Month: May 2005
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Saviors of Kamigawa Prerelease
This weekend was the prerelease for Saviors of Kamigawa. As always it took place at the Magic Center, now under new ownership. I judged Saturday. It was a fairly uneventful tournament with 125 players. We were three judges plus scorekeeper, which was just enough. Personally, I would have preferred one more judge on the team. The best…
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Playing with GStreamer
I played around with GStreamer today to do what I wanted to do for a long time: encode the music from a music video DVD I bought as Ogg so that I can play it with my regular music player (Rhythmbox) as well as at home (my computer at home doesn’t have a DVD drive – can…
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Article about Judging Published
Finally my article about judges and judging got published over at Star City Games. Yay! Update: URL corrected …
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Switching to Subversion?
There is talk on gnome-hackers to switch from CVS to Subversion as version control system. Some people instead suggested to switch to another, fundamentally different versioning system like arch or monotone. While I’m very much in favor of switching to Subversion, I am very against switching to a more radically different versioning system at this point for several reasons: A switch to Subversion is…
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Blog Archive
I have moved older articles from my blog into the archive. A link to the archive is at the end of the main blog page.
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PTQ London
Yesterday we had a PTQ for London in Berlin. Two days before the event Huy, the scheduled head judge called me and asked whether I could do the HJ, since he had to leave early. Of course I happily accepted. We had 68 players, which was a low turnout. Kamigawa seems to bore people. Personally…