I picked up my copy of The Lord of the Rings Online today and I am just getting everything updated so I can pick up where I left off with the beta for the past couple of weeks. If you end up taking a look, look up Blairn on Vilya and say hello. No tag [...]

I’m playing around with the publishing features on Google Spreadsheets and thought it would be fun to embed a couple of items from my mileage tracking spreadsheet. Here’s the averages bar, which I use as a kind of dashboard for overall historical information: I tried to get some of the new charts to publish, but [...]

Not that the books themselves are social, though I can think of a few fictional libraries where that might be true, but Revish is yet another social website with a focus on books. In some ways it’s closer to what I’ve been looking for than the other ones I’ve seen http://www.cavort.org/2007/02/21/while-im-thinking-about-books/. In any case, I [...]

Just finished reading Allen Steele’s new novel “Spindrift“. It was really quite a good read but I could not shake the feeling that it was a book that I had read before. There just didn’t seem to be much that was new or challenging in it, which in some ways I suppose can be a [...]

Normally I don’t post about things like this, but it’s pretty irritating and I think some people might care. Fair warning: discussion about my body and it’s reactions to medications follows. So today I have determined that not only can I not take anything from the Aspirin family for muscle pain but I can also [...]

In the category of things that would be a lot of fun to do, but I probably will never get around to actually doing anything about participating in: I’ve recently found two different races that I’ve thought it would be fairly entertaining to take part in. Yes, actual car racing, of sorts. The first one [...]

A friend recently bought the Iron Man Disassembled tpb and I mentioned how I had thought it was one of the worst Iron Man stories in quite awhile. Unfortunately when challenged for specifics I actually couldn’t quite remember why, but I did remember the story leaving a bad taste in my mouth that was only [...]

While a bit unfortunate that it is not longer, Opera Slinger turns out to be unreasonably fun for such an odd premise: Using the classic WASD first person control scheme, get your character into the spotlight before the competition and then sing your heart out. It’s only one level, and just four songs with some [...]

I have seen some pretty scary requirements for installation software before, but changing the regional time format? That is just so far beyond stupid. No tag for this post.