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matt | February 28, 2008
Confirmation of customer card data compromise leading to loss of money
The Caffeinated Penguin
musings of a crackpot hacker
At home fabrication
matt | February 27, 2008
This has interested me for some time. I mentioned it in 's blog, and he pointed me at this talk given by an MIT professor.
This is my real interest in Star Trek Replicators or Diamond Age Matter Compilers – the ability to hack physical things just as if it were software. Right now, I want [...]
Narrativist vs. simulationist..
matt | February 24, 2008
I've been thinking a lot about role playing game mechanics and such. One of the things I like about Spirit of the Century is the abstraction and narrative flow (aka “a narrativist role playing game). Now, on the flip side, one of the things I don't like about D20 games is the lack of realism [...]
Form 4473….
matt | February 24, 2008
Hollywood pisses me off
matt | February 24, 2008
So, Liz and I just watched Live Free Or Die Hard, and we're getting a little pissed about the fact that none of these so-called hackers have or know how to use guns. Liz suggested that it is the result of Hollywood writers only knowing about California hackers who are all a bunch of anti-gun [...]
TaxCut doesn't work on OSX w/ Case-sensitive file systems
matt | February 20, 2008
Recipe:
(1) Get new OSX
(2) Say “ooh! finally! Case sensitive file systems!”
(3) Get TaxCut 2007
(4) See it crash when it tries to open a file which doesn't exist….
(5) Make a symlink from the file which doesn't exist to the one which does (ln -s F2XMIT.cxml f2xmit.cxml), and it no longer crashes!!
Someone needs to update their software…
Called [...]
Conventions
matt | February 11, 2008
So, it occurred to me that I've been talking about cons on my gaming lists, but not here.
I will be attending the following cons this year. If you are going too, drop me a line and we'll meet up and have a pint.
Cold wars – March 7-9, 2008
Historicon – July 24-27, 2008
Carnage – November 7-9, [...]
Folks calling for secession of NYC… again
matt | February 10, 2008
Article
Now, the basis here is that NYC contributes $11 billion more to NY state's economy in taxes than they get back. This is both true and misleading. Yes, they do contribute that much, but there is a lot of stuff the state does for the city which the city would otherwise have to contract out [...]
Ground Zero Games releases Stargrunt II as free PDF
matt | February 10, 2008
Press release here.
For folks looking for an alternative to GW's “we have a new edition, so you need to buy $50 worth of rulebooks plus $200 worth of new minis because your old unit arrangements are no longer valid” endless cycle, these are generic rules which can work with any minis. Of course, Ground Zero [...]
Impressive paint jobs
matt | February 9, 2008
I wish I could paint this well.
