Artifacts of a Misspent Youth

Okay, so not really anything to do with a misspent youth, but if the Internet Wayback Machine had been around when I was a kid, I’d be dredging up bad poetry and long, long rants about how unfair the world was instead of bits and pieces of my old web site.But even so, looking back … Read more

Dead Like Me, Eureka, Who Wants to be a Superhero?

I’m kinda actually enjoying the SciFi channel now and then. Since I have a reliable way to see TV listings, I can deftly avoid accidentally tuning into Stargate – it used to be “all Stargate, all the time”, and I just can’t watch that show. It’s a shame… I liked the movie. Dead Like Me … Read more

Surya Fashions, Resort ’06

The Haven Girl brochure I did last week got printed up and we got them back yesterday (you can see the first page below). The printers finally used the Haven Girl logo font I specified instead of whichever one was their favorite that day. Came out pretty well. I tried to use more color. Have … Read more

WordPress, OpenOffice, and Inkscape

I love free and open source software (FOSS) — I really do. Out of more than twenty years of programming, the only software of mine still out in the wild was some open source stuff I wrote back in the late 80s. All the stuff I wrote for pay was locked away by my employers, … Read more

Player Reputation

This post repeats and expands upon my comments to Amber Night‘s article, Why Player Rep Will Fail; her response to the third-party player reputation site, Playerep.com. Rep based on who considers you a friend Rep systems based on friends lists seem relatively fair. You don’t get to mark anyone down, just up. The people you … Read more