Archive for December, 2005

The Big Move and Old Employers

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Yesterday was long and exhausting. My wife, her brother, and I were busy moving all day. I know I’ve said it before, but you never realize how much stuff you own until you’re forced to move it all at once. Despite the tiresome hassle, however, I am confident that the whole ordeal [...]

Essential Arcane Talents

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Having reached a point where resting my warlock is a matter of necessity, I decided to give my old mage Brodix another try, this time respeccing him with arcane talents. He had grown very unwieldy by the time I stopped playing him last, and it was my hope that this would make him viable [...]

Dark Dungeons Propaganda

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

I recently came across an online copy of some anti-D&D propaganda entitled Dark Dungeons. I find it hard to believe that this sort of heavily-slanted dribble could ever convince anyone with half a brain cell that there is any connection between a roleplaying game and the occult. To anyone with enough sense to [...]

Holiday Replay

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

There is an interesting aspect to marriage that I failed to fully appreciate until this weekend. Specifically, when you get married, you are no longer a member of only one family. As one would expect, this can complicate things around the holidays when it is expected for you to go socialize with relatives. [...]

Project Paradox v4.0

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Say hello to the new sleek, dynamic Project Paradox. This latest installment comes after months of planning and testing, not to mention a bit of work in PhotoShop. The entire site will now function off of the WordPress blogging engine, customized to suit my own tastes, of course.
Among the many new features that [...]

Apartment Woes and Holiday Deception

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Well, today didn’t start out that great. We found out that, in fact, we didn’t get the apartment for which we had been hoping. My wife was inconsolable. However, after working through it with her grandparents, we managed to work out a new deal with the leasing office and will be moving [...]

Nervous Anticipation

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Yesterday was a full day for my family and I. We went up to where I’d be working, signed papers for the job, and had lunch with the folks who hired me. Afterward, we went in search of apartments nearby. By the time we got home, everyone was exhausted. Nonetheless, my [...]

The Search is Over

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

For a few weeks now, I’ve been telling my family with a sort of morbid humor that the only item on my Christmas list was a new job. As it turns out, that’s exactly what I’m getting. After several months of searching, the employers for whom my wife and I had been hoping [...]

HTML Basics

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

So you want to make a web page, huh? After all, everyone’s got them these days. It’s no wonder, either. The basics of web design are easy to understand and can, for the most part, be learned in one sitting.
Let’s start out with the obvious question: What are web pages made [...]

Webrings

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Depending on what sort of webmaster you ask, traffic is either the highest or one of the highest priorities for a good website. After all, all the content in the world is worthless if you don’t have any visitors to see it. There are, of course, a number of ways to increase your hits. Some [...]