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tcpipA fair bit of work this week has been preparing for courses for an introduction to the Spartan hybrid HPC/Cloud and the NeCTAR cloud starting on Monday which will run weekly. My side of the material is available on github. Apropos, I've had another encounter with odd password policies from a university which has led to another 'blog post: Password Praise in the Future Tense. Tuesday night attended a BuzzConf technology meeting; interesting technologies but the presentations were at such a high level it made it an utterly low-quality advertorial.
Have been less than happy with the state of gaming this week; Sunday's Eclipse Phase game was less exciting than I hoped it to be (although explorations of character schizophrenia were promising), Thursday's session was cancelled, and this coming Sunday's GURPS Middle Earth session has been suspended. On the other hand, my review of Open Grave has been published on rpg.net, and I've penned a small piece on Pyrrhic victories in HeroQuest.
The Victorian Secular Lobby will be holding it's Annual General Meeting this Wednesday at Parliament House; the guest speaker will be Maree Edwards, the state member for Bendigo West, who will be talking on the politics of the Bendigo mosque. Many secularists were rather slow in defending the rights of Bendigo Muslims to worship peacefully when this was a major issue earlier this year, forgetting that secularism is not antithetical to religion, but independent of it (some more fundamentalist atheists, I would suggest, are not actually secularists). Hopefully Maree's presentation will illustrate why religious bigotry has no place in secularism.
Have been less than happy with the state of gaming this week; Sunday's Eclipse Phase game was less exciting than I hoped it to be (although explorations of character schizophrenia were promising), Thursday's session was cancelled, and this coming Sunday's GURPS Middle Earth session has been suspended. On the other hand, my review of Open Grave has been published on rpg.net, and I've penned a small piece on Pyrrhic victories in HeroQuest.
The Victorian Secular Lobby will be holding it's Annual General Meeting this Wednesday at Parliament House; the guest speaker will be Maree Edwards, the state member for Bendigo West, who will be talking on the politics of the Bendigo mosque. Many secularists were rather slow in defending the rights of Bendigo Muslims to worship peacefully when this was a major issue earlier this year, forgetting that secularism is not antithetical to religion, but independent of it (some more fundamentalist atheists, I would suggest, are not actually secularists). Hopefully Maree's presentation will illustrate why religious bigotry has no place in secularism.
