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Seeing as Necronomicon is not running this year another group decided to run their con at Easter, Eyecon. From their FAQ they intend to run it each year. Will it be the new Easter convention in Sydney?

I went and signed up to see how their registration process works, and to see if there was anything worth registering to play.

It was interesting to note that their site tracked how many places in games were available each session, and displayed them to people registering. And that while a couple of game were full, many were very empty.

Hopefully they will get more people turning up tomorrow morning to fill out some of the games. But is begs the question…

Has the Sydney RPG convention scene died and some people just don’t want to accept it? With what seems to be a change from all the Sydney cons being run by one set of past BNGs to another, are they just moving the deck chairs on the Titanic?

(See below for game spaces available at the time I checked tonight, the night before the con.)
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The latest Iron Web Master specs are up. The round 5 theme is fitness. And the sites are due up Thursday 20 March at 3pm PST (-800 GMT?).

But what can I use as a parody theme this time?

I had thought of doing Exercise, but that is too close to the last one. Maybe ‘Get on your bike’? Thought I can’t think of any other bike jokes.

So, I’m suffering from a little writer’s block. Anybody got any good ideas that I can borrow?

The sun setting over Enmore Park

My latest offering for the Iron Web Master competition if Go To Hell.

The theme for round 4 of the competition is Travel, where should you go, how to get there and what to take. So I though why not advocate travel to a destination most people wouldn’t necessarily want to go. And the double meaning is fun

You can rate my entry here. There are a couple of more hours to do that.

The humour in this site is a little more blatant as people voting for the previous sites didn’t seem to get the joke.

Walking to Marrickville Metro just after 8pm last night, Monday 3 March 2008, and all the street lights went out. Houses too. Well most of them as, interestingly, the odd house’s lights stayed on. Must have been on a different grid?

For around 45 minutes between 8 and 9 pm there was a blackout in parts of Enmore and Marrickville. I later found out from the local 7 Eleven that it affected their store in Petersham too.

So, not a small thing, but looking at online new papers and none of them seem to have picked it up as a story. Must not be very interesting. And the Energy Australia site is quite useless if you want to find out about blackouts or other faults.

Or, maybe it was just my imagination? It never actually happened?

I think Woolworths Marrickville Metro would have something to say about that. With main power out Woolworths was surviving on generators designed to power it for 20 minutes. Only important things had power, the registers and half the lights.

As you can see from the picture below, they were manually closing all the doors as they tried to speed all the customers through the checkouts and close the store.

It is disappointing that, while the blackout in the inner west last July got a reasonable amount of coverage, this one has received none at all (that I can find).