More contracts, Red Friday, Gaming Update, More Conferences, Labor for Refugees, Book Review

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As expected I landed the contract to do server migration (Red Hat Linux and Apache) and general sysadmin tasks for DataLink. Work for InMatrix continues. This weeks adventure will be building a Windows 2003 server with IIS 6.0 for an intranet. New to both these products, have nearly finished reading the O'Reilly book for Windows Server 2003 and they say good things about it. Also this week I've done anothe Red Friday (about time!) which includes an introduction to C++ programmming and will eventually become a "programming for games" tutorial series. It also includes an article on retro gaming for luciousmalfroy.

Whilst on topic, completed the first episode of Outbreak of Heresy after four sessions. The good guys (the party) won of course. I'd thought I'd done well having by putting them up against a insane natural philosopher keeping their near-dead wife alive for years and a child-murdering psychopath who thought he was a werewolf. The reality comes along and gives me this (via monkeygirldiva; Romanian nun dies in excorcism ritual. In other gaming news after all those years I've finally picked up a copy (imported from the UK no less) of Cults of Prax and Cults of Terror. Brilliant stuff.

Have been invited to speak at the Beyond Federation conference with Senator Lyn Allison of the Democrats.Interested to discover that the Labor for Refugees protest received some international coverage over its recent rally in The Epoch Times, Haoyah and Dajiyuan. Noted Laurie Ferguson's recent sacking from the front bench with recognition that we probably played our part in his downfall.

The Melbourne Unitarians are having two consecutive speakers on industrial relations reform, the first Darrell Cochrane of the Australian Services Union did a pretty good job at giving a summary of the major changes afoot and next week is a report from a New Zealand unionist on how they coped with changes up there. If you work for a living it's probably worth reading these.

In other news, finished my review of Traci Harding's Gene of Isis for valeskah1. It really wasn't that good.

Comments

[casca-2u.livejournal.com]

Well, since I am working on a Victorian fiction piece, I had better take note of what you found wanting in the novel you're reviewing!

But apart from that, have you heard about a speculative fiction conference that is coming up in melbourne which neil gaiman is a guest speaker?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Continuum? Yes, I'm still in two minds about whether to attend. Cons have gone up in price since I was a regular attendee, but that shouldn't surprise me really,

Writing in a style appropriate to a time does require some careful work. Really one needs to have a text next to them to constantly keep in mind the language and style of the time.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

So, when are you going to stand for Parliament?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

When the Socialist Left exec taps me on the shoulder and tells me that I am.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I thought, when you got a tap on the shoulder from the Labor Party, you were more likely to fund yourself buried under the MGC.

Or, worse, Leader of the Opposition :)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Depends who in the Labor Party is "tapping you".

Leader of the Opposition would be a good job, if the party was prepared to get a bit of fire in the belly.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.
Labour is making it so easy to hate it right now.

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Oh, I agree entirely. They're not doing a good job and as one lib commentator pointed out (Costello), it's because they don't know what they believe in.

The Greens are looking quite attractive these days. Although they still have a fairly nascent political philosophy.

[aceris.livejournal.com]

The book or your review ;)

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The book, although someone is quite entitled to do a review of the review ;-)