http://confluence.za.net/blog Powered by space monkeys! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:26:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So the M&G did an article on ICON, the recent gaming convention up in Jo'burg. It's about as awful as you would expect, only worse. It makes it sound as if all the women were walking around in revealing outfits with their tits falling out, and that the ... http://confluence.za.net/blog/?p=204 Finished all the levels in the default Frozen Bubble levelset? Run out of custom levels from the interwebs? Random levels too boring? Making levels too hard? Sounds like you need Forever Bubble -- what I made on Tuesday night instead of working. Randomly generate pretty levels -- ... http://confluence.za.net/blog/?p=200 There's too much Serious Business on my front page! Something must be done. You should buy Machinarium; it is an awesome indie point-and-click adventure game about robots. It has really pretty art, and versions for Windows, Mac and Linux. (It's written in flash, and the standalone flash player ... http://confluence.za.net/blog/?p=198 Suppose that you host a party at which you serve soup. The soup consists almost entirely of vegetables, but you add a small amount of chicken stock. During the party, a few of your guests complain that they are vegetarians, and thus find your soup unpalatable. Assuming that you ... http://confluence.za.net/blog/?p=196 After a lot of compiling, digikam is working again. Here are the photos from Conclave at Charybdis. And here are some Egyptian geese, if you like that sort of thing. http://confluence.za.net/blog/?p=193 I'm about to upload my photos of our Dragonfire LARP, which happened only two months ago. This is still less laggy than Hodgestar's birthday party. In order to upload the photos I am upgrading digikam, so that I can use a non-faily flickr upload plugin. In order ... http://confluence.za.net/blog/?p=185 I am not offended by jokes about sex. I make them all the time. I can think of many women who I'm pretty sure would say the same. There is a long-running debate about sexism within the FOSS community and the IT field in general (the most recent notable ... http://confluence.za.net/blog/?p=177 I have put up selected photos from my road trip to Grahamstown and ICON with Hodgestar and drnlm. Also, the LARP which I'm supposed to be writing right now has a playtest on Sat 1st and will run at Dragonfire on Sat 8th. It's a science fiction LARP set in the same ... http://confluence.za.net/blog/?p=173 I knew her for more than a decade -- Hodgestar got her a year before we met. She was a beautiful, clever and graceful cat, and we will both miss her. http://confluence.za.net/blog/?p=168 When I first heard about the new Star Trek movie, I was highly sceptical. I was concerned that after the lack of enthusiasm over Voyager and the horrible failure of Enterprise (itself a reboot attempt) most of the original franchise would be considered an unprofitable dead end. I ... http://confluence.za.net/blog/?p=166