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Server change

Mon, 03/02/2009 - 10:36 — abatishko

I'm getting a new IP address sometime today. That likely means that the server will not be accessible until the IP address and name resolution get all synched up. So, if you get some kind of dead page trying to get to anything on this site, that's most likely why.

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Welcome back

Wed, 03/04/2009 - 13:44 — SaberSnail

Welcome back everyone. Sorry about the server down time. I forgot to post a warning ahead of time until what was likely way too late for most of you, so this all probably came as a surprise. Oh well, it's over with now. It would have been back up sooner, but I forgot to change one setting, and that delayed things by a day.

On the plus side, my server will now dump data to you at a 10 Mbit rate. That probably won't be particularly noticeable here on the blogs and forums, will should definitely be noticeable on the photo gallery. It should also help in cases where a bunch of people are on the ventrillo server at the same time. Anyway, so hopefully that'll be nice.

Part of this change was that we dropped our regular phone line (now that we're on fiber optic), and switched to cell phones. So, send me an email if you didn't get an email with the new numbers (and actually want to know my new phone number).

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book non-review

Fri, 03/13/2009 - 21:08 — SaberSnail

Since I last posted a book review, I've read three books. I've felt too busy to post lately, so I'll just list them and give a short review here. Besides, I've still got to blog about last Monday's RPG session before next Monday rolls around.

Ringworld Engineers - I'm afraid I can't much recommend this one. It was ok, but not worth keeping in my library (since I was able to get it for free).

Singularity Sky - Sci-fi by an author I've never read before. Has the feel of a first novel, but still pretty good. I'll definitely be reading more by him.

Magician: Master - Second in a series I'm doing a nostalgia re-reading of. I liked the first, and liked this one even better. Well done.

I'm not sure what's next on the list. Maybe another Gemmell book. I always enjoy those.

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GURPS Firefly: Episode 1

Sun, 03/15/2009 - 17:39 — SaberSnail

Last monday was the first game of our GURPS firefly campaign. I promised to fill you all in on the characters in the group. I also need to fill you in on the story so far before we get another session in and I find myself falling behind.

Let me start with Mia, played by MrsKheldar. I'll start with her, because MrsKheldar already filled everyone in. See the last comment in my prior post about this game in case you missed it.

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