Wow... Been a While.
Sorry I haven't posted recently, it's been really busy lately. We've been patching our terminals up to the latest greatest version, but it turned out to be a bit of an issue. See the software manufacturer (muggle internet link, though I wouldn't expect any mention considering the nature of the agreements between them and the ministry of magic,) made a slight mistake in the incantation, so instead of getting the latest version of the terminal software with all of the trimmings (like the new automatic persona selection tool) we instead spent quite a bit of time chasing the terminals down. The cause for this, it seems, was that the programmer had chosen to make the default persona a bohemian professor. Not that this suprises me seeing as the terminal software had been written by Google, but this ment that most of the terminals had convinced most of the students that they should go and see the world and that they should take the terminal with them (since the terminal wanted to see the world too.) Problem with this is that ment that our terminals ended up in all sorts of places. The African savanna, the jungles of Brazil, we even found one in a small temple in nepal.
I would have posted about things as I wandered about trying to reclaim the terminals, but being the silly fool I am, I managed to let one of them convince me into believing it was actually a good idea. So when I woke up on the dusty floor of a rural indian hut with an oblisk making all kinds of noise jabbering about the things we had yet to do (yes, the terminals are obsidian obslisks,) I realized that maybe there was something wrong. Since that was about twenty minutes ago, I really haven't had a chance to do anything here, (since the terminal informed me early on that contact with the external world would make it impossible for me to engage in "Cultural Acceptance" and would leave me bound to my pre-existing prejiduices.)
Anyway, it's good to be home, and hopefully, I'll post again soon. Oh, and while I was out they managed to repatch the terminals (except for mine) to default to a more "neutral" personality (a very computer like one soas to avoid such problems in the future.) Though I would note that there is definately a lot more cultural "color" in the school now. Oh, you'll notice I changed the comment system from my own proprietary one to the cool new one provided by Blogger. (Yet another great Google product in my life. Hope this one doesn't convince me into a healthy diet and regular exercise.)
I would have posted about things as I wandered about trying to reclaim the terminals, but being the silly fool I am, I managed to let one of them convince me into believing it was actually a good idea. So when I woke up on the dusty floor of a rural indian hut with an oblisk making all kinds of noise jabbering about the things we had yet to do (yes, the terminals are obsidian obslisks,) I realized that maybe there was something wrong. Since that was about twenty minutes ago, I really haven't had a chance to do anything here, (since the terminal informed me early on that contact with the external world would make it impossible for me to engage in "Cultural Acceptance" and would leave me bound to my pre-existing prejiduices.)
Anyway, it's good to be home, and hopefully, I'll post again soon. Oh, and while I was out they managed to repatch the terminals (except for mine) to default to a more "neutral" personality (a very computer like one soas to avoid such problems in the future.) Though I would note that there is definately a lot more cultural "color" in the school now. Oh, you'll notice I changed the comment system from my own proprietary one to the cool new one provided by Blogger. (Yet another great Google product in my life. Hope this one doesn't convince me into a healthy diet and regular exercise.)
OOC:
I figured I'd stay with the Harry Potter theme of 'whimsical and almost cataclysmic scale to even the smallest problems' and have a minor technology related mishap that tries to turn people inside out. I also got a chance to make a suppositious tie between a major company and "the non-muggles", and abuse my link tools again, just because I thought the idea would be interesting. And besides, what do you think the odds are that the big companies A) wouldn't find out, and B) try and get their grubby hands into things? ;P
I figured I'd stay with the Harry Potter theme of 'whimsical and almost cataclysmic scale to even the smallest problems' and have a minor technology related mishap that tries to turn people inside out. I also got a chance to make a suppositious tie between a major company and "the non-muggles", and abuse my link tools again, just because I thought the idea would be interesting. And besides, what do you think the odds are that the big companies A) wouldn't find out, and B) try and get their grubby hands into things? ;P
