The archives contains a bunch of posts I wrote between 1997 and 2011. The earliest posts from 1995 til 1997 are lost to time, and the site was mostly dormant from 2011 until 2025. As I've been rebuilding it, I've gone back and re-read all of these posts, and well, there's a lot of cringe in there. I'm a very different person now than I was when I wrote most of these. I was a hardcore Libertarian for most of that era, and very much into writing the edgy kinda stuff meant for pure shock value (twas a popular comedic form for quite a while, and good old autistic me jumped right on that bandwagon!) So yeah, lots of cringe-worthy shit in here that really doesn't reflect my views anymore. Still, it shows just how much I've changed over time, so I'm leaving it all here. The good, the bad, and the (sometimes very) ugly.
Oh, and I didn't save everything when I rebooted the site, the stuff omitted was mostly a bunch of old site news that wasn't particularly useful as it was just me ranting about whatever CMS I'd written that weeek to power my site. Yeah, I seriously rewrote the site engine a lot, LOL.
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2011-04-07 08:25
Everyone has hobbies, well almost everyone does anyway. Those who don't, really should. Hobbies help you stay relaxed. They also help keep you from going insane. Some people play sports, some collect things, some go fishing or hunting, and others yet let their creative juices flow. I'm one of the latter.
2011-04-01 13:10
So, I have a few ideas for some new stories. I always have a few ideas on the burner. Most of them aren't more than faint concepts with no real story. Other's are more well formed.
2010-02-14 00:11
So, if you've tried to visit this website between 2010-02-05 and 2010-02-13, you probably noticed that it had been replaced by a rather boring and empty page, that told a story about how I no longer had a server, and thus had given up on restoring the content from my former site (this one.) Well, I have yet to get the hard drive from my old server, so there may be some content missing on here, but I did find a fairly recent backup. Anyway, the circumstances behind the site moving, can be found by reading more of this article.
2010-01-25 11:24
I've been playing with Ruby lately, and am quite enjoying it. It seems like a very clean language, and has a lot of good features going for it as well, including testing frameworks such as RSpec and Cucumber. Being me, I wondered what a Perl 6 version would look like. Also being me, I decided that the best way to find out, would be to write it.
2010-01-13 12:18
Not sure if you've ever needed to rename a hash key before, but I have. I also noticed that it doesn't look like any of the languages I work with have a native method/function to rename hash keys. So, I've taken the liberty to write them. These are just for fun, and are released as public domain code snippets, feel free to use them in whatever you want. There are versions for Perl 6, Ruby, Perl 5 and Python. Enjoy!
2009-12-29 15:47
This is related to the last update I had on my writing projects, and offers a small glimpse of what is to come. In the full article I have some details on what I'm planning to do to expand my short story, A Snake in the Garden of Eden, as well as a very small excerpt from my planned micro-fiction series The Ark, and a concept pitch for another series of short fiction called Gates. If you like short science fiction stories, read the rest.
2009-12-09 11:18
So, yesterday the Perl 6 Advent Calendar had a challenge, to make a decent version of the ancient Caesar Cipher. Well, while looking into that, I found an article about the Vigenère cipher and thought, hey, that could be interesting. Further searches revealed that there was already a Perl 5 module that had been designed to implement the cipher. I took it upon myself to port Crypt::Vigenere to Perl 6, and think the results are pretty cool. It's not a CPAN-ready module by any stretch, but it gives you an idea of what is possible using Perl 6, right now, today.
2009-09-11 13:21
My Dad was a strong man. A funny man. A firey-tempered man. A man who could laugh. A man who could cry. A man who could whisper. A man who could yell. A man who could teach. A man who could love.
2009-06-25 17:11
Well, June 22nd was my off-the-net 30th birthday. It was good not staring at a computer screen all day. Anyway, at least I was getting another year older. The very next day we lost Ed McMahon, and today he was joined by Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Sad losses, all of them.
2009-06-02 11:04
Thinking recently about the Omnique Way, and some of the concepts like Voluntary Society and Community Standards. One of the cornerstones of the concept is the idea that you could have a community of theodemocratic communists mixed in the middle of a community of technocratic capitalists. This is very similar to the concept of Panarchism, which I endorse as its own standalone movement outside the scope of the Omnique Way. Anyway, this is just a brain dump, I'll expand out my thoughts later in a proper article. Until then, be free!