Anarchism – the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion – might not be possible. As a long-time member of the Open Source community, I have long leaned towards meritocracy; a form of positive anarchism where a …
I am giving away dedicated WordPress hosting. All you have to do is get my attention with your idea for how to use it. On a whim, I thought I might just give something away. What did I have to give? Well, I could always offer WordPress hosting – the …
Now, this might not be the most well thought out plan I have ever come up with but I hope through putting as much of my work online as possible, I can fight back against pain. Wait, what? Sorry, did I miss out on some context there? I live with …
This week I started what might be my single biggest public writing project ever. Whereas normally I write maybe a two or three part blog post, this is so much bigger. The Author Platforms project is a multi-page write up so big it had to have its own site. My …
For no particular reason, I have decided to compile a list of interesting and funny animal pictures from around the web. (Warning: Might take a few moments to fully load). I think it all started when Twitter told me this image of two Gannets was “sensitive material”. Talk about #fail. …
Fans of The Shadowhunter Chronicles may already be familiar with The Seelie Court. That goes double for those who have been following the TV series Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments. The Seelie queen is the sometime ally, sometimes antagonist of the protagonist teens. Operating with her own agenda, the Seelie queen …
One day I made my borg self as a social media character. It all started as an experiment in taking advantage of spammers. Back in the wild-west times of the internet when Twitter was new, spammy users were a problem, and everyone was trying to figure out how to make …
I’ve talked before about making your goblins scary again but that was Pathfinder – in Dungeons and Dragons 5e, there a whole load of low-level monsters that could pose a real risk to your players. The principle of making low level monsters terrifying is the same regardless of system. It …
I have an idea that I have started to call The Cloud of Readers. This is a mash-up of technologies to make a blogging platform that does not need a website. Tumblr has been great but it is changing and the users don’t have much say over that. Which is …
I have a vice which keeps me from writing as much as perhaps I should – my beloved Xbox and my two weekly tabletop game nights. Right now my two main addictions are Terraria, and Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms. That’s on top of my weekly Dungeons and Dragons …
