Blog Post Archive
I’ve been blogging casually off-and-on for years. The views expressed in these posts are from a more immature and inexperienced version of myself. They don’t necessarily represent the current views of anyone.
Do Not Track Support
Published 28 June 2017
Came upon a neat EFF page describing privacy
best practices for working with Privacy Badger
and similar tools, so I figured it's no big…
Housekeeping
Published 23 December 2015
Thought I'd brush off the dust and add a quick note with some updates, as I've done a little housekeeping around the site. I've moved the…
There is no off-season: NFL.com’s move to YUI
Published 15 January 2012
Back in November I gave a talk at YUIConf about the NFL's move from Prototype to YUI. Shamefully late, I present my slides from the event…
D&D 4E Fast Combat House Rules
Published 13 August 2011
The following house rules are an attempt to speed up 4E D&D combat and make games more fast-paced, interactive and fun. It also allows a…
How I post things to the Internet
Published 17 April 2011
I submit the following diagram somewhat ironically, perhaps as an explanation as to why these pages are so bare. I've found myself a member of so many status, friendship, check-in and sharing-focused services that it's hard to keep them sorted. WordPress, through no fault of its own, has fallen out of my workflow.
You Needy Bastard: WoW need vs. greed etiquette
Published 8 March 2011
Do I need an item? Did they verb the word greed? The Need vs. Greed treasure interface can be confusing to a new player who isn't used to it…
Hearts in Shadow
Published 12 September 2010
The teaser for my new adventure has been posted on Living Forgotten Realms group site. To tease the teaser: " This ring was found in an old…
Harry Potter is just a Buffy Redux
Published 6 July 2009
Brian Lynch showed us that 30 Rock is a rip-off of the Muppets,
but the Tina Fey comedy is not the only show with bizarre parallels to another.
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, both released the same year, are eerily similar. The parallels cannot be intentional, but let me present the evidence and you can be the judge.
What follows is a comparison of several major and minor characters in
both the novels and the series describing the roles they play. Could so much similarity be coincidence?
Parsing Your Character's Loot
Published 1 July 2009
Here's a quick teaser for a new project I'm working on, almost ready for public beta. Character files from D&DI Character Builder store…