Spam, Fraud, and other Security Issues

  • Spoof Emails -- Oh no! My checking account will be suspended unless I "CLICK HERE NOW!!". Hm, I thought all my auctions had ended, but here's an email from eBay saying someone's asking me a question about one of my i Continued.
  • Email addresses being sold -- Spitzer claims Gratis wrongly shared as many as 7 million "user records," creating the largest deliberate breach of a privacy policy discovered by U.S. law enforcement. He said the company's promises Continued.

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Website Design and Development

  • Using php to write javascript (OpenCube) -- So, I'm creating a self-updatable version of the OpenCube vscroll that we've licensed to put on client sites. Just a simple database with user add/edit/delete, but it puts me in the position of having Continued.

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History and Archeology

  • James E. Quibell -- researched by Anthony Pileri and Crystal Odenkirk Webmistress note: This page is an ongoing, ever-growing biographical sketch of one of archaeology's forgotten greats. Additions and corrections are Continued.
  • Solon the Politician -- Webmistress note: This paper is intended only as food for thought. It was written for a class in 1997, and was certainly researched thoroughly, but not exhaustively. I welcome comments or debate on Continued.

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Fiction

  • If You Live Long Enough -- Chapter 1: You'll Be the Death of Me "Florence!" She comes to with a start, looking abashedly up over her shoulder at the Director as he towers over her chair. "Sir?" She asks uncertainly. Hi Continued.
  • Do Zombies Dream of Sleep? -- I just can’t do this anymore.How many times do you have to say that to yourself before you pay attention to it anyway? The place makes you sick, the work bores you to tears and the stress is going to Continued.
  • Only the Wind -- Screaming between buildings, the wind whips forgotten newspapers and out-of-date playbills down the length of the empty street. One by one, lights wink on overhead, lamp posts casting a watery dimness Continued.
  • Miscellany -- Herein you will find snippets of writing or poetry that I liked that were cut for one reason or another from something I was writing, or stream of consciousness pieces. A friend found my little collec Continued.

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Roleplaying Games

  • Obsidian Quickstart Legalese -- Disclaimer: This is a game. This is only a game. In the event that this document was an actual handbook of eeeeevil and damnation, the daemon you just summoned would already have eaten your soul. Have Continued.
  • I've got this friend... Influence Use and Abuse in MET -- "Do me a favor, would ya?" A lock of lank, dirty-brown hair falls forward into the face of the street-tough wannabe who leans against a faded brick wall as he looks down at the holes in his sho Continued.
  • Kult of Stupidity -- Obsidian is a game created by Apophis Consortium. This is a satirical new Kult for use with the game. Daemon in Control: Considering the Damned Fools' overbearing presence in corporate culture, rum Continued.
  • Two-Gun Mojo -- Webmistress note: Written for larp houserules, but then made the rounds of the web. The original rules are on pg 207 of Laws of the Night, Revised. Two-Gun Mojo. The section of the book dealing wit Continued.
  • Everything I need to know I learned from gaming -- The life of your character is in your hands, for you to decide what your character does and says. For the purposes of the game, you are your character. You decide what risks to accept or decline. Ev Continued.

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Reviews

  • Heralds of the Storm -- Book One of the Year of the Scarab Trilogy Written by Andrew Bates, White Wolf Publishing (WW10020), 2001, 285 pgs, $6.50USReviewed by Crystal Odenkirk What would you do if you woke up one day an Continued.

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Music and Lyrics

  • Flames Rising -- () = second voice, fainter but still distinct (like the voice of the inner self)120 BPM (or 96BPM, I haven't decided which I like better)industrial/trance w/organ and cello or viola undertones and hea Continued.
  • Can You See Me? -- I can see you I can hear you But you're... Do you know how Do you know how to speak Can you see me Can you see me being weak If I say I can't see you Will you let me sleep? If I say I can Continued.

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How Not To Run A Business

  • Counterculture Recruiting -- As Whole Earth Catalog creator Stewart Brand wrote in his essay "We Owe It All to the Hippies," "The counterculture's scorn for centralized authority provided the philosophical foundations of not only Continued.
  • Generation Gaps -- This article has it all wrong: http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/16/news/economy/grayceiling_qa.fortune/index.htm GenXers don't switch jobs out of an over-developed sense of "entitlement". An over-develo Continued.
  • People who don't know any html ... -- ... should not be expected to maintain a website. 1) Would you take your car to a shoemaker for a tune up? No. The shoemaker may be very skilled and highly intelligent, but their skills are in making Continued.

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Rants, Raves, Musing & Strong Opinions

  • Morning --I am sitting under a tree. The ground is soft and green, the kind of green hillock you only find in east Ohio. It's a color I think of as not just _a_ green but THE Green, a color so brilliant and vibrant and cool and warm at the same time that all other greens can only be considered pale imitations. I can feel the bark of the Oak I am leaning against through my shirt, smell the damp soil and the rain in the air. (Opens in new window).
  • Financial Implosion... --Otherwise known as the "Economic Boom". (Opens in new window).
  • Time --Seems like no one ever has as much of it as they want, right? When we have no money to throw, we spend our time instead, as though it were somehow less important. But it isn't. It's one of those things that we can never make back. Money comes and goes but time just goes. (Opens in new window).
  • Leaping Headlong -- Welcome to the first episode of Leaping Headlong, my vain attempt to make mistakes so you don't have to. Being the first of the series, most of you are probably reading this after being interested by Continued.

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