March, 2009

  1. Whiny F*ing Republicans

    A couple weeks ago I pointed to a Capitalism Magazine piece pointing out that all of the things that Republicans hate about the Obama administration are largely mere continuations of the Bush administration’s overreach. Gene Healy, a vice-president at the Cato Institute, makes much the same point in Right helped prepare the way for Obama’s…

  2. RPTools

    RPTools is a set of five open source programs written in Java designed to assist with managing roleplaying games. They include MapTool – An online, multiuser, networked, graphical, interactive, programmable virtual tabletop TokenTool – Create quick and simple consistently sized tokens for use with any digital battlemat that can use PNG images. CharacterTool – A…

  3. WordPress Plugin: Custom More Link

    I mentioned the WordPress More tag for long entries earlier today, and digging around the WordPress site I came across the Custom More Link plugin that lets the user change the text, customize the markup, etc. of the More tag output without having to edit templates.

  4. ScribbleLive

    This weekend I found myself at a conference that I wanted to liveblog, but of course when I arrived there that morning was the first time I actually bothered to wonder how exactly I’d accomplish that. Fortunately, a quick Google search of live blogging tools turned up ScribbleLive. ScribbleLive made liveblogging ridiculously easy. I didn’t…

  5. WordPress More Tag

    WordPress documentation is all over the press, so it took me awhile to actually locate this. In general, I display the full text of every post on the front page of my blog. The liveblogging I did of a conference this past weekend, however, led to huge posts (4-5K words) being displayed in full on…