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PhD Scholarship in MMORPG development available

July 28th, 2005 | No Comments | Posted in Uncategorized

To expand the research in the Video Game area of Information Technology, the IT University invites applications for 1 PhD scholarsip in Massively-Multiplayer Game Design and Development.

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Baby steps

July 14th, 2005 | 1 Comment | Posted in Uncategorized

For those concerned with my mental health as of late: I’m now officially one third of the way through my transcription of the video recorded for my study. It is a glacially slow process although there is a glimmer of hope that later recordings will have better sound quality. Onwards for science.

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IGN: Rockstar, Media Group on San Andreas Scandal

July 13th, 2005 | No Comments | Posted in Hot stuff

IGN: The “brew”-haha over the so-called “hot coffee” modification to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas continues, with a media watchdog group now issuing a warning to parents about the game — and developer Rockstar finally commenting on the allegedly unlockable pornographic content.

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Indecent immigration affairs

July 12th, 2005 | No Comments | Posted in Uncategorized

The Danish Immigration Service has found itself in a crossfire of disastrous allegations concerning corruption at a level practically unprecedented in Danish administration (within the set of known cases, of course). Given the present knowledge the institution is in dire legal difficulties.
The vice director admits today that she cannot give guarantees against additional problems given the current “campaign” against the Service. Let me give a peace of free communication advice. What you want to say is this: “Given that we are taking our problems extremely seriously, leaving no stone unturned I cannot guarantee that still-hidden cases will not turn up but I can guarantee that no new cases will be added to this pile because of our new procedures for avoiding such scandals”. That’s what you want to say. You do not want to blame the media. Trust me.

Adding to the oddities, the right-wing Danish People’s Party declares today that it will not protect the minister of immigration affairs if it turns out that she was aware of the situation in the service. Excuse me, the person legally responsible now has to have been aware of the situation? Such an approach to administrative responsibility is of course likely to create a veil of ignorance around all ministers so that they can rightfully claim that, no, we really were not aware of the situation.
But then again, the Danish People’s Party, never lost much sleep over immigration bureaucracy irregularities.

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Free as in free beer

July 12th, 2005 | No Comments | Posted in Uncategorized

I’m the most closed-source open source fan on the planet.
But let it be noted that NVU, the freely available multi-platform web editor has arrived in its version 1.0. Haven’t worked seriously with it, but from what I can tell it looks pretty impressive.

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