gaim is a fine chat client for your IM needs. It handles Jabber, and all your other protocols. The way you want a client to do it. It also looks smart, with GTK+.
Author Archives: Olle Jonsson
James Ellroy Interview
I currently read James Ellroy, and he delivers in interviews: “Parenthetically, it’s very odd that on the past few trips to Britain, I’m continually questioned about Quentin Tarantino, who I think is a fatuous child. I think Reservoir Dogs is garbage and the forty minutes of Pulp Fiction that I saw is most excruciatingly naive …
Google Search: define:
When looking for a definition of a term, I stumbled on Google’s define: function, here used with RPG as search term: Google Search: define:rpg. Kind of neat.
Malmö: Computer game development and marriage stories
Me and the SO went to Malmö this weekend. Lovely. Met my GM Tomas in Malmö, and he told me about his new project: to become a game developer. “I used to want to become a game programmer, now I am becoming one.” So, I decided to get deeper into the question, first by looking …
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Web design critique: again
I got an email from the unemployment office asking me to fill out a survey about their website. This I did. The usual boring questions about usability, just for me to rate 1-5 which was good or bad. Did you notice the errors there? Uneven numbers give you the possibility to rate at the mid-most …
Call of Cthulhu Rules Booklet: free download
Now, I could tell you how cool it was in Rome. Or, how much work I’m doing right now. But, I have no time for that, now is the time to report about Chaosium publishing a free rules booklet as a PDF download. Their idea is to convert the masses into buying products from the …
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OpenCourseWare
MIT delivers free knowledge in the form of their OpenCourseWare portal. a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT’s mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT’s values of excellence, innovation, and leadership. MIT OCW: …
EFF pushing BBC into CC’ing their content
Electronic Frontier Foundation Supports BBC’s “Creative Archive” – a press release telling us about the push from EFF to influence the UK government to Creative Commons the whole back-catalogue of the BBC. Imagine that. Cut’n paste. Mix’n match. Re-use. Remix. (Oh, that all sounded very mid-90s. I’ll stop now.) The prospect seems rather bright, though. …
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Google sets, again
I am so impressed with Google sets, where I searched for these terms. I typed in the titles of a few big RPG products, and I was a amazed at the set Google Sets could produce. Very nice. Might be handy for idea-zapping with yourself.
Free Danish university tool
This here is a report on a piece of Danish software called Scribo which is learning tool for those who are writing academia for the first time. It is only compatible with Win95/98.