East Timor, Religious Freedom, Programming

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Last Sunday I conducted the service for Dr. David Scott, founder of Community Aid Abroad in Australia and author of "Last Flight out of Dili", at the Unitarian Church. It was appropriate timing of course, with the relevations of the large scale theft of Timorese children as part of the Final Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor. Read it if you have the stomach for it - and keep in mind Australia's complicity in the invasion and the militia violence.

This Sunday I'll be speaking at said location on "The Story of Francis David and King Sigusmund and the Establishment of Religious Freedom in Europe", which actually is a fascinating moment in human history, sort on the same scale as the Paris Commune in many ways. Appropriately enough after the service we'll be playtesting more of the Mimesis RPG game set in the mythic version of said environment.

Recently decided I wanted to see where the Pacal programming language was up to, so I installed Kylix (the free version of Delphi for Linux) only to discover that Borland is no longer supporting the implementation. Fortunately there is a significant community and with a bit of searching managed to get the system up and running on both my linux boxes with minimal tweaking. Have also discovered that said community has also developed their own version of a RAD GUI (Lazarus) which is doing extremely well. The Open Source community wins again.

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[lardarsegreg.livejournal.com]

Pascal, up to much ??? IMO that language should've died in computer science classes...

Btw, my Diplomacy game is going well. S01 Moves S01 Aftermath
Still waiting for F01 to happen. The deadline was a few hours ago, but England is late...

[lardarsegreg.livejournal.com]

I'll start a new thread for this so it stays readable...

Winter02 Austria retreated to Bohemia. France built A Paris and Italy built A Venice.

Spring03
Austria:
A Bohemia - Galicia
A Budapest Supports A Serbia - Rumania
F Greece - Bulgaria(sc)
A Serbia - Rumania
A Silesia - Warsaw

England:
F English Channel Convoys A London - Belgium
A London - Belgium (*Fails*)
F North Sea - Denmark (*Fails*)

France:
A Belgium Hold
F Brest - Mid-Atlantic Ocean
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Irish Sea
A Paris - Brest
A Picardy Supports A Belgium
A Spain - Gascony

Germany:
A Denmark Hold
F Helgoland Bight Supports A Denmark
F Holland - North Sea (*Fails*)
A Prussia Supports A Silesia - Warsaw
A Ruhr - Kiel

Italy:
F Aegean Sea Supports A Bulgaria - Constantinople
A Bulgaria - Constantinople
F Ionian Sea - Eastern Mediterranean
A Tyrolia - Vienna
A Venice - Tyrolia

Russia:
F Black Sea - Rumania (*Fails*)
A Galicia - Silesia
A Norway Hold
A Sevastopol Hold
F Sweden - Baltic Sea
A Warsaw Supports A Galicia - Silesia (*Dislodged*)

Turkey:
A Ankara - Constantinople (*Fails*)
A Armenia - Sevastopol (*Fails*)
F Constantinople - Bulgaria(sc) (*Dislodged*)
A Rumania Supports F Constantinople - Bulgaria(sc) (*Dislodged*)

S03 Aftermath
Fuck! I didn't expect him to do that... We can cover it, just about, but at the risk of losing Warsaw again.
We're still waiting on 3 retreats...

I'm also re-thinking my alliance with France, because he's getting strong too quickly...

Can I get out of this safely ?