Gomiworld

On September 24th (21th in North America) of this year something horrible happened, Firaxis released Civilization V. You are probably wondering why this is so bad. Well, if you are a recovering civilization addict like myself, a new Civ game can be devastating to your productivity and social life. Unfortunately for me the new game did have exactly that effect, something my girl friend would confirm if you asked her (sorry babe ;)).

Because of the game that we will no longer mention by name, a month has passed since my last post. While this is not uncommon it's not a good thing and I'd like to change that trend.

A while back we decided to use GitHub for the open source code that we produce at Flattr and as a result of that I had to create a GitHub account. Most of the code that we produce at Flattr is not, for obvious security reasons, open sourced. Which is also quite evident if you look at my GitHub profile.

Yesterday I decided that I'd upload something so that my profile page wouldn't be quite so desolate. I also wanted to update this blog somehow and thought I'd kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. This desire, coupled with my before mentioned addiction to Civilization V <argh! I said it>, lead to what I like to call the 'Civ5 Addictionometer' or Civ5 Habari plugin if you like to get technical.

The Civ5 Addictionometer is a plugin for the Habari blog system (tested on 0.6.4) that when added to your blog will say just how much time you've wasted spent playing Civilization 5. While this might seem utterly pointless to some, to me it's genius. Now when people are wondering why they haven't heard from me in a few days they can instantly see (by visiting my blog of course) that the reason for this is that I've been busy ruling the world (on Civilization 5). Now one could argue that it would be better if I stopped playing the game but that would just be nonsense. Nonsense I tell you!

If you, like me, suffer from Civ addiction and happen to run a Habari blog you can get the plugin from GitHub.