So I’ve been quiet. Hidden away in a bunker, miles underground. All I had was a laptop and broadband. 
The data packets crackled with the potential of lightning. My eyes were bleary and red as I fumbled trying to stitched the limbs on… in my final moments of exhaustion, I was transfixed with horror as it opened it’s eyes…
“It’s alive…” I shuddered before I lost my mind.
Well the truth is, I probably lost my mind long before then.
It’s about this time of year, roughly a month or two before Gaelcon when there are rumblings about the “online community”. Controversy and flame wars generally follow. See here for the beginning of those storm clouds.
But that got me thinking again. What is an “Irish online gaming and roleplaying community”? Seriously?
So the online Irish gaming community has moved, without a word, to livejournal. They even have a “community” setup.
But to be honest, I’ve already got my own homepage setup so I don’t particularly want to setup another blog just to join in. Well, luckly I found Live+Press, a little plugin for Wordpress that allows you to synch blog entires from Wordpress to LiveJournal.
I only just noticed that Wordpress 1.5.2 has been released. Took, oh, about 30 minutes to upgrade this site, that site and an other site.
Also, MediaWiki 1.4.12 was released last week. Took another 30 minutes to upgrade that site and that one of there.
’tis important to keep web software up to date otherwise you might end up getting hacked like the IrishGaming.com forums did today.
This is rather funky. If your a Wordpress user there is this nice plugin called X-Dashboard which allows you to configure the ‘dashboard’ on the Wordpress interface.
I only recently figured out how to get the Dashboard working properly on Redbrick (see the Redbrick Wiki Topic “Installing Wordpress”) so I fired up the plugin and am now able to configure what appears in it.
Whats just a little bit cooler is that you can write mini plugins for the plugin that allow you to include different feeds. So I wrote two, one for Planet Redbrick and one for Planet Irish Gaming.
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Yep, The Irish Gaming Wiki. It’s an experiment at the moment but hopefully it’ll blossom into something wonderful! 
Magic users across the Fair City of Paris have been suffering visions of a howling spirit in the burnt remains of Paris. Maxime, Head of the Order of Hermes, has asked you to find out what is going on and what it may mean. Even the Technocracy has no clue.
A very non-canon Mage story set in the French City of Paris. A City dominated by the very ancient Order of Hermes and the very new technology of the New World Order and everything else just bubbling up through the cracks.
Banshee in Paris is a Roleplaying Adventure/Scenario for White Wolf’s Mage: The AscensionTM Roleplaying Game.
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