Mad Virus
Posted by Peter | Filed under Games
Here’s another fun little puzzle game I found today:
http://mad-virus.freeonlinegames.com/
As the name suggets, it’s about a virus. You start off as a single little hexagonal ‘cell’, and you have to infect the neighbouring cells by changing colour to match them. It’s pretty simple in concept, but gets challenging quite quickly (or it did for me anyway… maybe I just don’t played enough games like this!).
SloodleMoot08
Posted by Peter | Filed under Second Life, Sloodle
Well the first official SloodleMoot is nearly over. It was a 24 hour virtual conference in the virtual world, Second Life, centring primarily around the Sloodle project (as you might guess!). A few hours of dancing left, perhaps… but I think that’s the sessions all done. I was running 2 presentations, with 2 renditions of each. One of each via voice, and one of each via text.
My presentations were:
- Moodle-SL Interactions - looking at the ways in which Moodle and Second Life interact to form the Sloodle module
- Server-Side Programming - how does Sloodle affect the Moodle database, and how do you use the new Sloodle API?
All in all, I thought it was very successful. I got up to a dozen people at each of my sessions, and I thoroughly enjoyed doing them. To take full advantage of the 3d world, I prepared 3-dimensional diagrams to illustrate what I was doing. One diagram was a complex interconnection of blocks, showing which objects in Second Life communicate with which scripts in Moodle. Another showed the Moodle database tables which are added/affected by the Sloodle module, and the last one was a 3d UML class diagram of the Sloodle API.
I got some great feedback, and everybody seemed to appreciate the material and my diagrams. I hope it has also deciphered some of the Sloodle mysteries for many of the mystefied non-techies out there! 
I might go back and join the dancing for a wee while now. Night night.
Scottish Christians website
Posted by Peter | Filed under Links
Here’s a link for all Scottish Christians out there… a site specially for us! There’s a forum to get involved with, so come along and join in! 
http://www.scottish-christians.co.uk/
Electricman2HS
Posted by Peter | Filed under Games
http://electricman-2-hs.freeonlinegames.com/
This is a really fun little fighting game I just found. It’s quite simple (pretty much just sparkly stick figures brawling), but it has that entertaining edge to the gameplay that makes it great. Very worth a shot!
Walking on (frozen) water
Posted by Peter | Filed under Links
Being a fan of comedy, I love this recent cartoon from ReverendFun.com. I’ll wait while you click the link below and take a look:
http://www.reverendfun.com/index.php?language=en&date=20080104
*waits*
Back already? OK…
I leave you to enjoy the humorous side of it. On a more serious note though, it does raise an interesting point about how we view our faith, and how ‘easy’ or otherwise it is to believe (remembering that “all things are possible to him who believes”, Mark 9:23 [NKJV]). For example, my church is getting into supporting persecuted Christians lately, and it makes me think how easy it is to have ‘faith’ when things are nice and simple, but how different that becomes when the heat is on.
To use an old illustration, we are often rather like chocolate teapots — we’re fine when we’re chilled out, but things get very sticky when the heat is on!
In other words, walking on water is easy when it’s frozen, but faith is never faith unless we need to use it.
