Rich’s Collection of Geekery

I did some Internet news reading recently and stumbled upon a series of articles and columns about the game Second Life. I thought, “another graphical MMORPG / ‘Sims’ clone that’s getting hype.” Well, in some ways I still think so, though this Wired column about copyright issues in the game caught my interest.
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Silly me… the answer was right in front of me but I was mucking with the registry settings when I didn’t have to. Now maybe I can try to figure out why gaim doesn’t properly operate through our proxy, but SIM-IM client does (and hopefully “fix” it).

This week I started at a volunteer “power lunch” program called “Everybody Wins!“. It’s pretty simple — spend one lunch break each week at a grade school to read with a 1st or 2nd grade student. What’s cool is the kids really like it and look forward to it, so there’s not much challenge at […]