Wow, was November ever a hectic month for me. Between working on Toast IT and TIGC I didn't even make it to 10k words on my NaNoWriMo entry.

In the end, though, Toast IT is doing fine (in fact, probably the best it's been since I became club president). TIGC is unfortunately on hiatus now, due to organizational issues that I won't get into (as well as OMDC scheduling their own game development event at the same time as ours, which certainly didn't help).

And so, after three weeks without blog posts, I'm finally writing in here again. So it might actually be worthwhile to keep an eye out on the site again! Especially since I'll be posting my NaNoWriMo entry up here shortly. (EDIT: It's up.)

Now that Iris, the ARG created for marketing Halo 3, has completed, there's been quite a bit of examination of the game (which GameSetWatch summarizes nicely). As there are doings a-transpirin' regarding ARG coverage at the conference, I was interested in reading about how the game played out, and the usual postmortem stuff (what went right & wrong).

Over at TIGC, we've announced new dates for the conference. It's been a while in the works, but all sorts of logistical issues (as well as issues with Toast IT) have been holding up the arrangements and announcement. I'm glad that it's finally out of the way, but there's more to come on that front, as well as for Toastmasters.

While I've not been able to do much development lately, things have been keeping me quite busy recently. With the computer I'm currently using, it takes a lot to do a little, but I am getting a bit of work done on my projects (mainly redesigning them since I've given up all the old code for dead). I've also been doing a bit of work on the site, such as adding Twitter support (check out the Current Activity section on the sidebar), and figuring out how to package Freebasic for distribution with Ubuntu.

I'm happy to announce that the Toronto Independent Games Conference is now open for both attendee registration and presentation submissions. We're seriously gearing up to have the biggest, best game conference ever seen in Ontario!

I've got my work cut out for me. Next week at Toast IT Toastmasters we're holding an open house meeting, and as the club's current VP Education, I'm going to be giving a speech about The Toastmasters Experience. Besides helping plan the event and watching out for unforseen problems I've still got the speech to write and practice before the meeting (which is on Tuesday, at Metro Hall). In addition, we're ramping up with TIGC, trying to finally lock down our location for 2007 and hopefully 2008. And then there's still planning to do for Anime North!