My team at work is hiring for a 6-month contract position. This is a work-at-home, work-whatever-schedule-you-want, and (as far as I know) potentially part-time role. The job involves building an Excel-based model for market forecasting in telecommunications services.
Requirements:

• Telephony/networking/communications services background.
• ( Read more... )

Okay, this is kind of awesome: South Park of Amber

For those of you who might be interested in hearing me speak, I'm giving a free webinar tomorrow, 11 am Eastern. Pre-registration is required. Cloud Computing: Reshaping the IT Landscape
Edit: There's now an archived replay.

Thinking about doing character generation for a campaign of rob_donoghue's this past weekend, has collided with some musings I've been having about MUSH play, in order to produce a little bit of a random thought this morning, that I wanted to capture while it's still fresh in my head:
Satisfying roleplay requires mutual respect of character concepts.
In ( Read more... )

rob_donoghue, my co-conspirator on The Road to Amber (players of the MUSH will know him as Zakalwe), recently wrote an interesting four-part series on his gaming blog about the lessons he learned from the game.
10 Lessons Learned from Road to Amber
Worth a read by anyone interested in the game, RPGs, or MUSHing.

My new project, The Madness of King Brand, is an entirely different type of MUSH. It's a game of personal horror, and its engine is based loosely upon drivingblind's Don't Rest Your Head.
It begins with the premise that Brand successfully took the Jewel from ( Read more... )

I'm looking for software that does a bit more than just a basic logbook sheet. I'd like it to be either cross-platform (since I use both a Mac and a PC), or have an online component that would allow me to upload data from any of my computers.
I need it to track:

• Blood pressure
• Heart rate
• Glucometer results
• Food, preferably tied to a ( Read more... )

Via waterowl, apparently out of this list of 100, the BBC believes most people have only read 6 of them.
Copy the list, mark the ones you've read. My answers are below.
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People interested in playing my pick-up D&D4e virtual tabletop game, whether on a semi-regular basis or every once in a while, please check out the Campaign Wiki, and join the hat_campaign community. Character concept ideas ( Read more... )

1. My life is ridiculously busy, thanks to work and work travel.
2. You, my friend, are Far Away, and/or your life has been eaten by your children.
3. I nevertheless want to play D&D.
4. Solution: Pick-up game, played via virtual tabletop and voice chat.

Thus, I propose the following:

1. I will run a pick-up D&D4e campaign.
2. My friends are ( Read more... )