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Today's verse

Psalm 31:23-24 (11-23-09)

Love the LORD, all his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.

— Psalm 31:23-24 (NIV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

Love the LORD! Be strong because of your hope in the LORD. In other words, recognize where your strength is. Acknowledge your source of grace. Give praise to God for his abundant mercy and power lavished on us through his Holy Spirit. The LORD God does preserve his people. He does honor faithfulness even if it is mocked in this world. The LORD will bless his people and deal justly with those who mock and abuse them.

My Prayer...

Give me strength, O LORD, for I find myself in trying times with enemies at my door and opponents on every side. Please give me wisdom to see your grace that leads me. Please give me courage to stand up for what is right, pure, and holy. Please give me vision to see the things you want to use me to do for your glory. Please keep my hope passionately alive as I wait for your work in me to be accomplished. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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Stewart Barnes commented on John Sutherland's blog post 'Shurely Shome Mishtake?'
Tawkin' o infrastructures....Marx (no' Hapo) apparently believed that all creativity was created in moments of sheer boredom.
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Peter Murdoch replied to John Sutherland's discussion 'Computer Haiku'
Heh, this makes me want to update the error pages on my web server. Oh no, five hundred Internal Server Error Try again shortly Four hundred and three You are not welcome in here This is verboten. A one and two naught, Continue to send request,...
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wizards beaten; trolls avoided; health up; weaponry strong; armour light; week 8 was good!
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John Sutherland commented on John Sutherland's blog post 'Shurely Shome Mishtake?'
I keep going back to the old DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation - inventors of the minicomputer ) saying, that their software didn't have 'bugs', only 'features'. Our bug is we only teach 3 days a week, 24 weeks a year. Our feature seems to be tha...
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Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. The Web site you seek Cannot be located, yet Countless more exist. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. Windows Vista crashed. I am the Bl...
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BSc CGDev graduating class of 2012
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Game Design Module
For chat and info re the Computer Games Design module as delivered at Paisley campus
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neonflashpanzies.wikispaces.com The tesh doc are the pages with TDD in the page names
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Kalakian commented on John Sutherland's blog post 'Shurely Shome Mishtake?'
I agree that to see your ideas coming to fruition you do need to put in a lot of hard work. It is quite possible to get good ideas while you are having a break from this hard work, or doing virtually anything ... you DON'T need to be hard at work ...
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Team: BeepBoop Tech Doc: http://beepboopgaming.wikispaces.com/Tech_Doc
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http://thoughtbotz.wikispaces.com/TechDesignDocument Thoughtbotz Tech Document, you love it. ;o
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http://showmeyourmoves.wikispaces.com/Technical+Design+Document - Tech Document for Team Show Me Your Moves
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Jim Scullion commented on John Sutherland's blog post 'Shurely Shome Mishtake?'
I don't think that creativity per se can be taught. I do firmly believe in 99% perspiration 1% inspiration. Great ideas don't come about while you're gazing into space or contemplating your navel. In my experience (and I have LOTS of experience) i...
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At 8:29pm on November 15, 2009, Durandal said…
John, gave you some feedback on your feedback to Cogs design doc. (on the wiki link you supplied for the feedback)
At 9:13pm on November 13, 2009, Mana said…
Yep I'm organising the Scottish leg of the game jam at gcal. We hosted the Jam earlier this year and it proved to be an extremely successful event. This year we're anticipating a greater turnout.

This years sponsors include Realtime Worlds and we're also hoping to get a couple of other sponsors on board.

If you could tell your students about the jam that would be great, registration is on a first come first serve basis

www.scottishgamejam.org
At 9:50pm on November 11, 2009, Stevo aka Dr Katata Fish said…
Got your WosGamers private message John. Thanks for the update, is there a time i could talk to you about the new version of Ragnarok's Design doc im a bit stuck on what that i could improve in it and your probs the best person to ask,

As you are the Uni's 'Professor Oak' of the Games Industry xD lol to the pokemon joke

Stevo
At 1:45pm on November 5, 2009, Stewart Barnes said…
Sir,

I'm here for the glory!

Ultimately; a guid creative job wi' loads o' cash an' wimmen!

Aw the best and cheers for the add.

Stewart
At 12:35pm on November 5, 2009, Fiona Littleton said…
I work in Higher and Community education as a digital game based learning lecturer on the MSc in E-learning. Hamish Macleod is a colleague and alerted me to this site.

am I *really* the first lady here? the first lady of WoS gamers! Ilike it!

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Shurely Shome Mishtake?

I've been talking to too many students recently. Or is it too many staff. Or too many developers. Anyhoo, I've run into an ontological impasse along the lines of: what are we doing here?

This isn't, I hope, a mid-life crisis (a bit late that for me!), but an educator stopping to think, to take some time to stand and stare. And ask: is a university the right place to learn games programming? If it isn't, then that's just tough, cos there aint any other option. And if it isn't, then why… Continue

Posted on November 13, 2009 at 9:32pm — 10 Comments

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pre-termism

Next week is lumbering ever closer and threatens to engulf us as usual. Lectures, courseworks, hardware, software, coke machines, paninis, pizzas, crisps (that's enough food!) etc. and another year of cutting code, creating imagery and dreaming of being the next Miyamoto-san.

In one of these infinite numbers of parallel universes there is a UWS where the timetables are entirely correct, registration takes 10 minutes, student card photos are to die for, there is working software on the computers… Continue

Posted on September 26, 2009 at 8:36am —

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New Year coming ...

Summer has been a cumin in, and has now past. A new year heading up and birthday No52 at some stage, unless Jesus returns, the earth burns into flames or my late great aunt Betty in Vancouver leaves me her 1981 $1 Microsoft shares ...

What's the year gonna be like? We have got 40 new top-spec great graphics cards PCs for E113. As someone said: I don't believe it! We also have a bid in for revamping E106 as a studio space kinda like a cross between QWERTYs and the room upstairs from it.

Having… Continue

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