Politas' Place

Notice

This site is mostly out of date, and poorly maintained. My blog is the place to go to catch up with what's happening.

Politas' Pointers Links to interesting or useful web sites.
Paragraphs on Politas A quick potted auto-bio, in case anyone is interested. For recent stuff, go to my blog.
Pictures of Politas Photos and self-portraits of yours truly.
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Portraits by Politas Sketches and portraits of other people.
(Approximately 171KB of images)
Politas - a Pastor? Yes, I can claim the title of Reverend, if I choose. All it cost me was a few minutes of my time.
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Politas Ponders

I often find myself thinking. Sometimes I write it down. Here's someof that:
Is it sexist to wear a tie?
Musings on the GNU GPL
Time Travel
Unsolicited Commercial Email

You'll find more of these sorts of ponderings on my blog (see above)

Pester Politas

If you want to get in touch with me, here is a feedback form. Remember to click the button, my email address is also shown then.

Politas' Perennially Postponed Projects:

Dalton Forge
We are building an old-style blacksmith shop in the village of Dalton, NSW (Lots of images on this page).
Linux on Inspiron 8200
I had a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop for a while, and spent some time getting Linux configured on it. Here's the story.

GURPS HORNBLOWER

This is a very basic beginning of a world book for playing navy and army characters in Napoleonic times (around 1790-1815). It will focus on the British navy and army. To play in this setting, you will need a copy of GURPS SwashbucklerTM, since it contains the rules for ship-to-ship combat and a lot of useful nautical stuff. This is in extreme draft stage; it will be a long time before this is up to the standard one of Steve Jackson Games' official world books. It's on the back burner for now, until I get a group of people willing to play.

I've started a mailing list to discuss these rules, which has very, very little traffic. Feel free to join up if you're interested, and I'd welcome some actual discussion.


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