Presentations and Writings, Linux, Gaming

During this week there's been a couple of contacts with Sydney-related matters; another interview on Worker's Radio on 88.9FM, where I discussed issues relating to Venezuela, and the provision of an academic paper derived from the presentation I gave at Sydney last month on Universal Secularism and Religious Particulars. On a related topic this week I am speaking at the Victorian Humanists this coming Thursday on Secularism, Individual Rights, and Democracy, and have finished cobbling together notes for Wk3 on Tertiary and Adult Education Policy, specifically Workplace and Adult Education.

Linux Users of Victoria had an excellent meeting on Saturday with Les giving an introduction to Emacs and especially org mode. The next main meeting will be the Annual General Meeting, where a very dramatic motion is being put - that the organisation should dis-incorporate and become a subcommittee of Linux Australia! Whilst it wouldn't mean much in the actual practise of the organisation, it would cease to be a legal entity in its own right. After that in exciting Linux news will be Software Freedom Day 2013. Whilst on-topic, happy 20th birthday Debian.

Last Thursday played a session of Fiasco, a thoroughly narrativist game which generates storylines that are like a combination of soap opera meeting action and tragi-comedy. The actual play reports give some indication of the results. Appropriately, posted a review of another similar narrativist game, In A Wicked Age, to RPG.net which should be published this week. Today, returning to the mainstream semi-simulationist-mainly-gamist creative agenda, played in a game of Fantasy Craft Middle Earth where we're on a "missing person in Mirkwood" quest.

Oh, it should be on the front-page in every country around the world, but it isn't. An Australian scientist discoverers a cure for cancer.