Burrowowl

In light of recent postings to older posts (especially some of the early D&D feat guides), I have done a little tweaking to the Movable Type interface to allow for a listing of all articles with new comments in the past 2 weeks. This will serve the purpose of drawing attention to older content that somebody has decided to weigh in on.

It will also ensure that I see your comments in a timely manner, as I tend to check to make sure my front page is working more often than I actually dig into the MT interface

File under “Boy is John Stupid”:

Having been a user of Windows XP Home for… the better part of a year now I am embarassed to say that I have finally gotten around to enabling Cleartext on my PC. For those of you who, like me until earlier today, had never heard of this wonderful little widget, Cleartext is the Windows XP analogue for OSX’s Quartz system.

In short, it makes text on your screen look all purty. Try it if you find yourself chained to a WinXP box.

www.browsercam.com is providing a service that I figure will someday be considered quite handy for the web-publishing masses. It is quite simple, really. They open up the URL of your choosing in a variety of platforms, using a variety of browsers using a variety of settings (such as flash/no-flash, screen resolution, etc). They take screenshots of what the URL looks like, and show them to you in a handy thumbnail-based gallery that clearly identifies what it is you’re looking at.

I came across this originally from a zeldman.com entry, but didn’t really give it a spin until my old friend Morte mentioned his use of it in regards to his weblog.

Folks like Jeffrey Zeldman I expect to have a Windows, Macintosh, and Linux box at the ready, with a variety of browsers installed so they can meticulously pour over their professional creations. The real value of a browsercam.com service comes in on the low-budget end, however. Folks like Morte and myself can do proper cross-platform checking not without investing in additional hardware.

For years I’ve always kept a copy of Netscape (or its analogue, Mozilla) handy for cross-browser checking, though I personally use Satan’s own web browser, Internet Explorer (for purely asthetic reasons). I have also added Opera to my toolbox, but this doesn’t help with with tracking down platform-specific bugs, such as Mac IE’s notorious horizontal-scroll problem. Now the kind folks at Browsercam.com have given me a means of checking such things without having to drop $1k+ on a Mac for which I’d have no other use. Thank you!

Ok, so the only reason I even saw this was because Chunkbot was showing me his livejournal… Apparently I’m low fidelity.

You are the Low-Fidelity All-Star. You were born
with your cool, and it’s totally natural. You
run the gamut from Hipster Supreme (only they
can ingest as much coffee as you) to the geeky
hipster (Mario Kart, anyone?).

What Kind of Hipster Are You?
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I picked up the Warmachine Prime book this past Wednesday, and have been greedily reading through it ever since. It’s a miniatures combat game, so it isn’t exactly my bag (I’ve tinkered with Blood Bowl and play an occasional game of Zombies from time to time, though). Being a non-Warhammer player, my views of this game are largely unhindered by comparisons with the Games Workshop money-making behemoth. The game itself isn’t why I purchased it. I got my grubby little hands on Prime just for the background info.

Background information covered in Prime that isn’t addressed in previous Privateer Press offerings includes more information on the nature of the Orgoth occupation, additional insights regarding the interaction between Menites and Morrowans in Cygnar and elsewhere, and additional information regarding the histories of the four major powers. Naturally, most of this information is of a military nature, and may never apply to your D&D game.
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