I was looking for something else [online copies of
my resume, to withdraw them, since I'm now employed,
but still getting frequent recruiter contacts], and
came across this site, for "programs you should
never be without".

Someone there:

http://forums.spacebattles.com/archive/index.php/t-85266.html

recommended my very own toy, Traveller, in an entry
titled and date-time stamped:

Raghar
Sep 28th 2005, 4:43pm

most of the way toward the bottom, saying:

"Traveller (When you don't know what to do with your
CPU time.)
http://www.well.com/~xanthian/java/TravellerDoc.html"

This just naturally leaves me with a warm fuzzy
feeling, though the SETI <at> Home folks might be a
bit miffed to lose all that processing resource.

xanthian.

Since a recent exchange in comp.ai.java.advocacy has
given me a clue why my newer edition of Traveller is
misbehaving way down in Sun's asynchronous graphics
lazy update re-painting code [I'm doing graphics
drawing updates in my own thread, wnen I should be
doing them in the event loop, so I don't pull the
rug out from under the asynchronous repaints;
oops! {insert sound clip of Fibber McGee opening his
closet, here}], my newer, five times larger edition
of Traveller will be coming out as time allows me to
make the massive rewrites needed to push all
graphics updates in 177,398 lines of GUI-crazy code
(a maximum of 106 windows can be open in Traveller
at the same time in the new edition) into the event
loop where they will run synchronously with the
repainting stuff, and presumably stop throwing
exceptions and painting pied windows (which, mostly,
Traveller survives anyway, but sometimes not).

This is good news because the new edition caters for
many, many more stylized city layouts, making for
nicer curves to use, as seen here, for "Traveller
Art"

http://www.anycities.com/user/xanthian/TravellerArt/TravellerArt.html

than the existing freeware edition provides. I've
been hyper-reluctant to release it in crashy form,
but now it may be possible to do a clean release.

Someday.