Climate change!

If the climate change deniers are right, why is it the middle of June and I’ve just turned on the heating? I know Germany’s a cold country, but give me a break… Anyone who thinks this is normal can only be classified as a lunatic. This is one position where …

Catastrophe Averted (more or less)

WordPress 3.0 is out, and I’ve been busy updating this site and Commentarium. I’d been meaning to renovate Commentarium a little to make it more user-friendly, and updating to the newest version of WordPress was meant to be the first step; then, my luck being what it is, I broke …

Fun Stuff

Here’s a variety of updates: I’d like to write more about fun stuff on this website. Lately it’s become too much about politics and my projects; not that these aren’t valid subjects, or the things I spend most of my time thinking about, but there’s more to the world. (If …

Organize

This is part of an email I got the other day: Down here in Australia our government has kindly brought in laws that make all union activity in the construction sector illegal, unless it’s expressly related to legally sanctioned Enterprise Bargaining Agreement negotiations. The Australian Building and Construction Commission was …

On the subject of video game movies

Things have been a little quiet at Commentarium recently, mostly because we’ve been very busy working. I know some people are still waiting for my long-delayed (and very long) Avatar article, though right now I’m considering waiting until the re-release in August. We’ll see. It’s still very important to me. …

The Urthona Revolution

Say, didn’t you have this story lying around called The Urthona Revolution? Yes… it was a good story, but for a number of reasons never turned into a game. And didn’t you keep complaining about wanting to do some kind of episodic storytelling? Yes, because I felt it would do …

A Stray to Botaram

Oddly enough, occasional donations have started coming in. Not many (I think there were four so far) – I don’t want you to imagine that I’m starting to making a profit off this website – but still more than in the last ten years. And I appreciate these very, very …

Freedom Flotilla

The European Union called the event a tragedy. Somehow that doesn’t sound quite right to me. A heavily armed military force attacks ships in international waters and butchers peace activists? There must be a better word. Like piracy. Or murder. Or war crime.