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  • Artwork: Troll Physical Adept

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    Tonight I figured I’d whip out my Wacom and try drawing my new Shadowrun character. This guy is a Troll Physical Adept named Alexander “Pygmy” Cohen. Drawn and colored in Photoshop. Approximately 2.5 hours. Overall, I like the way he turned out.

  • iPhone App: pTerm

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    At long last a Terminal application is available on the iPhone, and pTerm is its name! Based on the desktop client PuTTY, you can SSH, Telnet, and raw TCP from your iPhone/iPod Touch! Its features are: xterm terminal emulation Standard 80×24 screen SSH, Telnet, or “raw” TCP connections Ctrl key support Landscape and Portrait modes…

  • TSNG 3: D&D Character Sketches

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    To help myself get into my new Dragonborn character in my friend’s 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons campaign (TSNG 3), I’ve whipped up a couple of drawings. This first one is a quick 1-hour sketch of my character clad in some scale armor and pointing at something. I did a very rough coloring job on…

  • It is Official! Knights of the Old Republic MMORPG

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    Exciting news! BioWare‘s secret MMO project has been unveiled and my hopes are being realized! Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Massively Multi-Player Online Game is slated for release in 2009, and if all goes well, this MMO will deliver where Star Wars Galaxies failed. BioWare has a track record of developing outstanding computer…

  • Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog: Act 1 Posted!

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    Joss Whedon‘s much anticipated Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog has released Act 1 today! The singing, the dialog, and the plot are all awesome. Felicia Day, Neal Patrick Harris, and Nathan Fillion did an awesome job. I can’t wait until Act 2 on Thursday! Check out Act 1 at the Official Dr. Horrible site!

  • Diablo 3 Website Launched

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    [[innerindex]]The exciting news of Diablo III was confirmed to the world this morning when Blizzard unveiled it in its week-long splash screen! Shortly after my previous post on the topic, the Diablo III website was launched too! The site, as is typical with Blizzard sites, is gorgeous…here’s some info that was gleaned. Storyline It has…

  • Diablo 3 Officially Announced!

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    Blizzard has had a splash screen that changed daily for the past 5 days, today was its final day and I was extremely surprised to see that it revealed what has long been rumored…Diablo 3! This is exciting news! The graphical announcement looks freaking awesome and I look forward to the link on the announcement…

  • Compiling Invalid Objects in PL/SQL

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    While I do a lot of and prefer PHP and JavaScript development, my daily job has a darker side…PL/SQL. At times the packages that I oversee invalidate during upgrades or poor compilations of a package that ends up having a ripple effect. Here’s a query I wrote to find the invalid objects and generate compile…

  • Quest Software: Active Directory Recovery Video

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    While frittering our lives away on the internet, my friend Dan and I stumbled upon an ad by Quest Software that featured 3 dudes in funny outfits. We had to click…and this is what we found: Dan tried to escape this Active Directory Recovery ad a few times but I made him stay…The masked guy…

  • D&D 4th Edition NPCs: Minions

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    I received my Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition books on Monday and have been reading over them throughout the week. Because of the difference in rules from versions 3.5 to 4, I plan on covering a number of topics related to some of the new features of 4th Edition. Minion NPCs happen to be the…

  • Luminis: Forcing CSS/JavaScript Updates to Clients

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    [[innerindex]] Introduction I gave a talk at SunGard Summit in Anaheim this spring on Plymouth State‘s portal (myPlymouth). There were a number of really great questions that came up following my presentation, one of which is the topic of this post: “How do you force a client’s browser to always use the correct version of…

  • Cyanide & Happiness Graces the Chalkboard at ROFLCon

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    So, as I mentioned, I’m at ROFLCon and one of the attendees whom I was excited to see was Cyanide & Happiness. After their session on Making it Big (also on the panel: Homestar Runner, Rooster Teeth, etc) – Cyanide & Happiness graced the chalk board with a wonderful piece of art: Sadly, Matt Chapman…

  • ROFLCon 2008

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    I’m at ROFLCon in Boston this weekend and there are a number of really cool guests here and speaking. Some quick names/groups: Leeroy Jenkins (Ben Shulz), Homestar Runner, xkcd, StuffWhitePeopleLike, I Can Has Cheezeburger, LOLCode, LOLCatBible, Cyanide & Happiness, and many more. The conference has been fun thus far with some great swag; loose talks;…

  • Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

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    It appears that Joss Whedon – writer god that blessed us with Serenity – decided to write a sweet new masterpiece called “Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” during the writers strike! Felicia Day is saying that it is an internet Musical. Yup. Internet. Musical. w00t! Joss writes: It’s the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero…

  • The Best Photoshop Tutorials Ever

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    My Damn Channel, an entertainment studio, has a series of Photoshop tutorials that are hilarious and…well…really good. I saw You Suck At Photoshop #8 via Digg and ended up watching them all. Really good stuff. Here’s #7: