John Griogair Bell - Arlecchino Malbenvolio

Ah, there’s a serious problem with PerlMUD. I can freeze everyone if I do something that waits for any length of time. So, when I update my blog, the entire system pauses. This is not a good thing.

Oh, and BTW: Happy Halloween!

Well, so I can now do journal entries via my MUD, of which this is one.

Not completely unexpected, but a shocker in how abrupt and unannounced it arrived, I was laid off yesterday afternoon.

Working for a non-profit, making an open source library automation tool, I vaguely thought that I was insulated from the tech slowdown, economic downturn. However, I was not.

Certainly, I can continue to work on it, assuming I can continue to eat. It’s a good project in several senses of the term, and there’s definitely some big people interested in it. However, that interest isn’t going to help until January at the earliest.

I can survive a couple months. Good thing we opted out of the Christmas list thing this year. That was a little prescient.

Current Mood: disappointed

A long time ago, I was in an unpublished role playing game that allowed for time travel. A discussion developed about where people would go if they could travel in time. Some people predictably said they would travel to the time when Christ was alive, someone tried to be at least slightly inventive and said they’d travel to the battle of Troy.

My answer? Above all the places I’d travel … to the Library of Alexandria, before it was burned. The stuff they might have had there boggles the mind.

Looks like I’ll might get my chance to go … if it survives Fundamentalism … and fires.

Current Music: DJ Lenny Ray – All Out Trance Vol. 1 DI Version (D I G I T A L L Y – I M P O R T E D – European Trance, Techno, Hi-NRG… we can’t define it!)

One place I’ve found a great deal of very interesting information is in The origins of freemasonry: Scotland’s century 1590 – 1710 by David Stevenson.

It tells a good bit about the development of a trade guild into a speculative lodge system.

Current Music: Various Artists – World Party / Ship Of Fools / World Party