"Man in the Middle" Serious Game Design Advantages

The Virtual Terrorism Response Academy (VTRA) is part of the Dartmouth Medical School. The Interactive Media Lab announced availability of its emergency response training software. Interestingly, it's a mix of instructor/expert content and "video game" style software. This hybrid format can overcome some common objections for "games" and adds credibility that on-camera experts can lend to a project.



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Cash on Hand -> Ethical Lapses at Microsoft?

Sometimes having too much cash on hand is not a good thing. Here's an example of Microsoft offering to buy off a Wikipedia author to influence his entry on OOXML. As reported by NWC, OOXML is a Microsoft-sponsored variation of the Open Document Format electronic publishing standard. Microsoft purportedly offered to pay Rick Jelliffe to change his entry on OOXML.

Windows App Install Permissions in Corporate Settings

I worked for more than a decade as a consultant in Fortune 100 settings. I remember well the difficulties one faces when installing even an innocuous application in Windows when you don't have admin (root) access. Martin McKay weighs in on the User Access Control in Vista, which, it seems, is not helping matters. I chime in with a reply on the CW blog page.

"Sorry! We could not process your data due to a loss of session data"

MediaWiki users have apparently seen this message fairly often, based upon its prevalence -- intentional or otherwise -- on web sites. Less often appearing is commentary on cause.

In at least some of the cases, this is actually a PHP-related problem rather than a MediaWiki problem per se. Usually it's because the php.ini file doesn't have a sensible and writeable directory for the session_save_path that is available to the webserver. Use phpinfo() to learn which php.ini is in use, correct the directory to one that's writeable and accessible to the browser, then restart the web server - usually Apache (not the computer).

This will appear at errorprocessing.com at a later date.