2011-11-09
The Reality of Change
Its easy for people to make recommendations, I do that everyday. These days i realized and appreciate the problems business faces in making changes. From…
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2011-10-26
The Massive Skill tree of IT preparation
This is what I kinda been doing for a while. Step 1: Go to Packt Publishing (they specialize in IT, feel free to go to…
2011-10-23
Trixbox; VirtualBox
Technically I’m still working, when I fiddle with the Trixbox. I would, personally, extend my work to even this blog because the method I learn…
2011-10-12
IT Skill Sets: System and Network Admin
I figured something out on my own, which every IT person already knows. I guess I can chuck that to experience. Basically its the structure of Systems…
2011-10-10
Short Hiatus
Hope to start posting more relevant material by November. This month of October is a critical period at work and I have to focus. Although,…
2011-10-10
What this Blog is For…
Making Work a Game or workingthegame.blogspot.com is my blog for safe for disclosure work blog. I won’t talk about work directly, although you will get…
2011-09-29
Public Domain and Copyright “Thicket”
Quick Review, a copyright lasts for the Life of the Creator + 50 years, which was extended by the Sunny bono copyright extension act to…
2011-09-29
[Threads of Note] Man Without Disadvantages
The baseline Character in GURPS opens up a can of worms as it can be interpreted as a psychopath. This moral or psychological discussion is…
2011-09-27
[Interesting discussion at the forums] GURPSify yourself Thread
I think any attempt at creating yourself in GURPS winds up becoming a battle between ego and self-loathing that is not pretty to watchOriginally Posted…
2011-09-27
Started an RPG shared material folder with Google Docs
Just started to open up a folder in my Google Docs for sharing. I have to find the time to look for and dump worthwhile…
2011-09-27
The GURPS skill of Leadership, and thoughts about Roleplaying Leadership in Gaming.
As promised my thoughts on leadership… if you would care to hear them. Leadership Definition (read at your peril). Disclaimer. Leadership is pretty complicated, and everyone…
2011-09-26
Google Maps of Ancient Rome
Thanks to Douglas Cole in the sjforums, where I found it. I should be able to trace and run the Reconquest of Italy by Belisarius…
2011-09-26
GURPS Skills Administration and Leadership
If you look at the GURPS description of Administration and Leadership, it is the description that barely scratches the surface of the concepts they represent…
2011-09-26
Critiques are for Blog Posts, not for forums
I realize the best forum for game system critiques are not in the forums. The product is already made and done, there is no going…
2011-09-24
GT:ISW spreadsheet update: formats
Spreadsheets have a problem with formatting. The way it looks in my LibreOffice set up, may not be how it will look like when someone else…
2011-09-23
Gaming, A Constructive Hobby
Work has stopped me from doing my usual projects, and I miss doing them. Although I can play Urban Terror or lose my self in…
2011-09-18
GURPS: Teaching-12
You have 2 professionals who are both highly skilled. They can command a wage of Php100,000 a month. Both are very hard working, and will…
2011-09-12
My Excuses. Why my ISW spreadsheet is delayed
My Excuses. Why my ISW spreadsheet is delayedI feel guilty of not finishing my ISW spreadsheet around this week. I do have a lot of…
2011-09-12
A more open game system. The problem of automation.
A more open system. There are many game systems and toolkits I can automate with just a spreadsheet, of course it doesn’t mean I should…
2011-09-09
Synergy: A world economic relationship generation matrix and a game programer
My friend is what they call a “hybrid” a network and a programmer. He’s self taught in graphics programming and a strong open source advocate. Tools we have…
2011-09-03
[World Building] Getting ADD with too many options
So I learned a bunch of new and useful skills when it comes to spreadsheets, now more seems possible and I’m getting more distracted because…
2011-09-01
Learning More Spreadsheet Functions
Spreadsheets are a wonderful GM’s tool. Its weird that only late in life that I have begun trying to learn all I can about it.…
2011-08-31
Modern Economics appreciation by Gaming.
In a GURPS discussion about jobs, I just realized some interesting parallels about Modern and Ancient Economics. One interesting parallel is how Government Hoarding of…
2011-08-29
ISW missile breakdown and other missiles
this is my calculations as I broke down the missile stats in ISW. I assumed a certain proportion (as seen in the length vs diameter).…
2011-08-29
Eric’s Dominion: GURPSLand
I wish I saw this before. An awesome web resource for gurps. So much stuff and plus he made the GURPS Spaceships spreadsheet. Eric’s Dominion:…
2011-08-28
with better understanding comes higher standards…
I had to redo my ship generation spreadsheet. The back-room calculations and the tables had to be cleaned up a bit. Cleaning up a spreadsheet…
2011-08-22
On a Roll, but Real Life has come up.
Thanks to Dan, DC, and Ken. I’m on a roll right now, if not for real life obligations and duties. I’m prettying up the Spreadshseet…
2011-08-18
Stuck, looking for Spreadsheet functions
I’m stuck. I’ve been working on a ship building spreadsheet for ISW traveller. Using it as an exercise to learn spreadsheets. how to reference several…
2011-08-15
Open source Ecology: Sustainable Communities
I invite the Sci-fi geeks who like to imagine how the future might look like check out Open Source Ecology. It follows the premise I…
2011-08-10
A simpler exercise: Interstellar Wars Ship Creation Spreadsheet using Forms Control
I started making Traveller: Interstellar Wars Ship Creation Spreadsheet. Its doing well so far. The reason I moved to this project instead of the character…