I was attending a Nordic larp conference Knudepunkt for three times already. Usually, the most jaw-dropping effect for me had various pervasive game projects, urban games and stuff like that (Momentum, Marika…). Being a technology freak myself, I always thought of doing something in this area. Being a megalomaniac as well, my ideas usually ended on unreachable budgets :) But things have changed… Maybe, maybe there will be a game. Not soon. Large stuff doesn’t happen fast. Look forward, folks.
As a part of my job at Red Hat, I started and am leading a project, which would make writing and executing system on Red Hat’s testing harness easier, quicker, and less error-prone. Red Hat’s testing system is an opensource project, called Beaker, and is hosted on Fedora Project.
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Oh my fucking god… Usually you see this phrase abbreviated as well-known OMFG, but today, it’s worth the effort to write it in full strength. That phrase is the only thing I’m able to think about when I look at the results of the Czech regional elections. Sociallists from CSSD (Czech Social-Democratic Party), have achieved a terrifying victory, gaining about 35% of all votes. ODS (Civic Democratic Party) was second with circa 23% of votes. That means that all 13 regions will be led by a sociallist, which is a huge change from the last term, where 12 of 13 regions were led by ODS and one by Christian Democrat.
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For long evenings when I’ve nothing much to do, I do play Puzzle Pirates, a multiplayer game based on various puzzles. It’s fun. Today I discovered the pirate widget, which I personally like. Here it is…
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In my job, I’m quite heavily working on the systemtap project. It is basically a Linux response to Solaris killer app DTrace, and aims to provide scriptable intrumentation tool for running Linux system. When it is ready, it should provide the user to trace execution, insert probes, and even modify the innards of the kernel, and to userspace applications. I would like to give a short post here to introduce it, because to lot of Linux power-users, the tool is still unknown.
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As some may know, I’m currently writing a larp running tool for people who run larps. It’s primary focus is on organizing teams who run several events each year and want to have an online collaboration and communication tool for this. Current goal, as first, is to provide a capability for player registration to events, followed with feedback capabilities. So basically db shuffling, questionnares and similar. More capabilities will probably come, with whatever people will want to have there. I can imagine some larp modelling tools, data vaults and things like that.
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For proceedings of Odraz conference, I’ve written a brief paper about how technology can be used in larp. It’s in Czech, but I hope I will find time to translate it to English, and after that I’ll place it here.
This year, I decided to try writing a paper for Student EEICT conference, just for fun. I’ve taken a partial result from what I do in my Bc. thesis project (basically, I try to create an automated tool for testing compiler, which would be based on fuzz testing method), and wrote a paper about it. The title was “Construction of a Random Sentence Generator Usable For Compiler Testing“.
In the end, I was awarded first place in my category, “Bc. projects - Information and Intelligent Systems“, which is quite nice I think. I won some prizes, of course. But what made me really happy was the sole success, not the prizes.
The paper (in Czech) is located on EEICT webpage. I’m planning to translate it to English. After I’m done, I’ll place it here.
This weekend (11.-13. 4. 2008) there was first attempt to stage a real conference about larp topic. I was a member of the organizing team (I was responsible for info email, electronic participant management, and technical matters on-site). We were heavily influenced by the Nordic tradition of Knudpunkt conferences, and so we tried to start a tradition of such type. This was probably accomplished - the event was from my point of view a partial success, and hosts of next year event are also already known.
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Midnight Nation is a graphic novel written by Joseph Michail Straczynski. (It was published in Czech Republic as ‘Krajina Pulnočních Stínů‘) Personally, I think it is one of really great stories, the ones that has something to say to the reader. I don’t intend to write a review here, or a plot synopsis, that work has already been done.
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