The Ghost without a Shell

Started with a million, still writing...

Sunday, 24 April 2016

Strategygamecon - a new four day convention in England

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There have been a few people asking in recent weeks if I know anything about Strategygamecon, a new four day convention being held in Te...
Friday, 22 April 2016

On conventions in general, and of course, Longcon 2

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So radio silence for more than a month and very little presence on most websites, forums, or other places where I'm normally to be f...
Thursday, 17 March 2016

Good things today and yesterday, and tuesday...

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Tuesday is rapidly turning into work followed by long Expo meeting day, which means that updates are going to be on wednesday at some point ...
Monday, 14 March 2016

Book review - 253

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Every once in a while, you encounter a book that's different from any other book you've read. I found 253 on a friends readin...

A year of good things...

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So the good thing today was clearing several items off the do list, most notably three book submissions to publishers and then completing th...
Sunday, 13 March 2016

And the good thing for today...

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Actually, there were a few, which for a weekend is a really big thing... I finished off Dava Sobels Longitude and got a review done. I f...

Book Review - Longitude – The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time.

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Not well known of my interests is that of the oceans of the world, I do not speak much of it and given that I live in a landlocked area ...
Saturday, 12 March 2016

And a good thing today...

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I watched an episode of Leverage with Jude and helped Mark dislodge a sim card from a phone... May not seem like much? You know, on some...

Game Review - Ten Candles

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In gaming, every once in a while, you need to broaden your horizons and take a look on the other side of the fence to see what everyone...
Friday, 11 March 2016

And the good thing for today...

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I got to spend some time with my son, and you forget how precious those minutes are until you don't have them every day, and then every ...

Book Review - "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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I've read a few books on writing in my time, some of them I've read more than once, and some of them I've got halfway through...
Thursday, 10 March 2016

A year of good things...And a review of Colt Express

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So today was mostly about Expo, as are many days recently, but we've got the Cthulhu masters locked down and that'll be coming on...
Wednesday, 9 March 2016

A year of good things - Tuesday and Wednesday

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On Tuesday I was up very late with an Expo meeting (till 01:30 in the morning), and didn't post anything as a result. However... On ...
Monday, 7 March 2016

A year of good things - Day Seven - What's the inverse of the Bechdel test...?

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Todays good thing is that I finished re-editting Jerusalem, the first full length novel that I ever wrote. It's been through a numb...
Sunday, 6 March 2016

And a kickstarter I'm really looking forwards to...Control...

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Because not only did they have a good campaign, well executed with clarity, but they were also willing to put their money where their mouth ...

A year of doing good things - Day six

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And today, being mothers days, my good thing was that I went and got mum loads of scented candles (This is only two of them, there were ...
Saturday, 5 March 2016

And I'm sorry to report that I'm abandoning another Kickstarter...

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This time it's Into the Shadows lovecraftian fate RPG, and while I only backed it at a low level, there's a pattern to kickstart...

A year of good things - Day Five

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And what good thing did I do today? I got tiny wife some leaf grabbers... Shiny But Beware...
Friday, 4 March 2016

A Year of good things...

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And Keeping up with the good year thing... Today... Finished the review of Gangbusters Cleared up a lot of Expo tournaments Caught up ...

Game Review - Gangbusters: Wrid Tales and Paranormal Investigations.

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There will be some out there who remember the first Gangbusters game, set in the Prohibition era, with the players taking on gangs and ...
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