My old Dell, my website, and my attention all collapsed late 2022, when I was putting together the spreadsheet you see here of construction costs. Starting here may be a good way to clear the blog cobwebs out.

The numbers in the table are from receipts and my best recollection, and the conversion rate Nicaraguan córdobas to US dollars more or less accurate at the time of purchase.

Notice the 4 highlighted items to achieve freedom from utility bills. Over U$1000 in initial costs, but have already saved nearly U$500, and, more importantly, have saved myself the frustration of Disnorte's thievery, arrogance, and horrible mismanagement.

You can view 2022 construction progress in the 'Casita' photo page.

Well, not really a new site. Better to say a newly resurrected CyberJerry, crippled and untended for over 2 years. The new domain name signifies a fresh start, sort of.

Unfortunately, this transition has brought to light a number of new or already existing bugs in various pages. Most notably in the Sudoku Analyzer, you may now notice that a new puzzle will sometimes not load, and that some very complex hints may be truncated.

You may hope for bug fixes, coming probably quite slowly. Meanwhile, your patience and feedback are appreciated.

Sudoku is easy to understand: a 9x9 grid, 81 cells, in which every row, column, and 3x3 box must contain digits 1 through 9. Simple enough, but with enormous possibilities. If one were to write a little program to generate all possible 9x9 grids with all possible combinations of 9 digits in each of the 81 cells, it would have to generate 9^81 (9 to the 81st power) grids (that's a number with 78 digits). I did in fact write such a simple program over 15 years ago. But to complete the task within my lifetime, even on a powerful 5 gHz machine generating, (read article)

When you press the buttons 'Analyze', 'Hint', 'Peek', or 'Solve', the Sudoku Analyzer sends a small Ajax packet to the server. The 'X' in A.J.A.X. in this case stands for 'executable', a program that runs on the hosting server at cyberjerry.info as a native BSD excutable or binary. The binary performs the requested task and sends another small packet back to your computer to complete the Ajax transaction. This program is written in C and assembly, compiled on the server using gcc, for maximum execution speed. (Sudoku analysis would run way too slowly in a scripting language.) The original and core part of the program, written in assembly, solves the Sudoku by means of simple and fast (read article)

A few days ago, an astute visitor* to the CyberJerry Sudoku page successfully responded to the Sudoku Challenge, the first CyberJerry visitor to do so. He found the Sudoku grid pictured which the Analyzer couldn't solve, and told me (in Spanish) how to solve it:

este sudoku lo saque de la pagina https://www.sudoku-online.org de categoria sudoku extremo #717, y su analizar dice que no tiene una solución, sin embargo por metodo analitico encuentro que F6 = 4 debido al 4 de E3 y el 4 de G5, tambien encuentro que I9 = 5 debido al 5 de D8 y al 5 de H4, al colocar estos dos números, ahora si dice que tiene solución única lo anterior esta pasando

(read article)

It would be unreasonable and unjust to expect priests and bishops in 2020 to forsake their lifestyle and social status and become poor homeless pilgrims. Likewise, the vast majority of Catholic homes of today are incapable of becoming true domestic churches, with the husband assuming the role of pastor and priest. This will take time, probably several generations. But there are a few who could begin, and here's one way it could possibly play out:

A single bishop somewhere might request permission to form an ordinariate (see box). Or a priest could request to do so, and then request ordination as bishop, so as to be able to ordain men to the priesthood. The by-laws of this ordinariate (read article)

There are Christian communities that have no denominational name, no church buildings, none of the usual ecclesial trappings. Their weekly home meetings are punctuated at intervals by pastoral visits from an elder or 'bishop'. The elder has a clearly defined territory within which he moves in circuit-rider fashion, preaching, teaching, counseling, and accepting such food and lodging as are offered him. He has no home of his own, and so is unmarried. He is allowed to own only what clothes, books and personal items he can carry in a single large suitcase.

Why shouldn't the Catholic norm be similar? The local group is the family; the husband and father being also an ordained Catholic (read article)