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Chance favours the prepared mind.
— Louis Pasteur,
Lecture, University of Lille (7 December 1854)

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In transition

In the spirit of December’s Carnival I’m transitioning from student to… something else. My Elder Scrolls for Savage Worlds conversion is also coming along well. Those explain why it’s been quiet here lately.

Bad spam blocker, no cookie for you!

I installed WP Captcha Free here the other day, but it appears to be a broken plugin at least with this version of WordPress. The trackback from Tommi’s post about using random encounters in his fascinating dungeoncrawl game was never recognised, and Jonathan from The Core Mechanic emailed me to say that comments were being [...]

New spam blocker

So far WP has caught all the spam comments I’ve gotten, but they’re a pain to individually moderate. I’ve installed a spam-comment blocker that does some tricks with server-side timestamp hashes and javascript, which should be invisible to real commentors while blocking bots.
Which is to say, if you have any trouble commenting, send an email [...]

Fall 2008 Wordle

Wordle.net creates images out of text. It looks a lot like a tag cloud, but it pulls from the entirety of the text you give it so it’s actually much more representational. The wordle at right is what the Seven-Sided Die looks like as of now to its parser.
I like that it says “probably indie [...]