Jan 15, 09:59 Tyhypko back in town and revving up for his party convention
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Labor Ukraine, Serhy Tyhypko's party, is to hold a convention in mid-February, Yaroslav Sukhy, one of LU heavyweights, told the Public Radio.
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The Republican candidate is on the campaign trail today with his announcement speech.
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Tycho: I just read through one of the conduits of Leipzig gaming news, and was jolted by a piece of news: Xbox Live is going to be moving into classic board games. I don't mean, like, Chutes and Ladders or some shit - though I don't doubt that GrowPot420 would snap that up on day one. No, I mean like Settlers of Catan and Carcassone. Pillars of the tabletop gaming community, so to speak. This is probably the biggest news of that convention for me. Getting people together to play these games, or finding people to play them with at all can be a trying endeavor. This is near Goddamn optimal.(CW)TB
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Blog: Party recap from the gaming convention in Santa Monica.
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Dave Dash has posted his own summary about a recent PHP-related conference that happened in Amersfoort - SymfonyCamp.   He talks about some of the presentations given, the other conference attendees, Fabien Potencier's Symfony 2.0 talk, his own talk on the Zend Search Lucene component and the "clean up" project they spent a day working on.   You can also check out Fabien's overview of the event (with more photos) for a different perspective.
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More reshuffling of deck chairs on the S.S. Yahoo!
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Tycho: There were some truly unconscionable spelling issues with the 1.0 version of that last post. I think I got them all. But I am afraid to look.(CW)TB
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Tycho:  With PAX coming up this weekend (!!!), we didn't really have time on Friday to invest in Virgil's Wikiscanner - that mystical oracle that takes a raw IP range and then excretes a list of that organization's Wikipedia edits.  This is the pulsing, possibly Martian device that dished up last week's awesome Electronic Arts edits.    I wasn't sure if we should feel sorry for them or not - now that EA is situated in the number two slot, does that make them the scrappy underdog? - but I quickly realized it probably doesn't matter.  They can come right out and say "Yes, we edit it all the time," mischaracterize the nature of the edits, and by the time it's on the second page the events in question never happened.  People don't remember anything these days that isn't on the first page of their feed aggregators. In any case, the entire affair is talking place  on Wikipedia.  Kudzu will grow over the propaganda soon enough.    Though time was indeed in short supply, we did fritter some portion of it pawing through ancient email headers, scraping for filth on old enemies.  Or enemies with whom we have resumed talks.  Or enemies who are now friends!  Even people I hope to make enemies in the future by my careless commentary must fall beneath the scanner's baleful eye.    Like a chugging trawler, we hauled up net after net of treasure onto the deck, sifting it on hands and knees.  I'd never expose it, of course - sparking a desperate arms race to find self-serving commentary is a conflict I'm likely to lose.  And with the deep catalogue of nemeses we've inspired worldwide (and even below the world, in the warrens of the pale Gambrya, where hate is eternal) it's not what I'd call a fabulous scenario.  For us, at least; no doubt, our foes have already begun their malevolent harvest.
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Great .torrent link of Joshua Kinberg being arrested.    This is of course being documented over on this MSNBC HardBlogger blog  (which btw is news in of itself).
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Tycho: This podcast covers the writing process for today's comic (and a number of other tangents). Of course, it's entirely possible you had already subscribed to the feed and are currently listening to it. In which case, I apologize profusely.   (CW)TB
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People focus on candidates' personalities and their views keep changing, AP-Yahoo poll shows ... CNN announces plans for 2 Feb. presidential debates in Ohio ... Obama races to trim Clinton's lead among Latinos as multistate primary day approaches ... Mormon leader's death renews focus on Romney's faith; candidate less reticent
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php|architect has a new posting this morning serving as a reminder to all of those wanting to go to the International PHP Conference (and MySQL ComCon Europe 2004) - time is running out to register.
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Yesterday's piece, lightly edited, on the Huffington Post. http://x98.us/jz  I think it looks pretty good over there!
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Romney says economic focus that won in Michigan can play in the South ... Obama says he'd change approach to drug war ... Huckabee backs away from hiatus on immigration ... Clinton says preparation for president should be more than inspirational speeches ... With Southern contest looming, Thompson goes on the attack ... Edwards tells Nevada to start 'sea wave of change' by supporting him ... Florida rallies for Rudy ... McCain looks to appeal to South Carolina's reservists, retired military
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Tycho:  I don't know if I would attend CES again.  If any of you have wondered, as I did last year, whether or not you should go, ask yourself this:
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Opponents criticize Huckabee for agreeing to reduce sentences for meth offenders ... McCain says he has never done favors for lobbyists, interest groups ... Clinton says candidates without international experience might be no better than Bush ... Obama looks to NH independents for support ... Giuliani heading home Thursday after hospital checkup for flu-like symptoms ... Bush offers guidance to '08 candidates, says GOP will hold the White House.
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Tycho:  Do not forget!  All the information can be found at yonder page.  As requested, the date has been bumped up to the December 15th to give people more time for their projects.    The patch delivered a day or two ago makes the final game much, much easier to recommend.   (CW)TB