1. Numbers are not good representations of skills To compare skills and tasks, we don't need numbers.

   GM: "OK, what's your 'Flybot' Skill?"
   Player Looks at Char Sheet, reads "Flybot: Basic": "Basic"
   GM: "OK, you strap in and look for and find the 'Autolaunch' button."

2. Dice are unnecessary Dice give players the illusion of impartial arbitrariness. Paranoia does not require impartiality of arbitariness, and if it does, has Friend Computer for that.
3. The New Service model is a good thing. It leads to better internecine quarrelling.

1. Added Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist A content-based mt-spam prophylactic.
2. Added Stephen Rhia's Avoid Duplicate Comments hack to MT-Blacklist. No more comment dups! Woo
3. Added Stephen Rhia's Avoid Duplicate Trackbacks hack to MT-Blacklist. No more trackback dups! Woo
4. Added Brenna Koch's MTCommentsLeaders plugin
5. Added David Raynes' MTOtherBlog plugin
6. Added Adam Kalsey's SimpleComments plugin. This threads comments and trackbacks
7. Added Adam Kalsey's MTWordCount plugin
8. Added David Raynes' MTRandomEntries plugin
9. Modified MTWordCount to provide new word count properties.
10. Added MT-Timer to allow me to diagnose slowness in rebuilds.
11. Used MySQL Fu to eliminate existing duplicate comments.
12. removed all MT Includes from my templates to speed up rebuilds.
13. Wrote a little JavaScript to display an Edit Entry link to the author only:
    

    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
    <!--
    var MyAuthor = '<$MTEntryAuthor$>';
    var ThisUser = getCookie("mtcmtauth");
    
    if ((MyAuthor.indexOf(ThisUser) != -1) && ThisUser != '')
    {
    document.write(' <a href="<$MTCGIPath$>mt.cgi?__mode
    =view&_type=entry&id=<$MTEntryID$>&blog_id=<
    $MTBlogID$>">(Edit)</a>');
    };
    //-->
    </script>

14. Added Phil Ringdala's Trackback Rebuild Hack

• Rebuild my page without tables
• Write a script to close comments after 'x' days. Try to make it flexible about categories and blogs and durations
• Write a script to automatically dump the database and compress and archive the dumps.
• Figure out photo rotator for Pete, especially if it can be done dynamically.

I'm so glad I didn't name my site something-pundit. That's soooo 2001...
An Anonymous Blogger

But the Blogosphere must have standards it if expects to be taken seriously.

Messages and articles should be brief and to the point. Don't wander off-topic, don't ramble and don't send mail or post messages solely to point out other people's errors in typing or spelling. These, more than any other behavior, mark you as an immature beginner.RFC 1855, Page 7

1. Damage to one blog does not affect the others
2. Search can be configured for each blog
3. Old permalinks are dead (sorry...)

• The Internet is proving too big for business to swollow
• Nobody (except MMORPGs) is making mo

In the blogs the pundits squall and squall Bleating at Chomsky and Ted Rall

Seeing that Yaysoft indexes 26000 blogs put me in mind of something. Yaysoft is clearly a way to expand one's readership among other bloggers, which makes me wonder how much of blogging, below the luminary level, is bloggers writing purely for each other. That's exactly the situation in my other longtime niche activity, contemporary poetry. Except for a handful of celebrity academics, even an established poet's audience comprises other poets and indulgent non-poet friends. The practical differences: There probably aren't 26,000 poets, though there are likely between 10 and 20K; and distribution problems make it impossible for any given poet to put his work before the entire potential readership. The startling conclusion: Blogging is better than poetry!