too.
1:14 pm
brianarn

Ajax is really nifty, but it's not specifically a language, so much as leveraging JavaScript on the client side with the language of your choice on the server side to do shiny stuff like this chatbox here. :)
1:16 pm
drwho

I will probably also learn about cgi. I think it might be possible to put a cgi interface on my current solver program to get it online.
1:17 pm
brianarn

I've heard of people doing that, so that'd be one approach which would save a lot of code translating, which isn't so fun. :D
1:21 pm
brianarn

I have to say, I'm really glad i signed up for pro. While checkpoints don't work quite like I expected (I originally signed up for the site and then kinda forgot and went away, missing my trial of them), it's nice to have, plus being able to do more puzzles is nice. :)
1:30 pm
drwho

Now the big question is how long will it take you to join the ranks of the elite?
1:33 pm
orsetta87

hi all
1:33 pm
orsetta87

come to visit my msn space
1:34 pm
orsetta87

http://orsetta87na.spaces.live.com/
1:34 pm
orsetta87

I'm waiting for all you
1:34 pm
orsetta87

If you want you can write me a comment if you like it
2:09 pm
kittybat

Ugh! Definitely not an easy to me...
2:16 pm
Twin C

SWEET!
2:16 pm
Twin C

brittlefish.com came up with an autofill
2:16 pm
Twin C

for IE6
2:23 pm
brianarn

I suspect it will take quite awhile to join the elite :D
2:32 pm
EndlessD

whoo
2:54 pm
Krys10

there's an autofill in my profile
2:54 pm
Krys10

javascript
2:54 pm
Krys10

i didn't write it
2:55 pm
brianarn

It looks like the brittlefish.com one :) pretty handy stuff.
2:56 pm
Krys10

maybe that's where it came from - lots of people were posting it in the chat log when it was first written
3:41 pm
helenkeller

go
3:56 pm
helenkeller

DONE
3:57 pm
helenkeller

either not easy 'easy' or i confused myself
3:57 pm
brianarn

I found it was easy to overanalyze it a bit.
3:57 pm
helenkeller

lol
4:58 pm
Zugzug7

go
5:25 pm
ypsigirl

tricky.... done!
5:58 pm
himuran

done
6:32 pm
chebuctonian

hi all :)
6:37 pm
kittybat

hi chebuctonian
7:11 pm
brittlefish.com

go
7:14 pm
brittlefish.com

tricky tricky
7:27 pm
brittlefish.com

done
7:55 pm
Andy

OK... end of a long day, not quite time for dancing with the stars... time to solve an easy :)
8:19 pm
plurple

why does anyone watch dancing with the stars? eck
8:21 pm
Andy

Maybe because there's still some variety in the world and other people like different things than you do. Would you like to name some things you like so I can disparage them in return?
8:29 pm
spreadeagle

Hi everybody, I've been gone for 6 days. Have I missed anything exciting?
8:29 pm
Andy

2 experts in a row over the weekend :)
8:29 pm
Andy

Yay! Found my first unique rectangle without greens
8:29 pm
spreadeagle

Cool!!
10:11 pm
brittlefish.com

yikes. didn't see the comments below me. FWIW, i didn't write the original autofill script. i just did the G+r autofill variant, and solved the IE6 problem. IE6 + FF script is at brfsh.com/2007/03/14/ironsudoku-ie6-autofill-
solved
10:48 pm
whitewitch1111

Can somebody help me please? Where is 3 supposed to be in the last row from left to right?
10:55 pm
brittlefish.com

you mean row 9?
10:57 pm
whitewitch1111

yes row 9
10:59 pm
brittlefish.com

try col 6
11:00 pm
whitewitch1111

thanks a lot
11:16 pm
whitewitch1111

DONE!!! Thanks to your help brittlefish. For some reasons I was really stuck before you helped me out.