+2 Con: Shane and humbug welcome guest Drew, who attended K2 so we didn't have to (actually we were at Itzacon that weekend). K2 is a residential, freeform con in the depths of the bog and very unlike any other gaming con in Ireland - and that's a good thing.

• Up in the back yard.
• People go down.
• Your Imperial Destroyers are about 3 inches long.
• Bought the box.
• A huge amount of meat.
• Didn't happen to fit in.
• Next year we'll get it in there.

Wis: Brian Nisbet is back, finishing up his excellent advice on organising and running a con or con-like event. This time he's dealing with how it'll impact your life. And it will.

• Touched on the actual nuts.
• Who you're going to do it with.
• Looking at their areas.
• Interfering with a whole bunch of other areas.
• In the end.
• If I'm involved in one more of these, I'll never want to come.
• Go it alone.
• I appreciate Shane's time and his huge array.
• A variety of parts.
• lir at lspace dot org

Apologies for the lack of an episode today - I claim the universal excuse of having been too hungover to finish the editing last night. It should be up tonight! Shane

+1 Con: Shane, humbug, Liam and Oisín report on Itzacon, which happened in Galway from the 6th to the 8th of March.

• It was bigger than I thought.
• Straight up, straight in.
• I would have been happy with twice the length.
• Cup them in your hands.
• Went to bed; it was tight.
• Selling out their slots.
• You could have gone in, done your five minutes, come back and then gone in again.
• It's nice to give people something to do in between slots.

NPC Exp: Extra-special guest hero stars Dizzy and Tom join us to talk about complicated map-board wargames World In Flames and Strike Them a Blow they've been playing so we don't have to.

• Laid hands on.
• Putting this thing out.
• Look at that thing!
• Knobbly bits.
• Looks an awful lot like a submarine.
• This is a tool.
• Unfolding the Asian.
• Covering the hole.
• Navel combat.
• Tom was invading me.
• Came in a box.
• In a bag for a tenner.
• Flank presents itself.
• Retreat to the rear.
• Debatable what the rear is.
• A bit fiddly.
• Felt quick.
• On the folds it's quite hard.
• They're nice and big.

Mere minutes after adding the little Flash audio player over on the left, I've had to remove it because it's not compatible with the .m4a format to which we've moved. It's a shame as it was a neat addition, but it's only practical to keep your webpage in basic HTML for so long (that's a metaphor). Standing still and waiting for every player or viewer to advance is stagnation - moving on will push the software end to catch up.

In my browser I'm using plugged-in Quicktime to click on the little "Pod" icon beside the show notes and it works perfectly. Henceforth I think I'll be putting any links I feel the need to directly into the podcast rather than the show notes, which is just as tedious and risks being spirited away by Internator gremlins as happened last night.

Sorry to anyone this inconveniences, but to you I say: Welcome to the WORLD OF TOMORROW!

(actually it's not that big of a deal at all)

Shane

Con: A software error eradicated the show notes I'd painstakingly constructed and am not redoing. It's now a .m4a file anyway, so has some links in it. Also people said a few things that sounded a bit rude. In this episode, Shane, Oisín and humbug explain what they got up to at Leprecon to Liam, who had to work instead. Hah. Pub quiz cheating is rumbled.

+1 Int: Shane, humbug and Dave preview the line-up for Vaticon, this weekend in University College Dublin.

• Vaticon
• University College Dublin
• Legend of the 5 Rings
• Pulpy fudge.
• Fast and easy.
• Star Wars
• Knights of the Old Republic
• GURPS
• Savage Worlds
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Werewolf: The Wild West
• Vampire: Dark Ages
• Deadlands\Werewolf cross-over
• Changeling: The Lost
• Camarilla
• Magic: The Gathering
• Legend of the 5 Rings
• Vs
• Scrabble
• Spinergy
• Articulate
• Race for the Galaxy
• Robo Rally
• Apples to Apples
• Gamesoc
• Diplomacy
• Call of Duty 4
• Mario Kart
• Rock Band
• OK Go
• Wii Sports
• Super Smash Bros.
• Necromunda
• Blood Bowl
• Mordheim
• Battlefleet Gothic
• Warhammer 40,000
• Warhammer Fantasy Battle
• He-Man
• Wikipedia
• Get from one entry to another.
• Zombies!!!
• Last Night on Earth
• Twister

Wis: Brian Nisbet returns with part 2 of his advice on running an event.

• Nuts.

Housekeeping: The file format switch happening from next episode, and some networking.

• VLC
• Winamp
• Macintosh
• iTunes
• Quicktime
• Windows Media Player
• Wikipedia entry on MPEG-4
• Wikipedia entry on .m4a
• RPGPodcasts.com
• BoardGamePodcasts.com