[tags]diebold[/tags]

This sort of thing sounded quite amusing to me so I entered a few names of friends and family in, put it to work and promptly forgot about it. But it didn’t forget, over the past few years the Dada Engine dutifully generated plenty of entries. Google and other search engines picked them up and eventually, if you searched for the right combination of my name and other words, you would get hits on those randomly generated entries.

But of course using my real name and the names of family and friends has consequences. Anyone finding those entries could easily get the wrong impression of me, my friends and my family members. And here and there people did find them. So I’ve had the whole Dada Engine thing deactivated and it appears that the only record left is the few pages linked above. I’m sorry if I’ve confused anyone with this, that definately wasn’t my intent.

The limitations of the NucleusCMS also contributed to the lack of enthusiasm for posting. Nucleus is fine software but the featurelist and plugins haven’t kept up with what I want to do with the site, including tagging and greater flexibility with categories.

So I’ve put in a brand new WordPress installation, imported my old posts and started mucking around with it. I chose a very nice yet minimalistic theme by Becca Wei until I can get around to hacking on my own theme. Old comments are in the system but somehow didn’t get attached to the posts, I’ll see if I can’t fix that. Links are broken, another thing to fix (I did that last year too, shame on me).
So lets hope this brings renewal, refreshment and more posts, pictures and better use of this medium we call the intarweb!

• prototype.js - the grandaddy of AJAX javascript libraries.
• RICO - An open source Javascript library for creating rich internet applications. Rico originated as work done in Sabre Airline Solutions and extends on the excellent prototype.js effort from the Ruby on Rails folks.
• MochiKit - More of an overall utility library, MochiKit has some AJAXish features.
• qooxdoo - Another Javascript toolkit with some AJAX features.
• AFLAX - Ajax meets Flash!
• Cpaint - Presenting application like interfaces with AJAX
• Complex Data Types with AJAX - sometimes it isn’t as simple as the demos make it look.

and … AJAX is the short name for all the technologies that make things like Google Maps so slick, like dragging the map around to find the stuff you’re interested in.

[tags]AJAX[/tags]

Check out the full size photo at photo.net

I just found a number of additional rules that players introduced to the game.

We always played with Immunity as a negotiating tactic but I’ve found players who were amazed I would offer such a thing.

Some of the other suggestions looked amazing though … Traveling Railroads? It makes perfect sense! Combining Railroads with Utilities? Another interesting idea, while getting all four Railroads always makes a nice boost in the early game it starts to pale once hotels start popping up. And both utilities only made a difference very early on.

Playing on a double board? It sounds insane! However, with a number of people wanting to play it would be very fun to have everyone in the same game.

I’m gonna have to try some of these out next time I get a chance to play Monopoly.

from boingboing