March 2008 Archives

Movable Type News A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide:

And of course there are lots of third-party plugins for the MT dashboard, to integrate statistics and information from third-party services like your number of FeedBurner subscribers.

It’s always fun when one of my plugins gets, well, plugged by the Six Apart folks.

Charles Stross (scifi author, D&D nerd, and former perl columnist) posted Politics as she is Played with 3d6:

The recent death of Gary Gygax, who together with Dave Arneson invented Dungeons and Dragons, coincides with a most interesting period in the American Presidential primary season, as three hopeful monsters slouch towards an appointment with the polls in October or November or sometime around then. (You can tell how much attention I pay to US politics.) Anyway, in an attempt to correct my woeful ignorance of the state of play, I decided to turn to AD&D as the analysis tool du jour, and consulted my battered copy of the Monster Manual in hope of shedding some light on the crypt.

The rest of the posting includes stats for the top three candidates. Go take a look!

(HT: Scalzi)