Can a Foxy Lady take me from Two Wheel N00b to Road Worrier?
I’ve always felt a bit guilty about commuting to work by car. It’s just me, my backpack and maybe some shopping on the way home in this five-seater hatchback. I always feel as …
Is Glasslands As Good A Start To A Halo Trilogy As Cryptum?
I think you folks who read this blog have already seen enough posts about me carping on over the Eric Nylund / William C. Dietz Halo novels, so I’m not …
What’s Fun About Making A YouTube Video Review Of FTL?
A few weeks ago, I purchased myself a copy of the PC game, FTL. IT was a cheap buy at around $10 (or around 4 weeks of saving on the …
Where Do Pirates Find All The Free Time?
I won’t try and hold myself up as some kind of paragon of virtue when it comes to pirating material. I’ve occasionally indulged in using a download site to get my hands …
Tooharditis: Do You Know The Symptoms To Look Out For?
If you’ve listened to the latest episode of the Paid to Play Podcast (and if you haven’t, you should – in fact, go and listen right now, then come back …
When Do I Start Making The Money I Have To Spend Money To Make?
Earlier in the year, I decided that if I was going to take podcasting seriously, I neeed some decent kit to do it with. Naturally, seeking out audio and computing …
How Big a Difference can One Piece of Hardware Make to a Computer?
My poor rig was around a year overdue for a clean out. I evicted at least two families of dust bunnies from within its case on the weekend. A few …
What Right Have I Got To Give Anyone Advice?
I spent a bit of time on Twitter last night with an old colleague who’s moved out of town. Things haven’t gone great form her perspective; her work situation is …
How Can A Good Villain Make You Write… Or Die?
Last week, I picked up the reins on Slamdance again. I opened up the private wiki I maintain (using a program called TiddlyWiki) and began crafintg an outline. It’s probably …
How Do I Train A New Pup?
A few months ago, we lost our dog Zelda to an aggressive cancer of the blood. On the day I put her down, my stepson Karl and stepdaughter Deena came …