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Archive - Nov 17, 2003

cnet.com: New Virus Disguised as PayPal E-mail

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Mon, 11/17/2003 - 2:00am

The virus e-mail looks like a PayPal security advisory. It announces that something's wrong with our account, and then tries to get you to install a program on your machine AND submit your credit card information to "verify" your accounts ok with PayPal. Very nasty. Read the full story.

internetnews.com: An End to Pop-ups? Advertisers Wince, Then Shrug

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Mon, 11/17/2003 - 2:00am

Great news, but Safari and Mozilla have been doing this for ages. Now if only Microsoft would catch a another clue and implement tabbed browsing. Read the full story.

Dealing With Anti-D20 Snobbery

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Mon, 11/17/2003 - 2:00am

I've been gaming for a hell of a long time. For the last few years ago, most of the stuff I've been doing is d20 based. There are a lot of reasons for it, the biggest being that we converted our Greyhawk campaign to D&D 3E in 2000.

It's worked well for us (none of those concerns about game
mechanics overwhelming role-playing for us). And because it has, at lot of the other games we play are also now d20 based. Fading Suns? d20. Delta Green? d20. Stagate? d20.