Year: 2008
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Violet (Interactive Fiction)
It's been a long while, but I've got some more interactive fiction to recommend: Violet, by Jeremy Freese. It's got all of the usual things I like in a modern piece of interactive fiction: a believable, detailed world that you can really feel like you're a part of, and which "carries on" around you; a …
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How to be Mono-Friendly
Freaksexual just wrote a fantastic blog post (as usual) instructing monogamous people "How to be Poly-Friendly". It's an excellent little post about the kinds of faux pas it's easy to make without even thinking about it, and while it's very obviously targetted at monogamous folk who have polyamourous friends or lovers, I couldn't help but …
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Two Recent Dreams
Summaries of two dreams I've had recently:
The Parrot
Faye was moving out of her family home and into a flat of her own, and as it was small, she wasn't able to provide sufficient space for all of her many critters, so she rehomed a parrot (a Scarlet Macaw, although I'm pretty sure she only has … -
Mi Parolas Esperanton! (Apenaŭ)
Antaŭ pluraj semajnoj, mi havis sonĝo. Mi sonĝis de mi parolas Esperanton. Neniu rajtas diri mi ne postiras mia sonĝoj, ĉar mi komencis lerni la lingvo!
(sed mi bezonis vortaron por skribis jenon)
Translation of my very rough-and-ready multilingual work, above: Several weeks ago, I had a dream. I dreamt that I spoke Esperanto. Nobody may say … -
Toilets With Urinals? Toilets Without Urinals?
Remember this picture I took at BiCon this year?
Looks like as a concept it's going to become not-so-strange, according to a report in Metro: University students open trans-gender toilets. -
Interview Sarah Palin
Remember about four-and-a-bit years ago, I downloaded Dadadodo, which I described at the time as a "word disassociator?" The program itself is a Markov chain generator/randomiser that works on sentence structures: in other words, given some text (speeches, poetry, blog posts, whatever - other kinds have been demonstrated to work on things like music) it …
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Especially For Jimmy
You may have beaten me to the centre of the galaxy, Jimmy, but... -
Games I Have Been Playing Recently
There's a couple of computer games I've played recently that I thought I'd share with you so that you, too, can go play them and waste all your free time (hopefully you've got more free time than I do to be wasted!).
RUCKINGENUR II
Free (as in beer) to download and play - download it here. Windows … -
Pictures From PolyDay 2008
For the benefit of people I promised pictures to, here's some of the photos I took at PolyDay 2008, the post-Dossie Poly Meal, and generally during Claire and I's trip to London this weekend. There are more photos I'll share in due course, little doubt, and my write-up of what PolyDay was like, which I …
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SSL Client Certificate Authentication In Ruby On Rails
I've been playing with using client-side SSL certificates (installed into your web browser) as a means to authenticate against a Ruby on Rails-powered application. This subject is geeky and of limited interest even to the people who read this blog (with the possible exception of Ruth, who may find herself doing exactly this as part …
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Ruth's Blog Post
Dan came to see me this weekend, which was ace. On Saturday we went out to London and crammed so much into one day that I'm not sure I remember all of it. Here are the highlights:
Found a cool adult shop on Oxford Street called Harmony. Bought rope cuffs. Purple ones!
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Pictures From The Weekend
I couldn't (easily) post these pictures while out-and-about, so I thought I'd share them now:
The tailbackon the M6. That's a serious amount of traffic at a complete standstill, and people million about on the carriageway. In the distance, in the first one, you can just about make out the tops of the emergency services vehicles, … -
Back From BiCon
Just got back the The Cottage after the drive home from BiCon. Where'd we get to at the end of the previous post...? Ah, yes...
Naked Lunch Saturday was amazingly oversubscribed. One attendee, a regular to Naked Lunches for the last 10 years or so, described his experience of coming into the room and, at the … -
BiCon Fun And Games
It's been hard to find time to post a blog entry here, with everything that's been going on. Here's the quick rundown so far:
Thursday. Arrived. Checked in. Accommodation is a lot like Penbryn, for those who know what I mean, although with bigger (but more sterile-feeling) bedrooms. Caught up with loads of folks from last … -
Off To BiCon 2008
Right; I'm off to BiCon again. Just like last year, I'll probably blog from the event and let you all know what's going on. See a lot of you at Gareth & Penny's party on Saturday!