Making Sure Your Prims Belong to You
As I noted earlier, I’m going through some of the pain I dealt with in securing RPCS so would-be hackers won’t exploit the system. Of course, no system is completely secure. But I’ve done everything…
Developing a secure gaming platform in Second Life
Warning! Some geekiness ahead. One of the projects I’ve been working on heavily lately is RPCS, a roleplaying and combat system in Second Life. Not something I’ve blogged about here before, but it’s actually proved to…
Returning Home from Iraq: Interview with NPR’s All Things Considered
Veterans’ Voices: Returning Home From The Gulf War Charles Sheehan-Miles was a tank loader in the Gulf War, engaged in combat in the 24th Division. He had a hard time coming back to civilian life.…
Running Microsoft Office 2007 on your Mac using Wine / Crossover
** UPDATE: ** This ELEVEN-PLUS-YEAR-OLD blogpost continues to be one of the ones that gets the most random referrals on my website. EVERYTHING in this post is obsolete.** Okay, be prepared for some serious geekiness…
New Years Action: Giving away my book for free
I’ve never been one for New Years resolutions. Quit smoking? Yeah, right. However, a New Years action I can deal with. Here’s the plan: starting today, I’m going to be giving away the ebook version of…
Irritated this morning (or why Chris Hedges pisses me off)
About 2 days a week, I work from Cup a Joe Hillsborough in Raleigh, rather than driving all the way home after dropping my son off at school. This morning, I sat down at my…
How podcasting and free content is changing the publishing landscape
There’s a great piece in this morning’s Broward-Palm Beach New Times about J.C. Hutchins, who has been podcasting his 7th Son series over at Podiobooks.com. The most important quote: sleep is for pussies. J.C. is…
Niagara Falls Reporter: Republic review
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Hanchette (named by Gannett as one of the top ten journalists of the last decade) has just written a truly wonderful review of Republic. Here’s some excerpts. You can check out…
Missing soldier’s wife faces deportation
Specialist Alex Jimenez, along with two other soldiers, was kidnapped by al-Qaeda in May. One of his fellow soldiers was later found dead, the other is still missing. In a video posted on the internet,…
Prayer at Rumayla selected as book of the month
The Podler Book Review today selected Prayer at Rumayla as the book of the month! Thank you!