Archive for December, 2008

Text Messaging is a Ripoff

Monday, December 29th, 2008

The mobile phone carriers are some of the worst offenders of monopoly power. Case-in-point is the pricing of the text messaging system. A recent New York Times article explores it in some detail - but I don’t think they go quite far enough. Consider that the average per-message cost (assuming you don’t [...]

D&D Software Project

Friday, December 5th, 2008

As an ardent fan of the new 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons, I’ve been creating power cards for my players to speed up and simplify play. After discovering the exceptional Magic Set Editor cards created by several designers on the ENWorld forums - I’ve resorted almost entirely to using their designs. In [...]