Inside GMT Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsShared files: SAGA FAIL Sharing a file is supposed to let several people open, work on, and update/save a file at the same time. A tall order, but somehow it’s always worked in Excel 2003. However, 2007 just breaks. Claims[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I typically don’t talk about work, here or elsewhere. One, it just isn’t a big part of my mental space, and two, it’s a very good way to stay out of trouble. However, this needs pointing up: http://www.notebookshopper.com/ (And click[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This last weekend was Further Confusion 2008. This is usually a good con for us and for the business, and this year was no exception. Money: Our dealer’s table did very well Friday and Sunday, and was soft Saturday (opposite[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a fairly odd last month for me. I could not convince myself that it was Christmastime at all. To just about everyone: sorry for a lack of presents. I could have afforded something, but just couldn’t make myself[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Got back from my annual vacation with my parents yesterday. The trip down went well, main problem was getting started a bit late. The chaos of the potential schedule changing on a day-by-day basis meant that I never really worked[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have been getting into the habit lately of visiting my parents every year for a week or so at Thanksgiving. My parents currently live in a mobile home. It’s an aging place, with it’s own share of problems. So,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Having lived in southern California for much of my life, I’m used to the ground not always entirely being steady under my feet. After moving to the Bay Area, not so much. The steady stream of small single-jolt earthquakes I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a busy weekend. There’s still things that need doing that didn’t get done. Saturday was gaming. The usual crowd, Patch and Mark, showed up for SFB, and Paul showed up to watch after expressing interest in playing. We[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It all started with Adobe Premier. It has a nasty habit of slowly developing problems over time, and a week ago it got to the point where Smudge couldn’t do anything with it. So this last weekend we wiped the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yanked from Fanthropology: Analytics performed upon Star Trek episodes confirm that the red-shirts die much more often than anybody else. However, if Captain Kirk “makes contact” with an alien woman, the red shirts are much more likely to survive. Full[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…