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Whirled is finally in open Beta. I’ve actually been on whirled for a while now. I submitted my address to Three Rings and I received an invite to their closed alpha. I was interested to see what whirled would be like, since I’m a fan of some of their other games. On one level, Whirled [...]

Last weekend, I began taking measures for surviving the hop shortage.  I planted some hop rhizomes around the outside of the house.  Hops are unisexual and only the female hops are used for brewing, so hops are propagated taking root cuttings and planting them in another site.  I ordered my rhizomes through a site called [...]

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned that I would be giving a presentation on buildout at a Plone Symposium at Penn State.  The video of that presentation is now available online.

Science Fiction and Fantasy publisher Tor has been running a promotion for a new web site they will be launching called “Watch the Skies.”  (I believe that this is the name of both the promotion and the coming web site.)  The new site sounds great.  It sounds like Tor is looking to make the premier [...]

The tornado that hit Atlanta got a lot of news, so I think a lot of people will be wondering about it.  First off, Susannah and I were not anywhere near Atlanta when it hit.  We were in Pennsylvania at the time.  When we returned home, we found the house that we live in unharmed [...]