Methods of employment and its ending
My first job, I got though a friend I met on IRC. It was a contract job, which ended. (3 months) My second job, I applied direct. The company died, and the job...
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I hit it with my axe – Approaches to LARP
There are three forms of LARP, traditionally. Or three approaches. They are: Narrativist: I hit it with my axe because for generations before me, my ancestors have hit things with axes. This axe...
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Empire One, Weather Nil
So that was our show. Or, rather, this was: (Photos in this post by Tom Garnett, reproduced under a CC-A licence, more available on Facebook) I’m told that was the coldest Easter for...
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Found Your Own Empire
There isn’t a whistle that will blow in 5 days, 11 hours, 48 minutes. But that’s when Empire will time in, and – with any luck – somewhere above to 1500 players will start...
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Simulated Cities
I had the original SimCity for the Amiga, but it didn’t really grab me. It wasn’t until SimCity 2000 (Back when you could use 2000 to sound futuristic) that I got hooked in...
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Ding
This is Salique. She’s a Human Engineer in Guild Wars 2: My first MMO was Ultima Online. For a long time, I tried a lot of MMOs for a trial period, until...
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Happy Returns Rebounding
A while ago, I appear to have fallen into the habit of wishing people salutations on the aniversary of their birth using “Many Happy Returns” rather than the more standard “Happy Birthday”. This...
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The ninth happy number, and round to some varieties of geek
Resolving to write more, the traditional [ 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2011,2012] birthday post seems a good step in that direction. I will be in the pub (the Porterhouse, Covent Garden, London) Later (from 4pm) if anyone...
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Kickstarter Tracking & Historic currency conversion in Google Spreadsheets
Because I’m going to need this again at some point. I’m currently tracking progress of my Kickstarted projects with a Google Drive Spreadsheet. This is partly because it tells me exactly how much...
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