The Da Vinci Code

Being sick has been a great opportunity to catch up on my reading. And I’ve been wanting to get into Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” for a long time. For one thing, he’s from my home state of New Hampshire, so that puts him right up there with my other favorite New Hampshire novelists, … Read more

Leyawiin, my old home town

I moved to Leyawiin, in Oblivion. Bought a house. It’s a rat-trap. I keep it dark because any candle could burn the whole place down. Most nights, I sit and wait for television to be invented, but sometimes I wander about. I made the clothes of everyone at a swank dinner party disappear. That was … Read more

Blogmata

I added House of Fame, the Geoffrey Chaucer blog, to the sidebar; it’s hilarious. Thinking of changing blog software. I went with Simple PHP Blog because it was… simple… simple enough for me to host and install it myself… but it looks so primitive compared to the other blogs I see. I am thinking about … Read more

NationStates progress

There was a week that went by without me sending in my Nationstates moves, but I’ve been keeping up with it lately. My nation, Dryroot, recently passed 500 million people, which makes it a superpower. Well, here’s how it stands. And ignore that bit about being the third most corrupt government in the region; there … Read more

Red Flag Linux, Prince Harry, Sarcasm, etc.

Was just surfing, and came across mention of China’s government-sanctioned Linux distro, Red Flag Linux. It has the cutest logo ever… but I wonder how they reconcile the freedom and openness signified by Tux, the Linux Penguin, with the oppressive communist regime of the PRC? — It’s a bloggy kind of day, I guess. Prince … Read more