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Rock Exchange
This weekend I hope to release Rock Exchange, my latest WikiGame on the RockMonkey wiki. I'm just finishing performing some tests and fine-tuning on it now. Here's a screenshot:
In Rock Exchange, players will be able to invest their hard-earned Rocks (a unit of currency) in shares in the various pages on the RockMonkey wiki. The … -
Client Of The Day
Oh, some of our clients are funny. A client of ours, who hosts her web site and e-mail with us, calls me up because she has difficulty getting access to her webmail:
Her: "My e-mail doesn't work."
Me: (not knowing much about her configuration) "Are you using a web browser to check your e-mail, over the web? … -
Frag!
Frag! arrived this afternoon, earlier than expected. If anybody wants to come around to The Flat in advance of Naruto Night this evening, we can have a quick blast at it... what do you think?
In other news, Predictive Solutions, with whom we share the offices on this, the first floor of the Aber Technium, are … -
[this post originally appeared on AvAngel.com; a copy is archived here]
It looks like the shit has hit the proverbial fan as far as Diogel is concerned. AvAngel.com, and all other sites formerly part of the Big McLargeHuge collective, is very, very dead.
This site is coming back online by installments. Watch this space.
Normal service will be … -
The Abnib Real Ale Ramble 2005
Wow; there seems to be a lot of interest in the idea I just blogged. That's brilliant!
Now there's just the small matter of arranging how everybody who wants to go is going to get there, and where they're going to stay once they have. To this end, I've set up a web page: The Abnib … -
Llanwrtyd Wells Real Ale Ramble
What's everybody doing on the third weekend in November? If I could find reasonabley-priced accomodation (everybody likes camping, right <wink>), who'd be up for the Llanwrtyd Wells Real Ale Ramble - two days of trekking over hills and being fed real ale at various points along the way?
From the web site:
The Real Ale Ramble … -
Google Talk
In case you hadn't seen, Google Talk has been released, a free multiplatform instant messaging system (akin to MSN Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM. There'd been rumours that it'd be coming for months and months: not least thanks to Google paying for several of their summer job students to help code Gaim, a free, open …
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Bryn Wanted You To See This
As you probably know, Bryn and Liz are taking a week's holiday in Ireland. Bryn just sent me an MMS with the following picture attached:
So; Bryn finds himself 'exhausted' after just a day with Liz. Least said the better. Hope his car survives the trip. -
10 Rules For Arguing Effectively
10 rules for arguing in an effective, pleasant, and productive way. Thoughts of Dan. Disagreement and comments welcome.
1. Stating your opinions without backing them up is a very effective way of communicating your feelings, but is not very productive in advancing a debate. Explain why you think what you think.
2. Don't assume that the other … -
Andy’s Gig - Logistics
Andy is putting together the logistics for the Pagan Wanderer Lu gig in Manchester this weekend, so here are the instructions for Team Aber. Please contact me if anything here seems wrong or needs clarifying!
Team Aber's PWL Plan
Team Aber currently consists of:
"Wheels" Claire "Steals" Dan Paul "The Hat" Matt "The Hat Copycat" And special … -
The Good, The Barbeque, And The Ugly
This weekend's Troma Night was brilliant: it was themed The Good, The Bad, And The Troma and we watched the original The Great Train Robber, from 1903, with Claire providing piano accompaniment, The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (of course), the "Gunmen Of The Apocolypse" episode of Red Dwarf, and Kung-Fu Hustle, which was …
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Wonder If Jon Even Remembers This
Last night Jon came onto the RockMonkey chat room at just before 5am, having just come back from a rave and full of "love and party drugs", as I'm sure he'd say. Because he asked so nicely at the time (down near the bottom), here's a transcript:
(I've emboldened some of the bits that are "lovey", … -
OpenID For WordPress
Update: 12th October 2007 - this project is to be considered abandoned. Please see How To Set Up OpenID For WordPress Comments instead. Thanks for the support and for your interest in OpenID.
THIS IS ALL HORRIBLY OUT OF DATE. THE DOWNLOAD LINKS DON'T WORK, I KNOW. GET OVER IT. More seriously now, I am … -
OpenID And Scatmania
Over the last few weeks I've playing playing with an exciting new technology known as OpenID. Do you remember Microsoft Passport and it's opposite number, Liberty Alliance? Well; we all know that these services weren't all they cracked up to be. They claimed to be "distributed log-on services", but in actual fact they were centralised …
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Bush On ‘Intelligent Design’
Bush approves of 'Intelligent Design', we hear, a theory that's gaining popularity amongst some Christian groups as a competitive scientific approach to the theory of natural selection. It specifies that while evolution has occured, it was guided by an intelligent force.
But the thing that it's fans repeatedly fail to notice is that it isn't a …