Family, Cool Stuff and Assorted Geekery; the finer things in life. Updated when I have something interesting to write :)
(This is a log of my players run through the Out of the Abyss campaign (After a brief dabble with Harried at Hillsfar first. Spoilers abound, though it’s likely the team won’t play the module in the way you, the writers or sanity intended).
Having been brutalised by wildlife repeatedly over the previous few days the team try and get some more muscle on board.
Continue reading “Apocalypse Maybe: A D&D Campaign Log. Part 3: A Well-Oiled Team”
(This is a log of my players run through the Out of the Abyss campaign (After a brief dabble with Harried at Hillsfar first. Spoilers abound, though it’s likely the team won’t play the module in the way you, the writers or sanity intended).
Our fearless party met up in the outskirts of Hillsfar after many people had been evicted into the surrounding countryside. While only together for a brief period of time the party had already made it’s mark.
Continue reading “Apocalypse Maybe: A D&D Campaign Log. Part 2: You Have To Be Kidding”
I’ve started running a D&D campaign using the Fantasy Grounds software with my friends. After a few quick mini-adventures to get used to the system, we’re going to launch into the Out of the Abyss campaign (with a brief dabble with Harried at Hillsfar first)
Normally a spoiler warning would be appropriate in case you want to play this yourself in the future but the likelihood of my players;
is pretty infinitesimal so take it with a pinch of salt. If the Forgotten Realms is still standing at the end we’ll clock it as a major win.
Continue reading “Apocalypse Maybe: A D&D Campaign Log. Part 1: Meet the Merry Band of Heroes.”Another year, another set of statistics. Here’s the figures for the past year. Pretty cool! Thanks for reading!
Here’s another quick update of the script with 2 small fixes and a new piece of functionality (the ability to sync to multiple target folders from the same source). Continue reading “PowerShell: Synchronizing a Folder (and Sub-Folders) Part 12”
The new XCOM 2 expansion is fantastic, expanding most areas of the game and providing loads more ways to play it. It’s still XCOM though and if you follow the tips for Legendary here you won’t go far wrong. That said, the new toys you’re given provides even more cool ways to pummel aliens, so why wouldn’t you use them?
And the Chosen themselves? They can interfere with your awesome plans and ruin your day.
So.
CONSTANT VIGILANCE.
And the tips below 🙂 Continue reading “XCOM 2: War of the Chosen Tips”
The family and I went to see a great open-air performance of Much Ado About Nothing at Wadham College Gardens, Oxford. Worth going to see it if you can! Continue reading “Much Ado About Nothing @ Oxford”
A bit of a niche function this one. When you perform a mailbox export in Exchange using the New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet you can specify the ContentFilter parameter. This allows you to pass an OPATH filter to only export SOME of the content from a mailbox.
One of the examples on the page above is;
New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox Tony -ContentFilter {(body -like “*company*”) -and (body -like “*profit*”) -and (Received -lt “01/01/2012”)}
So what if you need to check the syntax of a ContentFilter? Continue reading “PowerShell: Checking the Syntax of an Exchange Mailbox Export Content Filter”
When I started as an IT dogs-body I was lucky enough to do quite a bit of travelling. For a young guy this was awesome; configure Exchange servers, see the world! But it also meant I was hopelessly naive AND due to my extreme Britishness I didn’t speak any other languages (even English was ropy).
So I occasionally suffered from Culture Shock, like when I was sent to Rome to set up Exchange on short notice… Continue reading “Tales From IT: Cultural Differences”
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