http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/ 2012-05-20T10:43:22-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/ http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/lib/tpl/default/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-04-27T09:28:47-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=books_for_every_library&rev=1335533327&do=diff The following is a categorical list of all the books I think should be in anyone's library. It is a mixture of Western and Eastern canon, political, religious and philosphical treatises, genre fiction, and whatever else I've come across that fits the bill. For the time being, it is a work in progress. text/html 2011-03-28T15:34:08-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=cirps&rev=1301340848&do=diff The Continuous Improvement Role Playing System is a new way of creating and managing role playing games. It is designed to eliminate the concept of discrete character classes and levels, and to the greatest extent possible codifies character creation and management and adventure building in a computer readable way. The system has elements of numerous game systems, but is most similar to D20. text/html 2010-11-10T15:53:35-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=earth_10k&rev=1289422415&do=diff Synopsis Ten thousand years after The Great Collapse, an event that nearly destroyed all life on the planet, descendants of humanity have begun to crawl out of their darkest ages, establishing new pockets of civilization in an attempt to reclaim their former glory. Their now-forgotten technologies have altered them profoundly, creating completely new kinds of creatures, human and … not. Clues to their origins are buried in expansive epics and oral traditions, and they are scattered across the s… text/html 2011-12-15T11:42:42-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=game_artifacts&rev=1323967362&do=diff So there are lots of concepts floating around the web, a million places to get very specific ideas for table-top role playing games. Sometimes these turn out to be good resources, and sometimes they don’t. What’s needed is a sort of meta-thinking, a way to provide a framework for organizing modular gaming materials for ready packaging and access, format conversions, licensing and community ranking and support to help surface good ideas for game designers/developers and game masters. GameArtif… text/html 2011-12-27T15:29:42-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=hdc_auth_names&rev=1325017782&do=diff This page is linked from the Hire.com entry and the Authoria entry. That's because they eventually became the same company. Here's a very brief timeline. I started working for Hire.com in 2004 as a contractor. In 2005, Authoria purchased Hire.com, and the company retained the Authoria name. text/html 2011-12-27T15:11:27-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=opm_pmf&rev=1325016687&do=diff Start: 20 July 2009 End: 15 July 2011 Title: Sr. Program Analyst (Presidential Management Fellow) Employer: US Office of Personnel Management Location: Washington, DC Description: text/html 2012-04-02T15:24:18-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=pifi&rev=1333394658&do=diff How do you quickly and easily serve up local content whose nature may be unpalatable to entrenched powers? And how do you do it in a way that minimizes your personal risk and is difficult to disrupt? That's what PiFi is supposed to solve. History/About I've been thinking about ways to blanket cities with WiFi systems since mid-2006. At the time, nobody had really built a consumer-friendly computer in a small enough package to make this doable. Otherwise we already had the pieces. The rece… text/html 2012-03-16T14:19:13-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=resume&rev=1331921953&do=diff This is a container for links to individual resume/cv/autobiographical items. You can use it as a stand-alone sort of historical record, but its primary intent was for me to organize items that can be linked to from elsewhere or consumed by other services. It's not really a resume or an autobiography in any traditional sense. text/html 2012-03-30T11:32:20-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=spanish&rev=1333121540&do=diff This is a growing list of Spanish language resources I find helpful or interesting. If you have others I should know about, email me: abhelton AT gmail DOT com. Podcasts * Asunto Del Día: A daily podcast from Radio 5. * Democracy Now! Another daily podcast. It is a translation of the popular Democracy Now! podcast, originally in English. Via NPR. text/html 2012-04-27T08:50:27-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=start&rev=1335531027&do=diff You've reached a page that deals with all sorts of things I think about, do, and otherwise tinker with in a way that can't be encapsulated in a blog. This is a wiki, of course, but it's also my sandbox. There is no guarantee that any of the things here are meaningful, complete, accurate, well-thought-out, or in any way sane. You've been warned. text/html 2011-12-27T14:14:01-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=test_embed&rev=1325013241&do=diff This is a test of the embed plugin. I should be able to see this text on another page if it works. text/html 2011-12-27T14:48:02-04:00 http://stuff.aaron-helton.com/doku.php?id=un_assoc_lib&rev=1325015282&do=diff Start: 18 July 2011 End: Present Title: Associate Librarian (Digital Information Manager) Employer: United Nations Location: New York, NY Description: