Recently, I’ve become much more involved in IRC, which is really nice. This is mainly because Robert kindly gave me a shell on one of (!) his VPSes, so I now have my Irssi customized to my liking and running in a screen session. Also, I used the nice availability of a shell to get Mutt running with GPG. It is a really nice email client! It’s fast, has more features than I could possibly use and looks cool.
Google Chrome was released recently. It has made me feel like this. Firefox feels more natural, but Chrome is so pretty and feature filled =(. Hopefully, there will be extensions made for Firefox which will give it so many of the nice features that Chrome has.
Recently, I was introduced to a game called Exalted by Kvetch. It is an P&P RPG like DnD, but better in several ways (IMHO). First, stunting. You actually gain mechanical bonuses by describing your actions well, with the highest level of stunt being so cool it actually gets you experience! (We got one of those in our game today, when we flash-banged a building before combat dropping into it in a C&C Generals-esque style). Despite the flash-banging, most weapons are still swords, so it is at about that tech level. Apart from the flame throwers. Also, it has really good social combat rules, well, actually, that’s Fixalted. Exalted rules are awful. However, I also think that the whole setting is more cool (I play a ninja with razor blades concealed in my gloves).
Now that Sean has his new blog running, I am slightly jealous of how nice his website is. So expect many changes to this one.
