Yeah, I'm back.  First, let's do the apologies.  Apart from what's stored on this site - and hence, not in my home - I have no code, no documentation, no designs, no art.  This was caused by an unfortunate incident involving hell not having such fury, and which saw rather a lot of destruction of hard drives in both my dev ...

  I was just talking to somebody who used to be my friend.  A long time ago.  We fell out, over the concept of Skinner boxes.  See, I had design ideas.  He had design ideas.  I'm a programmer.  He isn't.  This gives me balance of power over who gets their ideas implemented because I don't want to code ...

Not that i needed reminding this time.  There's a really great article over at Terra Nova concerning real reactions to virtual communities and events.  And the discussion was equally interesting.  But that, as with all good things, came to an end when it suffered a full-on spam-missive comment attack by the USS Prokofy Neva in full ...

Naming first, then.  Why am i using my own name instead of ''Cael''?  Because it's something i should have done long ago. When we first started this project, our friend Richard R was in charge, so i stuck with ''Cael'' to make life a little easier and avoid any possible confusion.  ''Cael'', in case you wondered, is a name i've ...

I'm tempted to write ''that is all'', but what the hell.  The Escapist has an issue on Serious Games.  I played PeaceMaker through as both sides and eventually won from both sides and it was quite fun but mostly what i learned was ''in order to make peace, beat the shit out of your own militants continually and (Israeli side) get a lot ...

Oh, there's all kinds of legal precedents for freedom of speech and the rights of individuals, but nobody ever wrote down a constitution for this country, and i approve of that.  There's a strong tendency wherever that kind of document exists to go with a ''well, the Constitution doesn't say you can do it, so we can ban it.''  Where as ...