Read "The Goblin Emperor" today, interesting book. It's your basic "power thrust onto them" story, with (I think?) white/black race issues in the background, and a fairly simpathetic treatment of the lead (who does actually have feelings of "actually, autocratic power is kind of neat" sometimes).

I found it hard to keep tabs of the various people, the naming scheme is complex and context dependent. Although it's a third person book, the names used in the text change depending on (amoung other things) the feelings of the lead towards the individual being named.

But yeah, interesting.

Otherwise, not a lot going on. I'm navigating twisty shallows with browser, trying to get a framework for HTML parsing up and running, and I'm starting to think that, given how crazy detailed the HTML spec is anyway, it might just be worth writing the parser in C.

I'm just feeling lost at the moment. I don't know what to do, so I stay on autopilot, going to work in the morning, watching TV/reading/programming in the evening, waiting for something to happen.