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Okay, well since LoudTwitter appears to have given up the ghost, this blog really is now closed, so I'm going to post a new and final entry. I now have a new blog, and I'm twittering. So this is the situation. IF YOU ARE A LIVEJOURNAL USERTo read my blog you should add ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) jonnynexusfeed to your friends page. I will check out the comments on the LJ feed, so feel free to comment there using your LJ account rather than on the blog proper. If you want to read my tweets, then follow me on http://twitter.com/jonnynexus. IF YOU ARE A NON-LIVEJOURNAL USERIt's basically similar to the above: Blog: http://jonnynexus.com/blog/ (RSS feed at http://jonnynexus.com/feed/). Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonnynexusHope that all makes sense. Look forward to seeing you over at the new blog. Jonny
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Hi all, As I explained a little while ago, I've stopped doing this Live Journal, and have started doing a new blog on my new website. That's the only blog I will be doing from now. For example, I've just poured forth of torrent of rage against my hosts, UK2, taking down my website for four days and branding me guilty of "abuse" because of what turned out to be a mistake: http://jonnynexus.com/2009/06/03/uk2-spammers-and-the-mysterious-disappearance-of-my-website/I've also recently restarted Twittering, and since I forgot to turn off LoudTwitter, the tweets have been coming out here. I was going to stop them, but since people have been commentating on them and presumably therefore enjoying them, I figure I might as well leave them being published here. So this is the situation. IF YOU ARE A LIVEJOURNAL USERTo read my blog you should add jonnynexusfeed to your friends page. I will check out the comments on the LJ feed, so feel free to comment there using your LJ account rather than on the blog proper. If you want to read my tweets as I do them, then follow me on http://twitter.com/jonnynexus. Alternatively, if you'd like to read a daily digest of my tweets, then simply stay subscribed to this, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jonnynexus. (Obviously, if you don't want to read this daily digest, then simply add the new blog to your friends list and remove this one). I'll also monitor this "twitter digest blog" for comments (actually, it will inform me when you comment) so again, feel free to do so using your LJ account. IF YOU ARE A NON-LIVEJOURNAL USERIt's basically similar to the above: Blog: http://jonnynexus.com/blog/ (RSS feed at http://jonnynexus.com/feed/). Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonnynexusDaily Twitter Digest: http://jonnynexus.livejournal.com/ (RSS feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/PlanetJonny) Hope that all makes sense. Look forward to seeing you over at the new blog. Jonny
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Hi all, Just a quick post to say that I will no longer be posting to this blog. I'm currently in the process of creating a proper jonnynexus.com author's website, and as part of that, I'm switching over to a new blog, which will be better integrated with that site, both in content and in look-and-feel. I've already got it up and running, albeit looking a bit rough, and you can see it at: http://www.jonnynexus.com/blog/I've also created a LiveJournal feed for it, so you can add the new blog to your friends list by just going here: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/jonnynexusfeed/...and clicking on " Add this feed to your friends list for news aggregation". I'll probably post a few further reminders on here, but there won't be any actual proper posts, and if can add the new blog to your friends page or RSS reader I'd be very grateful. Jonny
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...I'd have tried to fix it a lot sooner. One of the nuisances left over from my New Year hosting transfer nightmare was that I ended up with an IMAP account that didn't quite work properly. I could send mail on it, but sent messages weren't saved, and after thirty seconds or so into typing an email it would pop up a message box complaining that it couldn't save the draft message. The latter was mildly annoying; the former incredibly so when I forgot to CC it to myself and was left with no records of important emails I'd sent. (I was also unable to delete messages on my iPhone, but I think that's a separate, though possibly related, problem). Anyhow, I'd been putting off trying to fix it, because frankly I couldn't face it, but tonight, after typing out a few emails, I thought I'd have a go - and I found the answer, here: http://jolane.net/blog/?p=17Took about twenty seconds, and now it's fixed. I'm rather chuffed. Tags: imap
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...didn't actually happen, because TAFKAC couldn't make it. But we decided to do some catching up and boardgame stuff anyway. General Tangent had found some very, very old Call of Cthulhu characters that we'd apparently once created for a campaign he was planning on running, but never did. The sheet that was apparently mine was a printout from a character generator program, and contained the following details only: my name, an age (24), a bunch of skills, a print date in the year 2000, and a character name. Father Liam O'Connell. That was it. No notes, no character history, no nothing. I'm a session amnesiac at the best of times, but when we're talking about a session that occurred nine years ago, we're talking about something that might as well have happened to someone else. I had zero recollection of the character I was looking at, and still don't. I think my exact line at the time was: "I have absolutely no recollection whatsoever what my character concept for this was, but I must have had one. No-one creates a priest PC unless they've got some kind of angle, right?" After that, we played a game of the rather excellent Mississippi Queen. This is a fun and pretty fast game in which you race Mississippi steamboats down the Mississippi, stopping to pick up two passengers along the way. What I find notable about it is that it has just enough randomness in it. Movement isn't random. There's no dice to roll, and it's entirely up to you how much you accelerate, decelerate and turn your boat, and how much coal you want to burn to do so. Instead, the randomness comes from two sources. Firstly, as each end tile is reached, a new (random and unseen) tile is drawn from the facedown stack of river tiles. (Each tile is different, and has a different layout of islands and sandbanks). Secondly, a dice is then rolled to see if the river is going to turn to the left, or the right, or go straight on. And of course, you never know what the other players are going to do - and they can ruin your strategy by bumping you out of the way.  In the example here, you can see that we now have four tiles down, including the starting tile, and that the river had curved to the right each time. It's often a mistake to take the lead in this game, as you're the one that finds out which way the river is going to twist and turn, allowing the guys behind you to conserve their coal, pick up their passengers early, and then make a fast run for the finish, knowing the best route to take. In this case, I accelerated quite hard and got my cream boat out in front early on, which did have me worried. But after skipping past a few passengers that were too awkward to pick up (you have to slow right down), the curve of the river broke favourably for me, and I was able to come in a few hexes, and one turn, ahead of John.  We then played a couple of games of TransAmerica. This is a very fast and fun rail game, so fast and fun that it only takes about 20-30 minutes to play a complete game, each of which consists of at least three rounds/mini-games. I can't remember who won the first game, but John won a crushing victory in the second game (including a crushing victory in the last round where he finished connecting his set of cities while I still had seven points of connections still to build, with General Tangent - who was already behind at the start of the round - in a similar situation). They're definitely both games that I'd highly recommend. Tags: mississippi queen, transamerica
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