After five years on the waiting list I finally have had the opportunity to attend instructor training for Software Carpentry, with the downside was that the training sessions were being held remotely in the U.S. - so for two days in a row day started at 2am in the morning and I would make it through as far as I could during the rest of the day. As ( Read more... )

With an hour to go before being collected by shuttle to Dunedin airport and then en route to Wellington and Melbourne, it is opportune to review the past few days which have been dominated by the subject title. On the sightseeing side of the journey I took the opportunity to visit the Dunedin Chinese Garden which, despite several prior trips here, ( Read more... )

The start of the year has been pretty productive just a couple of weeks in. I've had a flurry of activity over the past few days, making extremely good progress on the Papers & Paychecks supplement, Cow-Orkers in the Scary Devil Monastery. I was especially happy with my decision to make western dragons basement-dwelling advocates of the gold ( Read more... )

Papers & Paychecks has been printed and some copies have already been circulated. I know have 14 boxes of books in my loungeroom. PDFs have been sent to all those who backed the Kickstarter, and a copy of the game is available on drivethrurpg.com for a mere $10. Work on the Cow-Orkers supplement has kicked up a notch as result with work on The ( Read more... )

Papers & Paychecks has been printed! Now just to collect it and distriute to the people. Currently arranging for the PDF versions to be sent out to all and sundry. Also have released RPG Review 35-36, a double issue on Antipodean gaming. My own contributions (apart from editing) includes reviews of Hunter Planet, Lace & Steel, Albedo, EPOCH, and ( Read more... )

Much of the past several days has been working on the final touches and printing edits required for Papers & Paychecks. The printers weren't getting my emails for whatever reason - but everything's been sorted following a 'phone call and new thread of emails. So hooray, after all these months the thing is finally off to print. And for that matter, ( Read more... )

Much of this week has been spent finishing the last several thousand words to Papers & Paychecks with a plan to send to printers next week, although I can't seem to contact Tim Kask, whom I would like to write the foreword (which I discovered many months ago, he wanted to do). It has also been a week of multiple gaming sessions with a new RuneQuest ( Read more... )

As per the previous post, on Saturday gave a presentation to Linux Users of Victoria on An Overview of SSH. Most SSH-users, like myself, are probably used to using SSH as a tool. Once you start digging deeper you discover a whole new world of various fascinating tricks, some of which I explored. I think it went pretty well although it was somewhat ( Read more... )

Gaming sessions have returned back to normal with the return of Andrew D., from his Malaysia and UK holiday. Sunday was the regular session of Eclipse Phase. As is often the case, the first session sets the scene and this time it included the hatching of an Iktomi egg and contact by The Factors in Uranus. Wednesday was a session of Laundry Files ( Read more... )

After having added another six thousand words this week, I have released a very rough draft of Papers & Paychecks, and posted an update for the project. The book is now 18 days overdue, and whilst I know that Kickstarters do have an almost assumed lateness in them, my inner project manager is screaming at me about being on-time. Still, I have ( Read more... )