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November 2006 Portal Update

Dira
Not worth mentioning, but a couple of small edits took place on the Dira site. Dira covers the events of the Hesberian Empire and the dawn of magic. Lenga occurs 500 years after the birth of magic.

Lenga
New link. Basically, it is a Lenga-English dictionary. I’ve put in five terms, I have about 400 defined.

Sycarion
I made quite a few posts on Gold Rush Games forums. I copied them over to Sycarion. This was done mainly for copyright reasons – items on Sycarion are Creative Commons. Stuff on the forums is not really anything.

Lenga, the game, has come along. As mentioned in the posts, I have one example of a spell, the game mechanics of magic have been roughly worked out and more.

My Family
My wife has posted a poem and we have included small ‘mini-galleries’ of our son. Pretty cool for me as it took a long time to get the gallery to work.

Computer Biz
More technical stuff for the computer project mentioned here. Absolute Linux has its fourth release and I am still working on spit-and-polish for the powers that are. The big post for me was getting a graphical log in that was smaller than KDM or GDM. Entrance is smaller and it has the eye candy that you’d expect from Enlightenment.

Things are bogged down at the moment because there are things that don’t “just work”. One is burning CDs. On the other hand, Absolute is the only Linux that has correctly configured by flat-panel monitor at home higher than 800×600.

Study Hall
I began uploading an exposition of Galatians, but they do not appear on the site at the moment. I hope to have this fixed this weekend.

pinakidion.*
This month started with a look at a future challenge of the church, helping registered sex offenders find housing. Most of the month, I was not feeling well, so many of the posts were General goofy things.

Coming for a Visit was a look at Bruce Williams pitching the UP at a non-signing church. I also talked a bit about the local Senate election.

Of course, I took great delight in counting my blessings in the Thanksgiving post. Thanks to everyone for the warm thoughts, especially when it is 8 outside right now.

Last and not least, the month ended with The Baptism Post. Get your comments in now, they automatically shut off in ten days. If you want to continue the discussion after that, you can post on the forums (discuss.pinakidion.org) or become an author and post here. I’m fine either way.

Wrap-Up

That’s all the news that is fit to print. Busy in some ways, not busy in others. My family is coming to visit this month, so I expect more photos. I also have no goals for December because of the visits.

See you around and Merry Christmas.