I just learned that a table opened at Penguicon for running a game.

It's been 20 years since I ran at a con (AFF c. 1989). It was a rocky game of Shadowrun 1st ed. I think I had 20 minutes to prep.

Here's my primer:

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, 2d edition

WFRP is Games Workshop's groundbreaking RPG set in the epic, grim and perilous world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. WFRP 2d Edition expands and builds on the 20 year old system that won accolades in 1986.

Poisoned Borders, an ongoing personal campaign, is spun off in this  one-shot as local heroes bravely pickup where transient heroes left  off...

"Three days ago, an elf, a dwarf and a priest of Sigmar returned with  two men-at-arms and the dwarf high priestess of Valaya. Without as much as a word, they left Helmgart for Bretonnia in the west. In their  wake: joy and mystery. The priestess, regaled as a hero for returning with a lost tome of healing that promised a cure to the racking cough plaguing townfolk and garrison, decended into madness. Her ever public rantings foretell  greater dangers lurking in the steep mountains above Helmgart."

The party of 4-6 players are locals of Helmgart. Mostly friendly to  each other and very bored with scratching out existence on the  Empire's rocky western edge, the mystery of just what would shake a  dwarf's sanity begs your attention. And now Leo brings his father's  journal: greenskins!

Greenskins aren't so tough. Then again, there is the matter of the priestess...

I would like to record the 4 hour session. Maybe just blog/tweet the hell out of it. I'll play it by ear.

My copy arrived last week.

After a vacation in the mountains, I finally set up the game, cut the counters and ran through one of the scenarios.

Wow... Excellent game!

I poked good natured fun at the "removal of the gameyness" but I see the balance of complexity and approachability is met.

I have some rule questions, yet otherwise a great show by MMP.

I just finished my psql upgrade. It went flawlessly for a DBA hack.

I am typing this in vi over SSH on the EDGE network on my iPhonr. Sad isn't it? ~o)

I downloaded NetBeans 6.5 last night.

They fixed the problem on Mac (and some Linux platforms) where the cursor would lose focus in the editor, making the intellisense nigh unusable. NetBeans 6.5 remains easy to use and new features look promising, especially the JavaScript library support.

I'm a NetBeans adherent. I work amongst a cadre of Eclipse advocates. Understand, nothing wrong with Eclipse, it's a fine IDE. Except I find the Eclipse website and "perspectives" mind numbing.

A visit to Eclipse.org leaves you wondering, "What exactly do I need to download to write Java?" NetBeans.org has a prominent link on the homepage and a very simple chart. BAM! IDE ready to go.

Once you have Eclipse, navigating through "perspectives" can leave a developer lost as the entire interface might change. Forget remembering where "that button" is, it was sure to have moved in the perspective.

My two cents. Give NetBeans a spin. You won't be disappointed.

I went to NoFluffJustStuff this weekend with coworkers. Spent the weekend in Reston, VA, USA (near Washington, D.C.).

While the nerd level remained high across all the sessions, we spent the nights enjoying live music in small bars in Georgetown and Alexandria.

Downtime consisted of trolling for coffee and reading source material for my WFRP campaign (that is about to get underway again after 4+ weeks off). ~o)

With my new PostgreSQL backend, I'm planning some migration of ACD and other services currently “in production.”

Some downtime will be expected, but it should be short. Everything is conceptual at the moment, because there will be some feature loss with moving to the new blog platform series. I'm hoping to improve some resource management on the server at the some time by consolidating the engines running on the backend.

This is a peek behind the curtain how a geek's mind works... ~o)

There are a lot of "What's your IP" services on the net. This is not about those.

I had a need today to load a shell script with the IP address of my interface at work. ifconfig told me, but it was noisy. So I crafted the following one-liner on the command line then used it in the shell script (depending on your distro, you might have better ways, but this solved an immediate need):

IP=`ifconfig en0 | grep -w inet | cut -d ' ' -f 2`

I just learned that a table opened at Penguicon for running a game.

It's been 20 years since I ran at a con (AFF c. 1989). It was a rocky game of Shadowrun 1st ed. I think I had 20 minutes to prep.

Here's my primer:

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, 2d edition

WFRP is Games Workshop's groundbreaking RPG set in the epic, grim and perilous world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. WFRP 2d Edition expands and builds on the 20 year old system that won accolades in 1986.

Poisoned Borders, an ongoing personal campaign, is spun off in this  one-shot as local heroes bravely pickup where transient heroes left  off...

"Three days ago, an elf, a dwarf and a priest of Sigmar returned with  two men-at-arms and the dwarf high priestess of Valaya. Without as much as a word, they left Helmgart for Bretonnia in the west. In their  wake: joy and mystery. The priestess, regaled as a hero for returning with a lost tome of healing that promised a cure to the racking cough plaguing townfolk and garrison, decended into madness. Her ever public rantings foretell  greater dangers lurking in the steep mountains above Helmgart."

The party of 4-6 players are locals of Helmgart. Mostly friendly to  each other and very bored with scratching out existence on the  Empire's rocky western edge, the mystery of just what would shake a  dwarf's sanity begs your attention. And now Leo brings his father's  journal: greenskins!

Greenskins aren't so tough. Then again, there is the matter of the priestess...

I would like to record the 4 hour session. Maybe just blog/tweet the hell out of it. I'll play it by ear.

My copy arrived last week.

After a vacation in the mountains, I finally set up the game, cut the counters and ran through one of the scenarios.

Wow... Excellent game!

I poked good natured fun at the "removal of the gameyness" but I see the balance of complexity and approachability is met.

I have some rule questions, yet otherwise a great show by MMP.

I just finished my psql upgrade. It went flawlessly for a DBA hack.

I am typing this in vi over SSH on the EDGE network on my iPhonr. Sad isn't it? ~o)

I downloaded NetBeans 6.5 last night.

They fixed the problem on Mac (and some Linux platforms) where the cursor would lose focus in the editor, making the intellisense nigh unusable. NetBeans 6.5 remains easy to use and new features look promising, especially the JavaScript library support.

I'm a NetBeans adherent. I work amongst a cadre of Eclipse advocates. Understand, nothing wrong with Eclipse, it's a fine IDE. Except I find the Eclipse website and "perspectives" mind numbing.

A visit to Eclipse.org leaves you wondering, "What exactly do I need to download to write Java?" NetBeans.org has a prominent link on the homepage and a very simple chart. BAM! IDE ready to go.

Once you have Eclipse, navigating through "perspectives" can leave a developer lost as the entire interface might change. Forget remembering where "that button" is, it was sure to have moved in the perspective.

My two cents. Give NetBeans a spin. You won't be disappointed.

I went to NoFluffJustStuff this weekend with coworkers. Spent the weekend in Reston, VA, USA (near Washington, D.C.).

While the nerd level remained high across all the sessions, we spent the nights enjoying live music in small bars in Georgetown and Alexandria.

Downtime consisted of trolling for coffee and reading source material for my WFRP campaign (that is about to get underway again after 4+ weeks off). ~o)

With my new PostgreSQL backend, I'm planning some migration of ACD and other services currently “in production.”

Some downtime will be expected, but it should be short. Everything is conceptual at the moment, because there will be some feature loss with moving to the new blog platform series. I'm hoping to improve some resource management on the server at the some time by consolidating the engines running on the backend.

This is a peek behind the curtain how a geek's mind works... ~o)

There are a lot of "What's your IP" services on the net. This is not about those.

I had a need today to load a shell script with the IP address of my interface at work. ifconfig told me, but it was noisy. So I crafted the following one-liner on the command line then used it in the shell script (depending on your distro, you might have better ways, but this solved an immediate need):

IP=`ifconfig en0 | grep -w inet | cut -d ' ' -f 2`

I just learned that a table opened at Penguicon for running a game.

It's been 20 years since I ran at a con (AFF c. 1989). It was a rocky game of Shadowrun 1st ed. I think I had 20 minutes to prep.

Here's my primer:

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, 2d edition

WFRP is Games Workshop's groundbreaking RPG set in the epic, grim and perilous world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. WFRP 2d Edition expands and builds on the 20 year old system that won accolades in 1986.

Poisoned Borders, an ongoing personal campaign, is spun off in this  one-shot as local heroes bravely pickup where transient heroes left  off...

"Three days ago, an elf, a dwarf and a priest of Sigmar returned with  two men-at-arms and the dwarf high priestess of Valaya. Without as much as a word, they left Helmgart for Bretonnia in the west. In their  wake: joy and mystery. The priestess, regaled as a hero for returning with a lost tome of healing that promised a cure to the racking cough plaguing townfolk and garrison, decended into madness. Her ever public rantings foretell  greater dangers lurking in the steep mountains above Helmgart."

The party of 4-6 players are locals of Helmgart. Mostly friendly to  each other and very bored with scratching out existence on the  Empire's rocky western edge, the mystery of just what would shake a  dwarf's sanity begs your attention. And now Leo brings his father's  journal: greenskins!

Greenskins aren't so tough. Then again, there is the matter of the priestess...

I would like to record the 4 hour session. Maybe just blog/tweet the hell out of it. I'll play it by ear.

My copy arrived last week.

After a vacation in the mountains, I finally set up the game, cut the counters and ran through one of the scenarios.

Wow... Excellent game!

I poked good natured fun at the "removal of the gameyness" but I see the balance of complexity and approachability is met.

I have some rule questions, yet otherwise a great show by MMP.

I just finished my psql upgrade. It went flawlessly for a DBA hack.

I am typing this in vi over SSH on the EDGE network on my iPhonr. Sad isn't it? ~o)

I downloaded NetBeans 6.5 last night.

They fixed the problem on Mac (and some Linux platforms) where the cursor would lose focus in the editor, making the intellisense nigh unusable. NetBeans 6.5 remains easy to use and new features look promising, especially the JavaScript library support.

I'm a NetBeans adherent. I work amongst a cadre of Eclipse advocates. Understand, nothing wrong with Eclipse, it's a fine IDE. Except I find the Eclipse website and "perspectives" mind numbing.

A visit to Eclipse.org leaves you wondering, "What exactly do I need to download to write Java?" NetBeans.org has a prominent link on the homepage and a very simple chart. BAM! IDE ready to go.

Once you have Eclipse, navigating through "perspectives" can leave a developer lost as the entire interface might change. Forget remembering where "that button" is, it was sure to have moved in the perspective.

My two cents. Give NetBeans a spin. You won't be disappointed.

I went to NoFluffJustStuff this weekend with coworkers. Spent the weekend in Reston, VA, USA (near Washington, D.C.).

While the nerd level remained high across all the sessions, we spent the nights enjoying live music in small bars in Georgetown and Alexandria.

Downtime consisted of trolling for coffee and reading source material for my WFRP campaign (that is about to get underway again after 4+ weeks off). ~o)

With my new PostgreSQL backend, I'm planning some migration of ACD and other services currently “in production.”

Some downtime will be expected, but it should be short. Everything is conceptual at the moment, because there will be some feature loss with moving to the new blog platform series. I'm hoping to improve some resource management on the server at the some time by consolidating the engines running on the backend.

This is a peek behind the curtain how a geek's mind works... ~o)

There are a lot of "What's your IP" services on the net. This is not about those.

I had a need today to load a shell script with the IP address of my interface at work. ifconfig told me, but it was noisy. So I crafted the following one-liner on the command line then used it in the shell script (depending on your distro, you might have better ways, but this solved an immediate need):

IP=`ifconfig en0 | grep -w inet | cut -d ' ' -f 2`

I just learned that a table opened at Penguicon for running a game.

It's been 20 years since I ran at a con (AFF c. 1989). It was a rocky game of Shadowrun 1st ed. I think I had 20 minutes to prep.

Here's my primer:

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, 2d edition

WFRP is Games Workshop's groundbreaking RPG set in the epic, grim and perilous world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. WFRP 2d Edition expands and builds on the 20 year old system that won accolades in 1986.

Poisoned Borders, an ongoing personal campaign, is spun off in this  one-shot as local heroes bravely pickup where transient heroes left  off...

"Three days ago, an elf, a dwarf and a priest of Sigmar returned with  two men-at-arms and the dwarf high priestess of Valaya. Without as much as a word, they left Helmgart for Bretonnia in the west. In their  wake: joy and mystery. The priestess, regaled as a hero for returning with a lost tome of healing that promised a cure to the racking cough plaguing townfolk and garrison, decended into madness. Her ever public rantings foretell  greater dangers lurking in the steep mountains above Helmgart."

The party of 4-6 players are locals of Helmgart. Mostly friendly to  each other and very bored with scratching out existence on the  Empire's rocky western edge, the mystery of just what would shake a  dwarf's sanity begs your attention. And now Leo brings his father's  journal: greenskins!

Greenskins aren't so tough. Then again, there is the matter of the priestess...

I would like to record the 4 hour session. Maybe just blog/tweet the hell out of it. I'll play it by ear.

My copy arrived last week.

After a vacation in the mountains, I finally set up the game, cut the counters and ran through one of the scenarios.

Wow... Excellent game!

I poked good natured fun at the "removal of the gameyness" but I see the balance of complexity and approachability is met.

I have some rule questions, yet otherwise a great show by MMP.

I just finished my psql upgrade. It went flawlessly for a DBA hack.

I am typing this in vi over SSH on the EDGE network on my iPhonr. Sad isn't it? ~o)

I downloaded NetBeans 6.5 last night.

They fixed the problem on Mac (and some Linux platforms) where the cursor would lose focus in the editor, making the intellisense nigh unusable. NetBeans 6.5 remains easy to use and new features look promising, especially the JavaScript library support.

I'm a NetBeans adherent. I work amongst a cadre of Eclipse advocates. Understand, nothing wrong with Eclipse, it's a fine IDE. Except I find the Eclipse website and "perspectives" mind numbing.

A visit to Eclipse.org leaves you wondering, "What exactly do I need to download to write Java?" NetBeans.org has a prominent link on the homepage and a very simple chart. BAM! IDE ready to go.

Once you have Eclipse, navigating through "perspectives" can leave a developer lost as the entire interface might change. Forget remembering where "that button" is, it was sure to have moved in the perspective.

My two cents. Give NetBeans a spin. You won't be disappointed.

I went to NoFluffJustStuff this weekend with coworkers. Spent the weekend in Reston, VA, USA (near Washington, D.C.).

While the nerd level remained high across all the sessions, we spent the nights enjoying live music in small bars in Georgetown and Alexandria.

Downtime consisted of trolling for coffee and reading source material for my WFRP campaign (that is about to get underway again after 4+ weeks off). ~o)

With my new PostgreSQL backend, I'm planning some migration of ACD and other services currently “in production.”

Some downtime will be expected, but it should be short. Everything is conceptual at the moment, because there will be some feature loss with moving to the new blog platform series. I'm hoping to improve some resource management on the server at the some time by consolidating the engines running on the backend.

This is a peek behind the curtain how a geek's mind works... ~o)

There are a lot of "What's your IP" services on the net. This is not about those.

I had a need today to load a shell script with the IP address of my interface at work. ifconfig told me, but it was noisy. So I crafted the following one-liner on the command line then used it in the shell script (depending on your distro, you might have better ways, but this solved an immediate need):

IP=`ifconfig en0 | grep -w inet | cut -d ' ' -f 2`

I just learned that a table opened at Penguicon for running a game.

It's been 20 years since I ran at a con (AFF c. 1989). It was a rocky game of Shadowrun 1st ed. I think I had 20 minutes to prep.

Here's my primer:

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, 2d edition

WFRP is Games Workshop's groundbreaking RPG set in the epic, grim and perilous world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. WFRP 2d Edition expands and builds on the 20 year old system that won accolades in 1986.

Poisoned Borders, an ongoing personal campaign, is spun off in this  one-shot as local heroes bravely pickup where transient heroes left  off...

"Three days ago, an elf, a dwarf and a priest of Sigmar returned with  two men-at-arms and the dwarf high priestess of Valaya. Without as much as a word, they left Helmgart for Bretonnia in the west. In their  wake: joy and mystery. The priestess, regaled as a hero for returning with a lost tome of healing that promised a cure to the racking cough plaguing townfolk and garrison, decended into madness. Her ever public rantings foretell  greater dangers lurking in the steep mountains above Helmgart."

The party of 4-6 players are locals of Helmgart. Mostly friendly to  each other and very bored with scratching out existence on the  Empire's rocky western edge, the mystery of just what would shake a  dwarf's sanity begs your attention. And now Leo brings his father's  journal: greenskins!

Greenskins aren't so tough. Then again, there is the matter of the priestess...

I would like to record the 4 hour session. Maybe just blog/tweet the hell out of it. I'll play it by ear.

My copy arrived last week.

After a vacation in the mountains, I finally set up the game, cut the counters and ran through one of the scenarios.

Wow... Excellent game!

I poked good natured fun at the "removal of the gameyness" but I see the balance of complexity and approachability is met.

I have some rule questions, yet otherwise a great show by MMP.

I just finished my psql upgrade. It went flawlessly for a DBA hack.

I am typing this in vi over SSH on the EDGE network on my iPhonr. Sad isn't it? ~o)

I downloaded NetBeans 6.5 last night.

They fixed the problem on Mac (and some Linux platforms) where the cursor would lose focus in the editor, making the intellisense nigh unusable. NetBeans 6.5 remains easy to use and new features look promising, especially the JavaScript library support.

I'm a NetBeans adherent. I work amongst a cadre of Eclipse advocates. Understand, nothing wrong with Eclipse, it's a fine IDE. Except I find the Eclipse website and "perspectives" mind numbing.

A visit to Eclipse.org leaves you wondering, "What exactly do I need to download to write Java?" NetBeans.org has a prominent link on the homepage and a very simple chart. BAM! IDE ready to go.

Once you have Eclipse, navigating through "perspectives" can leave a developer lost as the entire interface might change. Forget remembering where "that button" is, it was sure to have moved in the perspective.

My two cents. Give NetBeans a spin. You won't be disappointed.

I went to NoFluffJustStuff this weekend with coworkers. Spent the weekend in Reston, VA, USA (near Washington, D.C.).

While the nerd level remained high across all the sessions, we spent the nights enjoying live music in small bars in Georgetown and Alexandria.

Downtime consisted of trolling for coffee and reading source material for my WFRP campaign (that is about to get underway again after 4+ weeks off). ~o)

With my new PostgreSQL backend, I'm planning some migration of ACD and other services currently “in production.”

Some downtime will be expected, but it should be short. Everything is conceptual at the moment, because there will be some feature loss with moving to the new blog platform series. I'm hoping to improve some resource management on the server at the some time by consolidating the engines running on the backend.

This is a peek behind the curtain how a geek's mind works... ~o)

There are a lot of "What's your IP" services on the net. This is not about those.

I had a need today to load a shell script with the IP address of my interface at work. ifconfig told me, but it was noisy. So I crafted the following one-liner on the command line then used it in the shell script (depending on your distro, you might have better ways, but this solved an immediate need):

IP=`ifconfig en0 | grep -w inet | cut -d ' ' -f 2`

I just learned that a table opened at Penguicon for running a game.

It's been 20 years since I ran at a con (AFF c. 1989). It was a rocky game of Shadowrun 1st ed. I think I had 20 minutes to prep.

Here's my primer:

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, 2d edition

WFRP is Games Workshop's groundbreaking RPG set in the epic, grim and perilous world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. WFRP 2d Edition expands and builds on the 20 year old system that won accolades in 1986.

Poisoned Borders, an ongoing personal campaign, is spun off in this  one-shot as local heroes bravely pickup where transient heroes left  off...

"Three days ago, an elf, a dwarf and a priest of Sigmar returned with  two men-at-arms and the dwarf high priestess of Valaya. Without as much as a word, they left Helmgart for Bretonnia in the west. In their  wake: joy and mystery. The priestess, regaled as a hero for returning with a lost tome of healing that promised a cure to the racking cough plaguing townfolk and garrison, decended into madness. Her ever public rantings foretell  greater dangers lurking in the steep mountains above Helmgart."

The party of 4-6 players are locals of Helmgart. Mostly friendly to  each other and very bored with scratching out existence on the  Empire's rocky western edge, the mystery of just what would shake a  dwarf's sanity begs your attention. And now Leo brings his father's  journal: greenskins!

Greenskins aren't so tough. Then again, there is the matter of the priestess...

I would like to record the 4 hour session. Maybe just blog/tweet the hell out of it. I'll play it by ear.

My copy arrived last week.

After a vacation in the mountains, I finally set up the game, cut the counters and ran through one of the scenarios.

Wow... Excellent game!

I poked good natured fun at the "removal of the gameyness" but I see the balance of complexity and approachability is met.

I have some rule questions, yet otherwise a great show by MMP.

I just finished my psql upgrade. It went flawlessly for a DBA hack.

I am typing this in vi over SSH on the EDGE network on my iPhonr. Sad isn't it? ~o)

I downloaded NetBeans 6.5 last night.

They fixed the problem on Mac (and some Linux platforms) where the cursor would lose focus in the editor, making the intellisense nigh unusable. NetBeans 6.5 remains easy to use and new features look promising, especially the JavaScript library support.

I'm a NetBeans adherent. I work amongst a cadre of Eclipse advocates. Understand, nothing wrong with Eclipse, it's a fine IDE. Except I find the Eclipse website and "perspectives" mind numbing.

A visit to Eclipse.org leaves you wondering, "What exactly do I need to download to write Java?" NetBeans.org has a prominent link on the homepage and a very simple chart. BAM! IDE ready to go.

Once you have Eclipse, navigating through "perspectives" can leave a developer lost as the entire interface might change. Forget remembering where "that button" is, it was sure to have moved in the perspective.

My two cents. Give NetBeans a spin. You won't be disappointed.

I went to NoFluffJustStuff this weekend with coworkers. Spent the weekend in Reston, VA, USA (near Washington, D.C.).

While the nerd level remained high across all the sessions, we spent the nights enjoying live music in small bars in Georgetown and Alexandria.

Downtime consisted of trolling for coffee and reading source material for my WFRP campaign (that is about to get underway again after 4+ weeks off). ~o)

With my new PostgreSQL backend, I'm planning some migration of ACD and other services currently “in production.”

Some downtime will be expected, but it should be short. Everything is conceptual at the moment, because there will be some feature loss with moving to the new blog platform series. I'm hoping to improve some resource management on the server at the some time by consolidating the engines running on the backend.

This is a peek behind the curtain how a geek's mind works... ~o)

There are a lot of "What's your IP" services on the net. This is not about those.

I had a need today to load a shell script with the IP address of my interface at work. ifconfig told me, but it was noisy. So I crafted the following one-liner on the command line then used it in the shell script (depending on your distro, you might have better ways, but this solved an immediate need):

IP=`ifconfig en0 | grep -w inet | cut -d ' ' -f 2`

I just learned that a table opened at Penguicon for running a game.

It's been 20 years since I ran at a con (AFF c. 1989). It was a rocky game of Shadowrun 1st ed. I think I had 20 minutes to prep.

Here's my primer:

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, 2d edition

WFRP is Games Workshop's groundbreaking RPG set in the epic, grim and perilous world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. WFRP 2d Edition expands and builds on the 20 year old system that won accolades in 1986.

Poisoned Borders, an ongoing personal campaign, is spun off in this  one-shot as local heroes bravely pickup where transient heroes left  off...

"Three days ago, an elf, a dwarf and a priest of Sigmar returned with  two men-at-arms and the dwarf high priestess of Valaya. Without as much as a word, they left Helmgart for Bretonnia in the west. In their  wake: joy and mystery. The priestess, regaled as a hero for returning with a lost tome of healing that promised a cure to the racking cough plaguing townfolk and garrison, decended into madness. Her ever public rantings foretell  greater dangers lurking in the steep mountains above Helmgart."

The party of 4-6 players are locals of Helmgart. Mostly friendly to  each other and very bored with scratching out existence on the  Empire's rocky western edge, the mystery of just what would shake a  dwarf's sanity begs your attention. And now Leo brings his father's  journal: greenskins!

Greenskins aren't so tough. Then again, there is the matter of the priestess...

I would like to record the 4 hour session. Maybe just blog/tweet the hell out of it. I'll play it by ear.

My copy arrived last week.

After a vacation in the mountains, I finally set up the game, cut the counters and ran through one of the scenarios.

Wow... Excellent game!

I poked good natured fun at the "removal of the gameyness" but I see the balance of complexity and approachability is met.

I have some rule questions, yet otherwise a great show by MMP.

I just finished my psql upgrade. It went flawlessly for a DBA hack.

I am typing this in vi over SSH on the EDGE network on my iPhonr. Sad isn't it? ~o)

I downloaded NetBeans 6.5 last night.

They fixed the problem on Mac (and some Linux platforms) where the cursor would lose focus in the editor, making the intellisense nigh unusable. NetBeans 6.5 remains easy to use and new features look promising, especially the JavaScript library support.

I'm a NetBeans adherent. I work amongst a cadre of Eclipse advocates. Understand, nothing wrong with Eclipse, it's a fine IDE. Except I find the Eclipse website and "perspectives" mind numbing.

A visit to Eclipse.org leaves you wondering, "What exactly do I need to download to write Java?" NetBeans.org has a prominent link on the homepage and a very simple chart. BAM! IDE ready to go.

Once you have Eclipse, navigating through "perspectives" can leave a developer lost as the entire interface might change. Forget remembering where "that button" is, it was sure to have moved in the perspective.

My two cents. Give NetBeans a spin. You won't be disappointed.

I went to NoFluffJustStuff this weekend with coworkers. Spent the weekend in Reston, VA, USA (near Washington, D.C.).

While the nerd level remained high across all the sessions, we spent the nights enjoying live music in small bars in Georgetown and Alexandria.

Downtime consisted of trolling for coffee and reading source material for my WFRP campaign (that is about to get underway again after 4+ weeks off). ~o)

With my new PostgreSQL backend, I'm planning some migration of ACD and other services currently “in production.”

Some downtime will be expected, but it should be short. Everything is conceptual at the moment, because there will be some feature loss with moving to the new blog platform series. I'm hoping to improve some resource management on the server at the some time by consolidating the engines running on the backend.

This is a peek behind the curtain how a geek's mind works... ~o)

There are a lot of "What's your IP" services on the net. This is not about those.

I had a need today to load a shell script with the IP address of my interface at work. ifconfig told me, but it was noisy. So I crafted the following one-liner on the command line then used it in the shell script (depending on your distro, you might have better ways, but this solved an immediate need):

IP=`ifconfig en0 | grep -w inet | cut -d ' ' -f 2`

I just learned that a table opened at Penguicon for running a game.

It's been 20 years since I ran at a con (AFF c. 1989). It was a rocky game of Shadowrun 1st ed. I think I had 20 minutes to prep.

Here's my primer:

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, 2d edition

WFRP is Games Workshop's groundbreaking RPG set in the epic, grim and perilous world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. WFRP 2d Edition expands and builds on the 20 year old system that won accolades in 1986.

Poisoned Borders, an ongoing personal campaign, is spun off in this  one-shot as local heroes bravely pickup where transient heroes left  off...

"Three days ago, an elf, a dwarf and a priest of Sigmar returned with  two men-at-arms and the dwarf high priestess of Valaya. Without as much as a word, they left Helmgart for Bretonnia in the west. In their  wake: joy and mystery. The priestess, regaled as a hero for returning with a lost tome of healing that promised a cure to the racking cough plaguing townfolk and garrison, decended into madness. Her ever public rantings foretell  greater dangers lurking in the steep mountains above Helmgart."

The party of 4-6 players are locals of Helmgart. Mostly friendly to  each other and very bored with scratching out existence on the  Empire's rocky western edge, the mystery of just what would shake a  dwarf's sanity begs your attention. And now Leo brings his father's  journal: greenskins!

Greenskins aren't so tough. Then again, there is the matter of the priestess...

I would like to record the 4 hour session. Maybe just blog/tweet the hell out of it. I'll play it by ear.

My copy arrived last week.

After a vacation in the mountains, I finally set up the game, cut the counters and ran through one of the scenarios.

Wow... Excellent game!

I poked good natured fun at the "removal of the gameyness" but I see the balance of complexity and approachability is met.

I have some rule questions, yet otherwise a great show by MMP.

I just finished my psql upgrade. It went flawlessly for a DBA hack.

I am typing this in vi over SSH on the EDGE network on my iPhonr. Sad isn't it? ~o)

I downloaded NetBeans 6.5 last night.

They fixed the problem on Mac (and some Linux platforms) where the cursor would lose focus in the editor, making the intellisense nigh unusable. NetBeans 6.5 remains easy to use and new features look promising, especially the JavaScript library support.

I'm a NetBeans adherent. I work amongst a cadre of Eclipse advocates. Understand, nothing wrong with Eclipse, it's a fine IDE. Except I find the Eclipse website and "perspectives" mind numbing.

A visit to Eclipse.org leaves you wondering, "What exactly do I need to download to write Java?" NetBeans.org has a prominent link on the homepage and a very simple chart. BAM! IDE ready to go.

Once you have Eclipse, navigating through "perspectives" can leave a developer lost as the entire interface might change. Forget remembering where "that button" is, it was sure to have moved in the perspective.

My two cents. Give NetBeans a spin. You won't be disappointed.

I went to NoFluffJustStuff this weekend with coworkers. Spent the weekend in Reston, VA, USA (near Washington, D.C.).

While the nerd level remained high across all the sessions, we spent the nights enjoying live music in small bars in Georgetown and Alexandria.

Downtime consisted of trolling for coffee and reading source material for my WFRP campaign (that is about to get underway again after 4+ weeks off). ~o)

With my new PostgreSQL backend, I'm planning some migration of ACD and other services currently “in production.”

Some downtime will be expected, but it should be short. Everything is conceptual at the moment, because there will be some feature loss with moving to the new blog platform series. I'm hoping to improve some resource management on the server at the some time by consolidating the engines running on the backend.

This is a peek behind the curtain how a geek's mind works... ~o)

There are a lot of "What's your IP" services on the net. This is not about those.

I had a need today to load a shell script with the IP address of my interface at work. ifconfig told me, but it was noisy. So I crafted the following one-liner on the command line then used it in the shell script (depending on your distro, you might have better ways, but this solved an immediate need):

IP=`ifconfig en0 | grep -w inet | cut -d ' ' -f 2`

I just learned that a table opened at Penguicon for running a game.

It's been 20 years since I ran at a con (AFF c. 1989). It was a rocky game of Shadowrun 1st ed. I think I had 20 minutes to prep.

Here's my primer:

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, 2d edition

WFRP is Games Workshop's groundbreaking RPG set in the epic, grim and perilous world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. WFRP 2d Edition expands and builds on the 20 year old system that won accolades in 1986.

Poisoned Borders, an ongoing personal campaign, is spun off in this  one-shot as local heroes bravely pickup where transient heroes left  off...

"Three days ago, an elf, a dwarf and a priest of Sigmar returned with  two men-at-arms and the dwarf high priestess of Valaya. Without as much as a word, they left Helmgart for Bretonnia in the west. In their  wake: joy and mystery. The priestess, regaled as a hero for returning with a lost tome of healing that promised a cure to the racking cough plaguing townfolk and garrison, decended into madness. Her ever public rantings foretell  greater dangers lurking in the steep mountains above Helmgart."

The party of 4-6 players are locals of Helmgart. Mostly friendly to  each other and very bored with scratching out existence on the  Empire's rocky western edge, the mystery of just what would shake a  dwarf's sanity begs your attention. And now Leo brings his father's  journal: greenskins!

Greenskins aren't so tough. Then again, there is the matter of the priestess...

I would like to record the 4 hour session. Maybe just blog/tweet the hell out of it. I'll play it by ear.

My copy arrived last week.

After a vacation in the mountains, I finally set up the game, cut the counters and ran through one of the scenarios.

Wow... Excellent game!

I poked good natured fun at the "removal of the gameyness" but I see the balance of complexity and approachability is met.

I have some rule questions, yet otherwise a great show by MMP.

I just finished my psql upgrade. It went flawlessly for a DBA hack.

I am typing this in vi over SSH on the EDGE network on my iPhonr. Sad isn't it? ~o)

I downloaded NetBeans 6.5 last night.

They fixed the problem on Mac (and some Linux platforms) where the cursor would lose focus in the editor, making the intellisense nigh unusable. NetBeans 6.5 remains easy to use and new features look promising, especially the JavaScript library support.

I'm a NetBeans adherent. I work amongst a cadre of Eclipse advocates. Understand, nothing wrong with Eclipse, it's a fine IDE. Except I find the Eclipse website and "perspectives" mind numbing.

A visit to Eclipse.org leaves you wondering, "What exactly do I need to download to write Java?" NetBeans.org has a prominent link on the homepage and a very simple chart. BAM! IDE ready to go.

Once you have Eclipse, navigating through "perspectives" can leave a developer lost as the entire interface might change. Forget remembering where "that button" is, it was sure to have moved in the perspective.

My two cents. Give NetBeans a spin. You won't be disappointed.

I went to NoFluffJustStuff this weekend with coworkers. Spent the weekend in Reston, VA, USA (near Washington, D.C.).

While the nerd level remained high across all the sessions, we spent the nights enjoying live music in small bars in Georgetown and Alexandria.

Downtime consisted of trolling for coffee and reading source material for my WFRP campaign (that is about to get underway again after 4+ weeks off). ~o)

With my new PostgreSQL backend, I'm planning some migration of ACD and other services currently “in production.”

Some downtime will be expected, but it should be short. Everything is conceptual at the moment, because there will be some feature loss with moving to the new blog platform series. I'm hoping to improve some resource management on the server at the some time by consolidating the engines running on the backend.

This is a peek behind the curtain how a geek's mind works... ~o)

There are a lot of "What's your IP" services on the net. This is not about those.

I had a need today to load a shell script with the IP address of my interface at work. ifconfig told me, but it was noisy. So I crafted the following one-liner on the command line then used it in the shell script (depending on your distro, you might have better ways, but this solved an immediate need):

IP=`ifconfig en0 | grep -w inet | cut -d ' ' -f 2`

I just learned that a table opened at Penguicon for running a game.

It's been 20 years since I ran at a con (AFF c. 1989). It was a rocky game of Shadowrun 1st ed. I think I had 20 minutes to prep.

Here's my primer:

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, 2d edition

WFRP is Games Workshop's groundbreaking RPG set in the epic, grim and perilous world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. WFRP 2d Edition expands and builds on the 20 year old system that won accolades in 1986.

Poisoned Borders, an ongoing personal campaign, is spun off in this  one-shot as local heroes bravely pickup where transient heroes left  off...

"Three days ago, an elf, a dwarf and a priest of Sigmar returned with  two men-at-arms and the dwarf high priestess of Valaya. Without as much as a word, they left Helmgart for Bretonnia in the west. In their  wake: joy and mystery. The priestess, regaled as a hero for returning with a lost tome of healing that promised a cure to the racking cough plaguing townfolk and garrison, decended into madness. Her ever public rantings foretell  greater dangers lurking in the steep mountains above Helmgart."

The party of 4-6 players are locals of Helmgart. Mostly friendly to  each other and very bored with scratching out existence on the  Empire's rocky western edge, the mystery of just what would shake a  dwarf's sanity begs your attention. And now Leo brings his father's  journal: greenskins!

Greenskins aren't so tough. Then again, there is the matter of the priestess...

I would like to record the 4 hour session. Maybe just blog/tweet the hell out of it. I'll play it by ear.

My copy arrived last week.

After a vacation in the mountains, I finally set up the game, cut the counters and ran through one of the scenarios.

Wow... Excellent game!

I poked good natured fun at the "removal of the gameyness" but I see the balance of complexity and approachability is met.

I have some rule questions, yet otherwise a great show by MMP.

I just finished my psql upgrade. It went flawlessly for a DBA hack.

I am typing this in vi over SSH on the EDGE network on my iPhonr. Sad isn't it? ~o)

I downloaded NetBeans 6.5 last night.

They fixed the problem on Mac (and some Linux platforms) where the cursor would lose focus in the editor, making the intellisense nigh unusable. NetBeans 6.5 remains easy to use and new features look promising, especially the JavaScript library support.

I'm a NetBeans adherent. I work amongst a cadre of Eclipse advocates. Understand, nothing wrong with Eclipse, it's a fine IDE. Except I find the Eclipse website and "perspectives" mind numbing.

A visit to Eclipse.org leaves you wondering, "What exactly do I need to download to write Java?" NetBeans.org has a prominent link on the homepage and a very simple chart. BAM! IDE ready to go.

Once you have Eclipse, navigating through "perspectives" can leave a developer lost as the entire interface might change. Forget remembering where "that button" is, it was sure to have moved in the perspective.

My two cents. Give NetBeans a spin. You won't be disappointed.

I went to NoFluffJustStuff this weekend with coworkers. Spent the weekend in Reston, VA, USA (near Washington, D.C.).

While the nerd level remained high across all the sessions, we spent the nights enjoying live music in small bars in Georgetown and Alexandria.

Downtime consisted of trolling for coffee and reading source material for my WFRP campaign (that is about to get underway again after 4+ weeks off). ~o)

With my new PostgreSQL backend, I'm planning some migration of ACD and other services currently “in production.”

Some downtime will be expected, but it should be short. Everything is conceptual at the moment, because there will be some feature loss with moving to the new blog platform series. I'm hoping to improve some resource management on the server at the some time by consolidating the engines running on the backend.

This is a peek behind the curtain how a geek's mind works... ~o)

There are a lot of "What's your IP" services on the net. This is not about those.

I had a need today to load a shell script with the IP address of my interface at work. ifconfig told me, but it was noisy. So I crafted the following one-liner on the command line then used it in the shell script (depending on your distro, you might have better ways, but this solved an immediate need):

IP=`ifconfig en0 | grep -w inet | cut -d ' ' -f 2`