Work news, Gaming and Heresy, East Timor coup, Weird Sex

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Over the past few days work has been intense on lots of different levels. For starters, I have established a partnership with Create My Website where I pitch PHP/SQL web development to them and I help them with compliance standards. Then there's been a days serious research on a common sysadmin problem with a seriously workable application idea that could make life a lot easier for a lot of people. Three people - programmers - are seriously interested and a meeting today confirmed the technical and financial plausibility. I've also learned how very cool Ghost 8.0 Professional Edition is, especially compared to Ghost 9.0 and Ghost 2003 and how annoying IBM Think Pad notebooks can be. My classic IT glitch of the week was locking myself out of Samba after setting up an internal webserver for PHP scripting and setting up webserver level security settings.

Finished my review of Hero Wars. Some great ideas, some terrible execution. Next will be a review of Gary Gygax's Lejendary Adventures game which I picked up on special (one of the books is even signed by the great Gygax himself). I've also put up the initial call-for-players for a new campaign an Outbreak of Heresy, and completed a Scene 9, part B description for the Ten Thousand Islands play-by-email.

Most pleasant events of the week included dinner with Frans and Anitra with surpise dining guests Gin and Nina from East Timor, and severina_242 engaging on a massive repair job on my unmanageable hair. Speaking of East Timor, the Catholic Church has just forced the government to introduce compulsory religious education, and make abortions and voluntary prostitution criminal offenses. Well, freedom there didn't last there very long, did it?

Same as it ever was.Sexual hypocrisy and serious weirdness among the conservative right.

Comments

[elzia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, over here in ETAN/US we were really unsure as to waht to do about the response to the new laws, and also taking into account what we know about recent protest laws as well (like in Dili), and the protests in favor that seemed to come with the new catholic laws. We put out some sort of letter encouraging public debate but criticizing the new school laws specifically. grrr. well, that might be confusing, it was all second hand info from a conference call, but my point is, yeah, religious laws=not good.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

A person who has spent years engaging in East Timorese advocacy, learnt their language (albeit poorly), spent time there as a volunteer etc., I am really annoyed.

The unfortunate thing about countries that aren't used to democracy and human rights is that they are still prone to use power-based mechanisms.

I guess the main point is, that we always campaigned for an independent East Timor on the basis that it was about democracy and human rights. If that is no longer the case....

but...

[octobrianaoz.livejournal.com]

I heard that while they would include a compulsory curriculum for religious education, attendance is optional. But I heard that on HACK, so it may not be accurate.

Re: but...

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

I heard that while they would include a compulsory curriculum for religious education, attendance is optional.

Hmmm... That's not clear by the OCR pdf, but I can see how that fits in...

I'd like to see them include a cirriculum on Tetum animism! Heh, that would through the cat among the pigeons...