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A blog primarily for SP Happenings, with occasional guest appearances by other distractions. SPH is an ongoing journal, posted on a semi-frequent schedule. As the title suggests, its primary function is to detail what has been going on around Sorcerer's Place since the last journal entry, though sometimes other themes are discussed as well. Comments welcome!

SP Happenings #197

Posted Fri, 17th Aug '12 at 9:17pm by Taluntain (Tal's Blog)

I haven't written one of these blog entries in quite some time, so I guess it's long overdue...

Over the last few years I sadly haven't been very diligent in bringing most of the user-submitted downloads online in a timely fashion (with some exceptions), which has resulted in a large backlog of files in desperate need of processing. I'm working on remedying this situation at the moment, so barring any unforeseen events, you can expect a catch-up site content update in the next few...

Taluntain

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Founder
Resident Alpha and Omega

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The Trials & Tribulations of vBulletin

Posted Fri, 17th Aug '12 at 9:16pm by Taluntain (Tal's Blog)
Updated Fri, 17th Aug '12 at 9:38pm by Taluntain

vBulletin (the forum software we use here) has been constantly on my mind for the last 3 years. After the original company was bought by Internet Brands (IB - another company in turn owned by venture capitalists) about 5 years ago, things have started going downhill increasingly fast. Along with new ownership came the gradual exodus of practically the entire old development team & staff. Development on the then-current version of the software ground to a halt, a major price increase for the...

Taluntain

SPS Account Holder
Founder
Resident Alpha and Omega

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George R. R. Martin in Slovenia

Posted Fri, 24th Jun '11 at 12:24am by Taluntain (Tal's Blog)
Updated Fri, 24th Jun '11 at 6:57pm by Taluntain

I'm back from the book-signing I mentioned in the HBO GoT thread... dear Gawd... I was there an hour early at 5pm and there were already I'd say around 200 people in front of me in the queue. At 6pm when Martin arrived, the queue was spanning the entire length of the Konzorcij bookstore (it's a LONG one), down the stairs to the floor below, through the shop below and outside the main entrance.

When I left at around 8.15pm (yea, it took over 3 hours before I got to him), the queue's...

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Founder
Resident Alpha and Omega

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SP Happenings #196

Posted Mon, 2nd Aug '10 at 1:45am by Taluntain (Tal's Blog)

Our regular visitors will have noticed that lately (that's PC for far too bloody long) our news coverage has been less than optimal. We haven't had much luck in securing the participation of news editors who would publish the news on a regular, if not daily basis, coming to the point where we've been left with no editor in charge of the daily news. As my other commitments at this time preclude me from being able to step in as the daily news editor, I had to come up with another solution to the situation...

Taluntain

SPS Account Holder
Founder
Resident Alpha and Omega

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SP Happenings #195

Posted Sun, 25th Oct '09 at 11:24pm by Taluntain (Tal's Blog)

So, what's the plan?

A fair question, certainly. You've probably noticed that we've dropped the ball on the news front in the last few months. Sadly, even most of the news editors who haven't disappeared completely haven't posted much news. Combined with the fact that there hasn't been any real interest in volunteer news posting for many years now means that I could either pay someone to do it (only theoretically possible as we don't make nearly enough to be able to finance such an...

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SPS Account Holder
Founder
Resident Alpha and Omega

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