Blogcoven

Just finished playing Mass Effect 2. All that follows hereafter is peppered with spoilers for ME1 & ME2.
[Spoiler Warning - Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2]

I see cut price everything for sale these days – and some of them are frankly amazing – buy a space shuttle! Buy a missile silo! Buy all the cold war surplus modules that you need to build your own bond supervillains lair. Not that you’d want to, frankly the HR issues those Bond villains [...]

The perils of blogging and generally sending information out of the shadowy damp ecosystem of ‘within’ to ‘the general public’ has been reiterated to me by a tale told by one of the contractors. In the incestuous world of the corp consultancy jet set (I’m not part of that, I’m oilfield) there was a girl [...]

The book is more done now. It has an ending and better pacing and more focus. Enough of all the above? Unknown, to be confirmed through external channels. Though now I’ve found my endings I think I can more happily tweak the middle to point it in the right direction and lop off the bits [...]

Talking to colleague here – its the big ‘participation jamboree’ event thing which has nuked any notion of writing for near four days – I got roped into Chess which has just served to remind me why the chess I liked was coffee house chess. While discussing the inner machinations of the Monolith over some [...]