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The TL;DR: First two days sucked, second two days made up for it. Will be there next year assuming I snag a table.
Thursday: I was finishing up my packing at the last minute, and of course forgot something – mostly a few copies of Absinthe. While I was packing, the second set of proofs for the Rita book showed up, with the gloss properly dealt with. It will look good, and I need to send some email to the printer saying "yes go ahead gimme books". Got down to the airport Hilton, checked in, went to the dealer's room and set up.
I was way in the back. I got absolutely no sales during the few hours the room was open on Thursday. I didn't let this worry me much. Went out to dinner with Sigil and some of her friends, tried to hit the dance for a bit but it was really not to my taste, so I went to beeeed. Sigil had given me a totally sweet badge, so I grabbed her sketchbook to draw some stuff in.
Friday: I blew off breakfast, which proved to be a mistake. I got one sketchbook commission early in the morning (thank you KT!), and generally didn't really see much of anyone passing by my table. There was a total of three decks and three prints sold that day. Sitting there with nothing to occupy my mind except putting on the Friendly Artist face for the few people who did stop to flip through the prints and the Tarot decks and buy nothing was not easy, and kind of worrying – I don't normally have a TON of business on the first day of a con, but I've usually got 4-5 sketchbooks happening! And it's a real shame, as the two books I'd drawn in (KT's NSFW, and Sigil's (1 NSFW, 2 NSFW)) were showing me to definitely be in fine form for the rarely-used medium of pen and ink. Here I was ready to draw the hell out of some crazy stuff and no takers.
I did the Illustrator panel in the afternoon, which was well-recieved, despite me being kind of out of it from forgetting to eat and stressing over this lack of business.
By the end of it I was starting to fall apart; if things went like this it would be the absolute worst I've ever done at a con. When the dealer's room shut down I was on the edge of collapsing into tears. Thanks to everyone who tried to console me on Twitter and LJ that afternoon.
My roomies (Matt/Turbine Divinity, Amara/oCeLoT, and Josh) arrived, so I got them their keys and we put their stuff in the room along with stuff I wasn't leaving behind the table.
Then I went out for pizza with Pathia, Tanya, Farore, Ix, and like four other people who I forget because I am a spaz and they were on the other end of the table. And the instant the first bite of cheese and brown sugar garlic bread hit my tongue, I realized that I had not eaten a damn thing and MAYBE THIS WAS WHY MY MOOD WAS SO SHITTY.
I drew some stuff NSFW while we waited for our table, of course. Also here is a picture of Farore enjoying her novelty jello shot served in a syringe and of my pizza.
After food I tried hitting the dance but it still really wasn't doing it for me. So I just went to sleep early.
Saturday: It was not without trepidation that I went down to the dealer's room. This time I got some breakfast first. I'd been told it was open early for patrons and sponsors to browse, but after Friday I really couldn't be bothered with EXTRA SPECIAL sitting lonely behind my table versus breakfast. Even if it was overpriced mediocre hotel breakfast. When I got to the table there was a huge box waiting for me – back at FC2012, Astolpho had organized an off-site gallery show, and the stuff I'd hung in it had finally gotten back to me.
Business was a lot better. I sold a decent amount of decks and prints, and got a bout a half dozen sketchbooks: a dragon priestess NSFW, a cow/goat saint, Rita shopping for taur chassis in Shaterri's taur book, and a few more books that I didn't get to until the next day. I was in a really good mood when I took off for the webcomics Q&A panel I was on with Dana and Kevin, which was a blast – thanks for organizing and moderating it, Lamar! There was a lot of joking banter between the three panelists. And at one point I was an ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE PERSON; either Dana or Kevin was going into some detail on something related more to strip work than to graphic novel work, so I was just idly doodling. I drew this little box, put a blank face on it, then drew a tube neck… then attached it to a little reptillian body with its tail up. Then I regressed to age 5 and drew a turd coming out of its butt, and just let out this hideous SNORK of repressed laughter. Sadly – or possibly for the best – the panel was NOT arranged such that I could show this horrible but funny-looking thing to the audience.
IT STILL MAKES ME SNICKER HORRIBLY WHEN I LOOK AT IT. Partially in remembering the embarassment of this moment of course.
Also there was a really awesome doodle of KT in his super-studly sunglasses – normally he's this big affable-looking dude, but he found some sunglasses that are like a +9 bonus to Bad Assery for him.
I will scan or photograph these doodles sometime later, probably just post them to twitter.
I hung out afterwards with Ant; we'd been meaning to get together for quite some time and finally managed it at the con. He's a pretty cool dude who's kind of on the periphery of the fandom due to most of his artistic energies going to contract work like "Magic cards" and "concept art for games that died before being finished" – really never had much TIME to draw for himself. We ended up going out to dinner with Erin and a bunch of people she knows who I don't. I was a bit sad when some people talked about how they'd closed down for sketchbooks on FRIDAY and were scrambling to get them all done before the end of the con. Though I was less sad when I saw their locations the next day: right in the front of the room. I am totally gonna ask for front-row placement next year.
I tried hitting the dance. There was finally some music happening that made my booty want to move, but my body betrayed me – I haven't been exercising as much as I had been around FC, so I wasn't able to dance for hours without feeling it. This needs to be remedied. I think I only managed to do maybe a half hour of dancing? Not enough. I ended up hanging out in my room talking with my roomies, Ant, and some other folks. Gossip, comparing notes on being burnt out on games/animation/etc industries, and whatnot.
Sunday: I blew off breakfast. I knew this was bad this time but at least I was AWARE of it as a Bad Thing, and this time when the Official Floating Minion came around, I ordered a ham sandwich instead of a cinnamon bun. (This was a new thing for RF; there was a staff member who was making the rounds of the dealer's room each day around lunch, and going to the convention center's concession stand, or out to 7-11, to BUY FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY DEALERS WHO DID NOT HAVE MINIONS OR TABLEMATES. Much appreciated.) I worked on my table commissions from the day before: a piece by my crazy pornmonger identity VERY NSFW, and a super-graphic tiger bust, for which I pulled out the iPad for photo ref, then went all Roger Dean on it. There's a few more that I'll be finishing in the next few days – one I had to put off because I forgot to bring a Prismacolor to fill in the many solid blacks, one that got as far as the rough pose and will serve as an excuse to go hang with its commissioner, and one that I took near the end of Sunday.
That last one came from Jason, who dropped by to chat about some stuff – he wanted to tell me how the "randomness in creativity" panel he did at Foolscap went. This was done largely by pulling a card from my Tarot deck and explaining how it related to the topic at hand. Which made him want to use it to do a reading for ME; I told him I wanted a reading about APE, which is coming up week after next. I've got a hotel room, a flight, a table I haven't gotten around to paying for, and a CA business license I haven't gotten; those last two were tempting me to blow it off, especially after the stress of this con. He's been doing a kind of 'pull layouts from thin air' thing, and this is what he came up with:
I SWEAR THE DECK WAS NOT STACKED. And all of those labels were assigned BEFORE the cards were flipped up; having the SELF-PORTRAIT FOOL in the "Artist" position is… Man this deck is scary sometimes. Summation of the reading: "you are disappointed in RF, I have no idea what you are going to do next week, going to APE will be scary but it could work out REALLY REALLY WELL and change who you're hob-nobbing with."
After putting dealer stuff away, I hooked up with Dana, Orv, Ribnose, KT, and some other folks. We hung out in the secondary lobby for a while, then went to Dana and Orv's place to get away from the madding crowd and order some pizza. Which was late but hey we had a good time.
In the middle of the wait for pizza I got a bunch of texts – my roomie's keys had stopped working! I'd originally planned to check out on Sunday, but Sunday morning they'd told me they'd planned on leaving Monday, so I had it extended. Sadly the key system was not informed of this, so I had to drop out of the conversation to call the hotel and say HEY CAN YOU GIVE MY ROOMIES NEW KEYS THIS IS WHO THEY ARE.
After food, we hung out for a while longer, then went back to the con. I went on down to the Dead Dog party. I don't know where the energy came from, but I was able to dance for several hours – from something like 10pm to 2 or 3am. I am pleased to have once again participated in DANCING THE CON INTO THE GROUND. The music was good – all glitchy and bassy and Fucked Up in the way that gets my booty moving – and there was the usual air of "last chance at decadence". I rubbed up against more than a few sexy young things of either gender, putting my burlesque training to good use.
Then it was time for sleeeeeeeeep.
Monday: We packed up and exited the room. The big box of framed stuff from the FC offsite show changed my plans; I was originally going to hop on the bus, but two suitcases, a computer bag, and a huge awkward box I had to carry with both hands just wasn't going to be doable. So Matt was kind enough to drive me and my stuff up to my place, while Amara and Josh hung out in the lobby. Both him and I failed our navigation rolls, so it took a little long to get up there. Still lots faster and less frustrating than the bus would've been, though! I treated him to a burger at one of the local joints, and said goodbye. And found out that this is probably his last furry con for a while, as he and his wife are expecting later this year. He's going to be a stay-at-home dad for a while, continuing to pay the rent drawing crazy furry porn, while she pursues her degree and HER job. Guess I've got some extra motivation to take a trip down to Oregon to hang with him and Amara, then…
All in all, the con went pretty well – I haven't done my final accounts but I definitely made a profit. I think I'm not going to bother with Thursday next RF if I'm dealing, though, and I'm definitely asking for a front-of-the-room table.
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Classic steep aid route at Smith, up a proud section of the Picnic Lunch Wall. Still pretty heads up, though there are lots of new bolts. This route has seen many bail probably more than have topped out. P1 - A2+ - Start below a roof with a hook move. Follow pin scared crack past 3 bolts to botled anchor. I heard this pitch went clean, I still placed 2 beaks and a LA and thought it was heads up. P2 - 5.6 A2 - Traverse under roof with the ocasional free move. Belay at anchor with tat, and many additional bolts. P3 - 5.7 A3 - Head up on above the belay on bolts to diheadral, occasinal free move, belay at first set of new anchors. P4 - A3 - Tricky aid with some bad bolts through the roof. Pass intermidate belay. And belay at brand new beley with rap rings just below edge of the roof. P5 - 5.6 A2+ - More aid and bolts in diheadral to bolt ladder traverse on ancient bolts. Belay from 3 big new bolts on ledge. Scramble up and off to the right. One tricky move to get off on slab above soft shoe balet. A rope might be nice here if youve got heavy loads, as there are 2 nice new bolts above this section.
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Kim Schmitz and Tom Bauman were Oregon's best climbing talents of their time. The boldness and commitment they assumed to pursue climbing on Oregon's first, and most impressive big wall showed their world-class abilities. The style they completed it in is equally impressive. Ground-up, in a push, 2 days on the wall, and a freezing night shivered away after a dropped sleeping bag. Knifeblades and 1/4" bolts in the softest of rock! Schmitz laments that the final traverse headed right for easier ground instead of continuing to the top of the wall, but after seeing the caked-on vertical cow shit that qualifies for "rock" on the uppermost headwall, It seems their choice to retreat to the rightmost ledge system could have saved their lives! Out of respect to preserve such an awesome wall and honor such a solid acheivment, please refrain from further nailing on this wall! The pin-scars are already large enough- any further nailing is just destructive. In following the soft-rock ethics of better known aid destinations (Zion)aid ascents of this route should now see clean climbing only. 5.7 C2+ seems fair, with the aid crux coming right off the ground at the base of the wall. All the anchors, and many bolts have been upgraded as of July of 2010. No bolts have been added to the aid climbing, however, approx. 30 antique bolts have been replaced, and 16 un-needed bolts have been removed. A double rack to 4", sawed-off hand placed pegs, offset nuts, single stemmed cams, tri-cams, and a tent pole stick clip are your modern equipment needs if you would like to climb this wall. And you should climb this wall! This wall can be rappeled anywhere below the 5th pitch with some down clipping and 2 60m ropes. If you complete pitch 5- walk off down the Misery Ridge trail. Go Clean, Go free, or Go home! :)

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Tracy High also had a doubles team going after a spot in the section tournament, but a rain delay Friday left the outcome of that tournament in limbo.
Delgadillo and Lewis beat a St. Mary's team in the semifinals to make it to the championship match. St. Mary's Michael Bottke and Hans Frey won the championship 6-4, 6-3.
Delgadillo also made it to the semifinal round in the TCAL singles tournament Thursday after he won his first two matches in 10-game sets, 10-4 against Tim Cronin of Tokay and 10-9 (3) against Michael Bottke of St. Mary's.
He finally faced Josh Mireles of St. Mary's, who came in second last year after West's Brett Spadoni beat him in the championship match. Mireles won this year's semifinal match 6-0, 6-0 and went on to beat teammate Michael Solari 6-0, 6-2 in the championship.
West coach Danette McDaniel said that Delgadillo and his brother, Martin, joined the team late this year and started off at the bottom of the team's ranking ladder. From there, they proceeded to move up consistently.
"I really am so impressed with these young men, especially (Daniel). He made it further in the tournament than the others," she said.
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In singles play Thursday at In-Shape Marina Sports Club In Stockton, Tracy's Niraj Punjya beat Bear Creek's Kao Saephan, 10-5, and then lost his second match 10-0 to Ed Herbert.
Tracy's Jon Trinidad had a bye in the first round and beat Lincoln's Drew Butler 10-6. He then faced Lodi's Jon Sharp and lost 6-4, 6-2. Tracy coach Patrick O'Brien said it was Trinidad's final match as a senior, and one of his toughest of the season.
The doubles matches Friday were plagued by rain and halted twice. Tracy's Chris Pope and Mitchell Adams beat Chavez High's Eric Ho and Austin Puenddy, 10-2, in the first round and lost 10-6 to Lodi's Harrison Prewett and Juan Valencia in the second round.
Tracy's Punjya and Ryan Kelly had a bye in the first round and beat Bear Creek's Blong Thao and Mark Zhu 10-2 in the second round. They were playing the Lodi team of Matt Machado and Jarod Weeks in the semifinals when the match was delayed because of rain with a score of 1-1 in the first set.
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Tracy took a win at home in the last league match of the season on Tuesday to finish the season at 6-4 and in third place in the San Joaquin Athletic Association behind Lodi and Lincoln.
In the singles, Tracy's Trinidad beat Kao Saephan 7-5, 6-1; and Tracy's Kelly beat Ryan Eldred 6-2, 6-5. Punjya had to play hard for his win, in which he came back to defeat Johnson Thao 4-6, 7-5 (7-3) and 7-5.
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This Entrepreneurial Story is about Hitesh, Amit & Prashant who Founded 'listopten.com' located in New Delhi, India.
Founding Team:
- Hitesh Sharma (Co-founder): Was a MBA student, however his passion for e-commerce let him to move to a VC funded e commerce start up and drop studies mid way. Hitesh later completed MBA (symbiosis) and started his own venture to peruse Entrepreneurship full time. He faced a problem of finding best things online and joined hands with Amit to execute the same. Hitesh hails from a Maarwari business family in Assam and keeps deep business know how. Connect on Facebook
- Amit Mehta (Co-founder): Amit kumar is a MBA graduate who quit his well settled job to get into this venture with Hitesh. Amit follows one principle in life " Move fast or die" and has vision to take this company at a height in quickest possible time. He hails from a business family in Varanasi. Amit keeps deep knowledge in the field of marketing and user engagements, he is also an artist by hobby. Facebook connect
- Prashant Singh (Co-founder): Prashant is MCA with 5 years of experience in various companies like yellow pages and matrimony sites. He always had a dream of working at his own venture and creating some value with his skills and finally took risk and quit his job to join hands with Hitesh and Amit for a plunge into Entrepreneurship.
Started on 14th Sept 2013
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What is the concept and idea behind Listopten? [A brief description and features of your startup.]
Listopten helps you to find Top10 results based on real people opinion on anything you search online. Listopten helps you generate free traffic for your business from the Top10 lists.
Opinion and recommendations have been biggest driving factors of the buying behaviour in India and world. We are building a crowed sourced Top10 of everything so that you can check user rated Top10 things before making a decision of buying a product, watching a movie etc. We are providing free marketing tool for all business units. You can create Top10 lists and generate free traffic from our website.
What was the motive behind starting Listopten? How did the idea of starting this venture born?
We were sitting back at home and searching for best android phones to buy and landed on e-commerce and few review sites but they could not help to understand which one is the best among all available options. Therefore we thought there should be a site which should only show public generated results of Top 10 items in all categories so that we don't get lost in 5000+ results coming out of Google search
Tell us about your team. What they do and how they joined you?
Two ( Hitesh and Amit) out of three co-founders met in B-school together, Amit competed MBA and the Hitesh dropped out and joined an ecommerce start-up, after few years they again came back together to start listopten.com. The third co-founder Prashant is close friend too.
How Listopten is different than other sites from the same domain?[ Also include- How did you score in Alexa in short period of time?]
We are the only portal where user can come and check the Top 10 favorite things shared by other users and their favorite online stores and also share opinion on the list and create their version of list. We are not selling directly but helping users to make better choice online and also generate free business to the online stores.
How did you manage promotion of the site?
We are currently getting traffic via word of mouth and google. There is huge shift in how people search on google and the keywords user by them. These days Google quickly parse entire questions and complex queries and return relevant answers, as opposed to looking at queries on a keyword-by-keyword.
Eg- huge chunk of people search for Top 10 xyz or Best xyz instead of just typing xyz on google. People want to see the best 10 results instead of getting lost in all the results and wasting time to sort out best 10. At listopten you get only best 10 of everything.
How much money and time did you invest in your startup?
Currently we are self-funded and invested 10+ lakhs so far including opportunity costs and looking for angel investors who can support us building a long term sustainable product to serve the people searching for Top 10 things online.
What's your future plan?
We are currently focusing on building product and providing traffic to our e-commerce clients like carnation.in, snapdeal.com, infibeam.com etc. and providing an engaging platform to the users. We are working on monetization of list and users creating Top 10 list will be given monetary advantages as per popularity if his lists
What's your success mantra?
Our team is purely dedicated to work 16-18 hours in a days and consistently working hard to help people make better choice online. For us our highly passionate team with a clear vision and common objective is biggest strength.
One particular skill you got right and gave you best results.
Persistence when things don't work your way and courage to take the challenge for turning it around with hard-work and patience.
What have been your biggest challenges in running your Business so far?
We are a small team working on a big project, we work for 16 hours a day officially but to grow faster we are looking for funds to hire more people who can join our team.
How did you overcome these challenges?
Looking for angel funding, already in talk with few but evaluating Angels in terms of what value they can bring to listopten instead of just money, not all people with money in pocket have mind set to do something big instead of just investing money to make money.
What have you found the most effective way to get new clients?
Providing more and more value back to the client FREE.
How did you keep motivated through difficult times?
Borrow funds from friends and family
Whats Your Marketing, Funding and Team Building Strategy?
No marketing budget as of now focusing on organic traffic. Currently looking to raise Angel funding to fuel our start up which will be used solely to hire few people to join our team.
What message would you like to give to upcoming entrepreneurs?
Feel a problem and without thinking much jump into it and improve with time and establish your product, never try to be facebook or pintrest on the first day of launch.
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In "Parable of the Prodigal Son," what does prodigal mean and which brother is it?
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In "Parable of the Prodigal Son," what does prodigal mean and which brother is it?
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The word "prodigal" means someone who wastes what they have, someone who is very wasteful. From that, you can see which son it was that was prodigal. It was the younger son who is referred to in the "title" of this parable.
If you remember, it was the younger son who wanted his inheritance right away. He went off and he spent the inheritance in really stupid ways -- he totally wasted it. Meanwhile, his older brother stayed at home doing everything just the way he was supposed to. So he was definitely not prodigal.
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Thinking About Non-Competes
Now here's a good test of the venture blogging community. Our friend and co-investor on a number of deals, Bijan Sabet, has started a meme, "Eliminate Non Competes", and I think we should discuss it online. Here's the entire FeedBurner VC network, I'd love to see posts from all these bloggers on the subject. We could tag them all in delicious or technorati, or both, and then we'd have a full blown blog discussion. I'll do my part. Here's my thoughts and I'll tag this post with noncompete on technorati and delicious.
I've been involved in doing venture deals for 20 years and the non-compete has always been a standard deal term in our term sheets (except for california deals where non-competes are not enforceable). My friend Morty always said "just because you always get it in a deal doesn't mean it makes sense". So I'll approach this one with Morty in mind. I'll try to think about why non-competes are good for the companies we invest in (and us).
I don't buy Bijan's argument that Massachusetts' strong enforcement of non-competes is the reason his state is trailing California in new company creation. I think California's emergence as the center of the startup ecosystem has to do with a lot of things and non-competes would be way down on the list.
I do buy his argument that if they aren't going to be enforced then why have them in our agreements. Its silly to have a provision in an agreement that nobody has any intention of using.
But I've had several experiences in my career that a non-compete was helpful to our portfolio company and our investment. One that sticks out in my memory is a situation about four years ago when the VP Sales of one of our portfolio companies was recruited to become VP Sales at a publicly traded competitor of ours that was bigger, stronger, and eager to put our company out of business. We stopped that employee from being able to take that job by enforcing the non-compete and the big company walked away from the offer. This story has a funny ending. A few years later, our company ended up buying the larger competitor.
It's not a good thing when one of your key employees, particularly one that knows your entire customer base or your entire code base, or worse knows your entire employee population and who is a superstar and who is not, leaves to join a direct competitor. It's in the company's interest to stop that from happening. So I am in favor of non-competes for senior members of a management team and key employees.
That said, I think non-competes need to be paid for. You can't ask someone to sit on the beach for six months or a year and not pay them. If someone is fired or leaves for "good reason" and wants to work for a named competitor, they should be required to ask your permission to do so. If your company refuses that permission, then it needs to pay the employee to sit on the sidelines for that period of time at the same rate they were paid when they worked for your company. If an employee just quits and then wants to work for a competitor, that should not be allowed for at least six months and ideally a year.
In addition, "competitor" needs to be tightly defined. Let's look at our portfolio. Simply Hired is a competitor of Indeed. Mint is a competitor of Wesabe. Facebook is not a competitor of Etsy just because they both have communities at their core. It takes work to define what a competitor is and is not and many lawyers are overly broad in their definitions because it's hard to define something tightly. But we should all work to do that. Because it's not right to stop someone from working for another company unless its a direct competitor and I mean direct.
So let me summarize my positions. I am not excited about the prospect of eliminating non-competes from our deal terms. I think non-competes are very much in the interests of our portfolio companies. But the non-competes need to be tightly defined and the term of the non-compete needs to be paid for by the portfolio company if the employee was forced out of the company. The non-competes should certainly apply to all senior management team members and all key employees (like star engineers and such).
It takes a lot of work to build a company. You should not risk all that knowledge and talent being able to walk out the door and set up shop across the street. Those are my thoughts. What are yours?
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on 26-04-2012 08:57 PM
I really need the rear touch feature as my game heavily realies on it (for the Vita).
At the least, mirroring the front touch panel should be an option if compatibility with Android devices is necessary.
But let's be honest, most people using the PS Suite tools are doing so to make Vita games
and the Vita's rear touch panel is a unique hardware feature/advantage that distinguishes it from the competition.
It would a shame not to have access to it, as the back panel allows for completely new experiences never possible before.
on 26-04-2012 09:53 PM
Given the constant requests like this, it almost seems like the PSS team might want consider breaking the PSS paradigm into "All Platforms (Inc. PSVita)" and "PSVita Specific." I realize that this probably won't happen (yeah yeah, forcing cross-compatability lets you grow PS Suite app count and use that to market PS Certified handsets/tablets), but it seems like there's a LOT of interest in the PSVita specific features. And you guys DO want to showcase the PSVita hardware, right?
on 26-04-2012 10:56 PM
I too would love to see support for the rear touch panel, as it would definitely enhance my app. I would think that as long as Sony has control over what apps can be sold through PSS, they should be able to require that every app work fine with only the standard controls, and still allow for developers to enable optional rear touch support on the Vita (or any other unique features). That way every app is still available for every PSS device, but we still have some apps that can optionally utilize features unique to certain devices.
on 27-04-2012 01:53 PM
Personally I think device specific features should be used in such a way that the game will still work without them (on a phone or tablet for example). We should be writing our games with a base specification geared towards touchscreens then add in additional control options for Xperia Play and Vita, and camera, motion, rear touch features if and when we get access to them to enhance certain versions of the game running on certain platforms.
on 27-04-2012 06:21 PM
"Enhancing" an app only on certain platforms is a quick way to get the other platforms' users to complain that you sold them "crippled" software for the same price.
on 27-04-2012 06:43 PM
Only if you make substandard games. There are plenty of great games that already do this and have versions on say iPad and iPhone with very different control schemes and UI to suit different size devices. Or games that are available on both Wii and DS but have very different control schemes and use the screens in different ways.
In one of the racing games I'm making in PSS for example I have it set to auto-accelerate when played on an Xperia S or Tablet but on an Xperia Play or PS Vita you have to press the right shoulder button. It usually just comes down to making the most of what features you have available on each platform.
on 29-04-2012 08:44 PM
on 29-04-2012 10:36 PM
I'd like to suggest the solution where rear touch panel acts the same as the front touch panel, alternatively, allow for the front touch screen on other devices to emulate the rear touch panel by pressing or holding a key to switch between input modes.
on 01-05-2012 01:15 PM
Personally I think it should be added simply as a second available touchscreen. Games should be written so that they don't fully rely on the functionality of the rear touch but players can use it to enhance their gameplay experience if they want to use it.
on 16-05-2012 03:59 PM
If throngs of PC developers can somehow deliver a consistent experience with various devices that can be hooked up to a PC, I should think we PS Vita developers should be capable of handling an additional touchpad...
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So we were chuffed to bits to stumble across this brilliant spoof - courtesy of the very funny people at Pleated-Jeans.com - which sends up every infomercial ever made in just under a minute. Watch it! Then watch it again - absolutely free!
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Phishing for Opera (GM#007-OP)
From: GreyMagic Software (securityGREYMAGIC.COM)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 08:53:59 CDT
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GreyMagic Security Advisory GM#007-OP
By GreyMagic Software, 03 Jun 2004.
Available in HTML format at
Topic: Phishing for Opera.
Discovery date: 16 May 2004.
Affected applications:
Opera 7.50 and prior.
Most browsers today implement a "Shortcut Icon" (favicon) feature. This
feature gives web-sites the option to add a small icon to the address bar
and/or favorites.
Opera also implements this feature. However, unlike other browsers, Opera
allows the use of icons that may be large in width.
It is possible to use this feature in Opera to fool users into believing
that they are in a domain they trust (their bank, web-mail, etc) while
serving and receiving content in a hostile domain. Thereby enabling identity
theft, credit card scams and more.
This can be done by creating an icon that contains the text of the desired
site, which would be similar in appearance to the way Opera shows addresses
in the address bar.
This alone, however, is not enough, as it will cause the real address to
appear to the right of the fake address. Unfortunately, this too can be
circumvented by tricking Opera into showing the right-hand side of the
attacking URL, while filling that side with spaces.
The result is a very convincing fake address appearing in the address bar.
Create an image that looks like an address in Opera's address bar and use
the following element to include it in a page:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="linkToFakeAddress.gif">
A proof-of-concept demonstration of this issue is available at
GreyMagic informed Opera of the vulnerability on 19-May-2004. A new version
(7.51) was released on 03-Jun-2004 to address this problem.
Tested on:
Opera 7.23.
Opera 7.50.
The information in this advisory and any of its demonstrations is provided
"as is" without warranty of any kind.
GreyMagic Software is not liable for any direct or indirect damages caused
as a result of using the information or demonstrations provided in any part
of this advisory.
- Copyright © 2004 GreyMagic Software.
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Sports Roundup Thursday, Dec. 13Girls basketball – Paulding Lady Panthers dropped a 54-35 loss to conference foe Allen East at home on Thursday night. The Panthers fell behind 17-9 at the end of the first quarter and then climbed back into the game, 28-22, at the half. However, Paulding was only able to post 13 points in the second half. Sierra McCullough scored 13 points for Paulding and Abby Pease added 10. Sports Roundup Tuesday, Dec. 11Girls basketball- Wayne Trace moved to 2-4 on the season with a 54-40 win over county rival Paulding in non-league girls basketball action at the 'Palace' Tuesday night. Krystal Wannemacher scored 17 points to lead the red, white and blue with Tanya Sinn chipping in a dozen markers. Erin Mohr added eight points and a dozen rebounds for the Raiders. Brooke Combs scored 16 points for Paulding, which drops to 2-3. Sierra McCullough chipped in eight for the Panthers. Wrestling – The Wayne Trace varsity wrestling team defeated the Antwerp Archers last night by a score of 84-0. The Raiders then defeated the Fairview Apaches by a score of 65-9. To read the rest of this article please subscribe or sign in |


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We've gathered some of the online mumblings from former employees of the now-defunct paper. On his blog LA Photo, photojournalist Ted Soqui posted some of the lovely covers he'd done over the years, and wrote:
Worked with several amazing editors, writers, and designers there, and made some life long friends. LA City Beat will not fade in my memory.
Journalist Dennis Romero wrote on DanceBlogga.com:
Although I had problems with the way the place was run in the last year, it's disappointing to see that L.A. can't support two weekly newspapers. More than anything, the paper's demise is a product of the soft economy and an advertising and media world that's migrating online.
On lytrules.com, Luke Y. Thompson vented his frustration at seeing a paper with so much talent go under:
Was it the economy, or was it the incredibly stupid move by management to fire Steve Appleford as editor/head/writer/photographer? (Firing a guy who does almost everything, and replacing him with, for example, someone who had never been an editor before…surely not the best business plan). After Steve left, the paper never recovered. An expensive "relaunch" gave the paper cosmetic changes that were all reversed a few months later, and Rebecca Schoenkopf, whose strength as a writer is first-person pieces, became editor and wrote a cover story that was just a bullet-point piece of bits of advice her mom gave her. I grant you, I would rather read that than the OC Weekly's umpteenth report on the Capistrano School District, but it's still not cover-story material.
Donnell Alexander noted the demise of CityBeat on his website, and posted a story he was assigned to write for a future issue of the paper. It's a piece for which he's yet to be paid. His closing words:
I'll miss CityBeat even though Southland Publishing – for whom I worked as New Angeles EIC, too – is the cheapest fucking publisher ever to employ this nigga. Runaway titlist. No company has come close.
MSNBC has decided not to find another show for the 10PM time slot. Our sister site, TVNewser talked to Keith Olbermann about the announcement:
The fact that the 10pm replay is more competitive now is obviously great news, but if a terrific opportunity for a new show presents itself tomorrow, management will move on it," predicts Olbermann.
How does the host of the Young Turks, Cenk Uygur feel about this? You maybe wondering, what does it feel like being kicked out of line because the ride is closed down until further notice? (No we're not talking about City Beat again.)
Uygur tells FBLA, "We're just getting started. You can't stop us, the best you can do is hope to contain us. So, Round Two of the MSNBC campaign is going to start soon. When the 10PM time slot does become available, it will be ours. We now take the role of heir apparent — the crown price of 10PM on MSNBC.
"The only thing that can prevent this is if we get an offer from another station in the meanwhile. CNN, Headline News, Comedy Central and HBO are obvious possibilities, but there are many others as well. Our audience is excited to bring this to the next level. So, this is not the end, it is the beginning. Ready or not, here we come!"
Irvine-based Entrepreneur Magazine and the Entrepreneur.com website have seen their editorial staff decimated this week. We hear from former employees that the layoffs include the executive editor, the managing editor, the online editor, an associate editor, the special projects editor, a staff writer and 2 editorial assistants. Who's left?
The company had already suffered a number of layoffs last August, which an Entrepreneur press release described as a "reorganization of its editorial department as part of its strategy to combine the company's print and online content development teams." Sounds like more work, less money to us.
Walt Disney Co. and Google completed a deal yesterday that will see short-form content from ESPN and ABC distributed on YouTube. They mean it when they say short-form. We won't be seeing full-length episodes, at least not yet. But if Google has it's way, we will be seeing more ads. From the LAT article:
The agreement would extend the Internet reach for ESPN's sports highlights and ABC News updates and provide another outlet for video snippets taken from the ABC broadcast network and ABC Family cable channel shows. Disney hopes the arrangement will bring its advertisers to YouTube, a site that has 100 million monthly visitors but has had difficulty making money off "user-generated content." Disney would keep the majority of the proceeds, YouTube said.
Ed Padgett got some great shots of the pressman's union rally at the Los Angeles Times yesterday. Workers were protesting the company's failure to give severance packages to 63 union pressroom employees whose jobs were recently cut. The full set of pictures can be found on Flickr.
Journo, Erica Smith, whom we've dubbed The Newsroom Angel of Death for her somber vigil of the death of our national print papers.
Apparently, her record keeping has gotten pretty popular, we've received press releases with her name dropped in. Now CNN is using her stats…mangling them.
She sent us this email:
CNN is referencing Paper Cuts, saying "More than 21,000 jobs at 67 newspapers have vaporized" which is so wrong. Only 67 papers? That's 313 jobs per paper. I gave them more accurate numbers than that. I've tried contacting the original reporter; no fix. And now non-CNN people are picking up that number and using it in other stories. (And that's just lazy research!)
Yeah, there were almost 16,000 jobs lost just in 2008, according to our crack research team.
Smith clarifies:
On March 19, when the reporter [Stephanie Chen] asked, 428 papers had announced layoffs in 2008, and 246 had announced layoffs in 2009. Now, the '09 number is about 305, and there have been about 1,500 more layoffs. And of course some (but not all) of the same papers that announced layoffs in '08 are doing the same thing in '09.
Previously on FBLA: FBLA Checks in with Erica Smith, Paper Cuts Hits 1000 for the Year…Already, Newspaper Layoffs Hit 6,000 This Year – in March – Mid-March
Jack Shafer writes in his column "Bring Back Yellow Journalism" in Slate:
But every now and again, I wish the newspapers landing on my doorstep contained a little more blood, took a position without being partisan, yelled a tad more, and brushed some yellow from the palette while painting their stories.
There. I've said it. I wish our better newspapers availed themselves of some of the techniques of yellow journalism and a little less of the solemnity we associate with the Committee of Concerned Journalists. Yes, the yellow journalism of William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's New York World from the 1890s.
Now before you storm the U.S. Congress' Periodical Press Galleries, demanding that they deny my latest application for a press card, hear me out. Being rambunctious to the extreme, yellow journalism is misunderstood. At its best, yellow journalism was terrific, and at its worst, it really wasn't all that bad.
Uhm. Yeah.
Isn't yellow journalism the gold standard of cable news?
Thanks, Fast Company…change the conversation. Make us look smarter for reading you.
Yes, it's true: In one of the great under-told media success stories of the past decade, NPR has emerged not as the bespectacled schoolmarm of our imagination but as a massive news machine poised for what Dick Meyer, editorial director for digital media, half-jokingly calls "world domination." NPR's listenership has nearly doubled since 1999, even as newspaper circulation dropped off a cliff. Its programming now reaches 26.4 million listeners weekly — far more than USA Today's 2.3 million daily circ or Fox News' 2.8 million prime-time audience. When newspapers were closing bureaus, NPR was opening them, and now runs 38 around the world, better than CNN. It has 860 member stations — "boots on the ground in every town" that no newspaper or TV network can claim. It has moved boldly into new media as well: 14 million monthly podcast downloads, 8 million Web visitors, NPR Mobile, an open platform, a social network, even crowdsourcing. And although the nonprofit has been hit by the downturn like everyone else, its multiple revenue streams look far healthier long term than the ad-driven model of commercial media. (In 2003, Joan Kroc, widow of McDonald's founder Ray, gave a $200 million endowment to NPR, the largest gift ever to an American cultural institution. She must have gotten one hell of a tote bag.)
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The Amazing Spider-Man Earns 2nd Highest 4th of July Gross
Grosses $23.4 million in its second day
According to Sony Pictures, The Amazing Spider-Man took in $23.4 million yesterday to bring its two-day total to $59.2 million, at the same time increasing their opening day box office estimate to $35.8 million.
That's a 35% day-to-day drop (or 17% if you remove the midnight screenings) but it's also the second-highest daily gross for a movie playing on the 4th of July.
By comparison, Michael Bay's Transformers actually increased to make $29.1 million five years ago, setting a 4th of July record, while Spider-Man 2 made $22 million on 4th of July in 2004, although that was its fourth day in theaters.
Sony have also upped their internal estimate for the movie's first six days to $120 to 130 million or more.
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I have a repair problem that I have not been able to find a solution to although I have spent many hours researching on the web and talking to local tile repair people. The ceramic tile on my floor, installed in 1986, has one tile that is badly cracked. I was told it is impossible to replace because the entire floor may crack.
I had bought a product to repair ceramic tile, which is like paint. However, the color doesn't match and it has a shiny finish while my tile has a matte finish. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I can't imagine to whom you have been talking - no tile guy I know, for sure! Ceramic tiles are the easiest type of floor to repair. Not effortless (since it can require some strength and patience), but rather easy in the "aesthetic" sense. If you have a matching tile and can get a close-enough grout color, the repair will over time become absolutely invisible as the grout ages. The hardest part in my experience is getting a color match for the tile unless you are lucky enough to have a box hidden somewhere in the basement!
Having worked on many tile repair jobs, the only situation that I can recall where a "small" tile repair cannot be done is if all the tiles were installed poorly. Occasionally, I will encounter a floor that was installed using "thinset", a Portland cement-based tile adhesive. It is a powder and must be mixed on-site with cool water. Sometimes if too dry of a mix is used, too much moisture will be drawn off into the subfloor (plywood or cement slab) and a very weak bond will form. Then during repair, the entire floor will begin to loosen up when one tile is removed! Even trying to loosen the grout will sometimes cause adjacent tiles to dislodge. This "Rube Goldberg" scenario can cause a single tile repair to grow to an entire floor replacement! Other than that, I can't imagine a tile job where a single tile cannot be extracted successfully.
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Oh man, the old organizational gong show. I think all schools have this problem to some extent, but it's definitely more pronounced in private schools I've noticed. American English School seems to be particularly badly run. A lot of this comes from Jonathon's experience but it feels very much in line with things I've seen and heard.
Today was posted in advance, right now I'm probably moving into my new apartment and recovering from Emerald City Comicon. If you discovered this strip at the con, then I hope you've enjoyed what you read thus far.
Hopefully things will still be on track for next weeks update.