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Guild Wars 2 18 Sep 2012 | 11:07 am
I started playing Guild Wars 2, and am happy their questing system has broken with WoW's current quest design. As WoW grew they "simplified" and "streamlined" their questing into something that feels ...
calendar. 18 Jul 2012 | 02:26 pm
Its been a really long time since I tried to write. I keep meaning to roll my own blog software, but there's so many other things I should be doing. At the moment I'm trying to compile the meego/N9 c...
Building debian packages for mozilla's sync server 15 Jan 2012 | 10:29 pm
I'm surprised this seems to have gotten valid debian packages with a minimum of fuss for a package where I couldn't find a recommended release archive. Upstream is in mercurial at http://hg.mozilla.o...
P2P vs Centralized networks 8 Jan 2012 | 01:22 pm
I've been thinking a lot about SOPA & Related efforts to control the internet by Big Media + Federal Government. I'm pretty sure the reason the feds want they want to disrupt the ability of the netwo...
Protecting against XSS 15 Aug 2011 | 06:49 pm
I wanted a module to strip out potential XSS injections. I looked at the set of allowed HTML on the LJ post and was came up with this idea. use BeautifulSoup to parse the submitted html, remove all ...
How annoying is duplicated posts 15 Aug 2011 | 06:33 pm
Do you, reader, think its a good idea to cross post to multiple social networks and let the reader deal with duplicates? Or would it be better for the representation of ones social network be incompl...
Untitled 9 Aug 2011 | 07:50 pm
Thanks to crayon physics I'm now going to have visions of spinning crayon logs as I try to sleep. I suppose that's better than worrying about X,Y or Z.
Untitled 11 Jul 2011 | 06:49 pm
So does anyone have a good desktop client for viewing ones LJ friends page? One of the things I learned about me and social networking tools I learned from getting things done. Have as few in-boxes ...
Untitled 10 Jul 2011 | 04:29 pm
I still have trouble trusting large entities. On the other hand I feeling lonely and feel like I should at least make an effort to interact with a wide world. View Poll: Where to blog?
EVE Online 28 Apr 2010 | 05:12 am
The EVE Blog Banter Special Edition: The Ladies of New Eden Asked a question, why does EVE Online only have about 5% of its player base as women. I don't think I can answer that in general, but I've ...
