Zubon has a new chapter of his light-hearted but pretty insightful Dating for Gamers thread up at Kill Ten Rats.
He describes intragender communication in terms of filters for chat systems, and it sounds about right. One thing though: it occurs to me that I'm always filtering to make outgoing statements less confrontational and often reading incoming streams as though others are doing the same. I never got on all that well with the whole 'add offensiveness because the listener will take it out and consider it proof of good humour' thing.
In short, according to Zubon's colourful view of the situation, I'm a male nerd with chat filters wired like a woman...
He describes intragender communication in terms of filters for chat systems, and it sounds about right. One thing though: it occurs to me that I'm always filtering to make outgoing statements less confrontational and often reading incoming streams as though others are doing the same. I never got on all that well with the whole 'add offensiveness because the listener will take it out and consider it proof of good humour' thing.
In short, according to Zubon's colourful view of the situation, I'm a male nerd with chat filters wired like a woman...
The Microsoft Press self-paced training kit book for MCTS exam 70-836 (core stuff for .NET 2.0) contains the following statement:
I wonder if that's coming in version 3....[T]eleportation is not currently supported by the .NET framework...
It's game theory: who said maths wasn't practical!
This time it's about computers. I'm considering buying a new one.
At the Loch Ness Monster's 'official' site (and I blame Irregular Webcomic for sending me there) they have the most foul and terrible Flash animation I have ever seen.
See if you can spot it.
See if you can spot it.
Some of you may have been turned away from pages on the site by ugly validation error messages that killed the whole document. For once it's those with the decent browsers who are more likely to have had problems.
After a post of Gordon's got me thinking, I've made a new RSS feed showing only the pre-fold teaser sections of the posts. The full feed is still there, but people who don't often read the full posts or who view the feed inline with others can now have the cut-down version. Also available is the comments feed.
This article is alternatively entitled I can has SteddyCam?
"Why are you helping me?"
"Because I've had a bit part in the last two films, and this could be my only shot at female lead."
There are many roleplaying games - by which I mean published series of books or equivalent, rather than instances of those games - differing in purpose, emphasis and quality. Typically a game consists of a setting and a system, since fundamentally an RPG is part rules-competition and part storytelling; some products are all system (because the publisher is going to bring out multiple settings or because they expect you to write your own), or all setting (such as the many 'campaign settings' produced for D&D and other games). Today I'm talking system, because a conversation at one of the forums I haunt has reminded me of similar arguments in the past.
Although I've got a fair sized hosting setup running Debian Linux and supporting almost everything I need, my current line of professional development means that I really ought to be able to host ASP.NET applications, perhaps even with MS SQL support. Unfortunately my web hosts (Memset, who incidentally have been absolutely great for three years or so now) don't offer Windows on anything smaller than their medium sized virtual server (which is twice as powerful and expensive as my Linux setup, which I'm not making the most of as it is).
Anyone got any host recommendations for a small Windows web hosting account? I need an account that supports ASP.NET 2.0 and a database server (MS SQL would be worth more to me, but I can make do with MySQL).
[Please nobody mention Mono. It almost drove me crazy when I decided I wanted MonoDevelop, and after several hours in Dependency Hell trying to build it from source I opted to upgrade Debian to its 'Unstable' edition. I've checked the Debian package for libapache2-mod-mono and it requires a particular version of Apache 2, one of the less common execution models. Unfortunately, mod_php5 requires a different one, and since the execution models are mutually exclusive, so are mod_mono and mod_php5.]
Anyone got any host recommendations for a small Windows web hosting account? I need an account that supports ASP.NET 2.0 and a database server (MS SQL would be worth more to me, but I can make do with MySQL).
[Please nobody mention Mono. It almost drove me crazy when I decided I wanted MonoDevelop, and after several hours in Dependency Hell trying to build it from source I opted to upgrade Debian to its 'Unstable' edition. I've checked the Debian package for libapache2-mod-mono and it requires a particular version of Apache 2, one of the less common execution models. Unfortunately, mod_php5 requires a different one, and since the execution models are mutually exclusive, so are mod_mono and mod_php5.]
There's something wrong with TV adverts. Not all, of course, but certainly most...
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