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I first got into proto-blogging around 1998, during the first iteration of Dustrunners. I had a Blogger blog back when it launched, but those posts are lost to time now. But here you will find the 628 posts I've written since 2003. There are some gaps in there. Lots of gaps. But if you were ever curious to see the evolution of insanity, here's your chance.
Nothing here matches that. The tags in the margin group these posts by project, and the site map lists everything by hand.
2021 34
- Dogs and Seizures
- The Thing About Hours
- Thinkings About CSS
- My Kid Made Music
- Oh hey! A production slate!
- Mid-Mortem: Bytown
- Cœur de pirate: Perséides
- Milestone: New Site is Live
- Canadian Content, Again
- Dreams Come True
- Oh Oscars...
- Why I was hiding
- Publishing Polyfill #2: Market Research
- Ramp Up Starts...Now
- Publishing Polyfill #1: Managers
- On Validation
- Day of Pink
- Toward Another Next Kind of Publishing
- Journalists and the Mob
- The Nevers and Joss Whedon's Shadow
- Mortal Kombat Theme? Gah!
- Wild Ottawa Hyperlapse
- Using CSS Vars to Colour Objects
- Blockville Lives
- Robin Skouteris' Daft Punk Megamix
- Belgravia: Opening Titles
- Why Does "This Is Us" Kick My Ass So Easily?
- Writery Bits: Rise and Fall
- Amanda Gorman: Pure Genius
- Bridgerton Followup
- What Is the State of Our Union?
- Bridgerton: I mean WTF?
- History Moments
- Well Now...
2020 75
- On Diversity in Historical Dramas
- My Opinion Policy
- Lower Decks: Chris Westlake You Mad Genius You
- Bytown Update
- Bytown: Three White Candles
- Bytown e6: Ugly Rabbit
- Star Trek: Lower Decks is...Good?
- I am not an artist (What is reality?)
- Bytown Episode 5 Postmortem
- Meet Peppa!
- Bytown e5: You Broke Me
- Bytown Episode 4 Postmortem
- Happy Graduation Day
- Bytown e4: Cruel Chivalry
- Bytown Episode 3 Postmortem
- Bytown Cover Alternatives: Choose One
- Bytown e3c13: People Could’ve Died
- Bytown e3c12: Turn Back, Love
- Bytown e3c11: You Can’t Have Both
- Bytown e3c10: A Most Unexpected Villain
- Bytown e3c9: Your Best Life
- Bytown e3c8: Blind Hatred
- Bytown e3c7: Climb That Tree
- Bytown e3c6: The Bastard Grew Courage
- Bytown Business Model
- Bytown e3c5: You Think He’s the One?
- Bytown e3c4: You Can’t Leave Me Here
- Bytown e3c3: Now You Care
- Bytown e3c2: Quietly, Quietly
- Programming Note: Bytown Switch
- Bytown e3c1: Don’t Leave Me
- B-Sides: Wilderness
- Bytown Episode 2 Postmortem
- Bytown e2c13: There’s No Choice Involved
- Bytown e2c12: Tell Me Not To
- Bytown e2c11: Ten Breaths Past Her Husband’s Demise
- B-Sides: McClintock's Man
- Bytown e2c10: There Is No Elsewhere
- Bytown e2c9: Strangers Making Promises
- Bytown e2c8: Starboard Dive
- B-Sides: He's a Hero
- Bytown e2c7: When Do We Leave?
- Bytown e2c6: I Don't Mean to Sound Abrasive
- Bytown e2c5: No Regard for Laws Nor Honour
- B-Sides: First Impulses
- Bytown e2c4: We've Just Gotta Survive
- Bytown e2c3: A Ditch by the River
- Bytown e2c2: Burying your trauma
- B-Sides: Chausson aux Pommes
- Bytown e2c1: No Wonder He’s Poor
- Bytown Episode 1 Postmortem
- Bytown e1c13: Something to Cause Outrage
- Bytown e1c12: Did You Kill Your Husband?
- B-Sides: Three Meals
- Bytown e1c11: You Took Him From Me
- Bytown e1c10: My Peers
- Bytown e1c9: We Can Just Go
- B-Sides: Slice
- Bytown e1c8: There Are Quicker Ways to Die
- Bytown e1c7: Good Irish Lads
- Bytown e1c6: Justice Takes Bravery
- Actual Pandemic: Yikes!
- B-Sides: What Needs Doing
- Bytown e1c5: A Message You Shall Be
- Bytown e1c4: After All, We're Irish
- Bytown e1c3: The Shed's No Place for a Woman
- B-Sides: Just Passing Through
- Bytown e1c2: A Quiet Life
- Bytown e1c1: It's a Long Damn Road to Perth
- Bytown Launches Today
- Topic Tag Returns
- Love in the Age of Coronavirus
- A Note About Sexuality
- Ghostwriting: More Fun Than It Sounds
- New Year, New Bad Idea
2019 40
- Robin Skouteris' PopLove 8
- Oki and Nobbin Day 30: The Road
- Oki and Nobbin Day 29: My Word
- Oki and Nobbin Day 28: Unto the Breach
- Oki and Nobbin Day 27: Once More
- Oki and Nobbin Day 26: Family of None
- Oki and Nobbin Day 25: Oops
- Oki and Nobbin Day 24: It Was You
- Oki and Nobbin Day 23: Quarantine
- Oki and Nobbin Day 22: Clueless
- Oki and Nobbin Day 21: Glob
- Oki and Nobbin Day 20: Egg Hunt
- Oki and Nobbin Day 19: Yeep
- Oki and Nobbin Day 18: Wiggle
- Oki and Nobbin Day 17: Eden
- Oki and Nobbin Day 16: Bad Bad Bad
- Oki and Nobbin Day 15: The Truth
- Oki and Nobbin Day 14: The Survivor
- Oki and Nobbin Day 13: Brandon
- Oki and Nobbin Day 12: Boots
- Oki and Nobbin Day 11: Twists and Turns
- Oki and Nobbin Day 10: Escape Plan
- Oki and Nobbin Day 9: The Pit of Servitude
- Oki and Nobbin Day 8: Bwap
- Oki and Nobbin Day 7: Fall Down
- Oki and Nobbin Day 6: Something Fishy
- Oki and Nobbin Day 5: Puzzles
- Oki and Nobbin Day 4: Odd Jobs
- Oki and Nobbin Day 3: Friends and Family
- Oki and Nobbin Day 2: Angry Potato
- Oki and Nobbin Day 1: Crash Bang Boom
- Oh Hai, Bastard
- Avengers: Endgame — Yes, OK, Good
- Unshared Reality
- Technically 'They'
- AAAC: Kim and Hamish
- AAAC Feedback
- Pick the Parents
- Introducing The Anti-Anti-Anti-Christs
- New Year, New Crazy
2018 19
- Robin Skouteris' PopLove 7
- Stalemate
- Happy Dog is Happy
- Meet Lucky
- Growing like Weeds
- Meet Pumpkin and Cinnamom
- Meet Todd
- Aphantasia and Me
- Meet Lulu
- Meet Nala
- Smart Person Interview: Diana Moore
- Mark your calendars
- Smart Person Interview: Jiro Okada (Part 2)
- Smart Person Interview: Jiro Okada (Part 1)
- All the pretty things
- On the verge of something shiny...
- WIP: Wobble
- Be a lab rat: Red, Like
- Oh hai, 2018
2017 31
- Robin Skouteris' PopLove 6
- Is 2017 almost over yet?
- In which everything starts to go wrong
- Focus is a tool of oppression wielded over the ooo shiny
- To sleep, perchance to finish a goddamn script...
- Screenplay Stages
- EVERYTHING IS DONE
- When this baby hits 88MPH...
- Oh, you sweet summer child
- Downward trajectory + bounce = ouch
- Story Structure 101
- Halp me I'm meltingggggg
- A great way to start the day... er, night
- More Rejected Story Ideas
- Cautiously optimistic about not combusting this week...
- I would feel old, but I'm too tired
- Overpacking Sentences
- More Rejected Story Ideas
- Goodbye, cruel world...
- The Exploding Hourglass
- Tangents (Map)
- One step forward, two steps sideways
- Rejected Story Ideas
- Ollie Vid: Sasquash Hunter
- Progress by imperceptible increments
- Risk the Queen Audiobook!
- True Vid: Great Grizmos!
- 3 Beat Start
- Go Watch True!
- True Launches Friday!
- Hit me baby ow no ok that's ok no stop
2016 2
2015 20
- Istanbul Sideways is Out
- These Blackened Waves is Out
- Refrigerator 6
- Twist: Cutest Little Thing is Out!
- The Bellhop Plot is Out
- Archivists: Valerie I is Out
- Martian Idiots is Out
- Refrigerator 5
- Risk the Queen is Out
- WMD#1 is Out
- The Threader in Autumn is Out
- Meet Valerie de Smedt
- Eviction Notice is Out
- Meet Jada Bolen
- Meet Lennie Carson
- Meet the Threader
- Meet Niko Joe
- More on Droplets
- Droplet Pitches
- Droplets are Coming
2013 14
2011 5
2010 63
- 2011 (Books, Sites and RollBots!)
- Observation of the day
- Polarity Wrap-up
- Last livewriting check-in
- Livewriting trivia time!
- Livewriting check-in again!
- Livewriting Day Two!
- Livewriting sleepytime bonus!
- Livewriting update!
- Oh my god I'm so tired
- Livewriting starts now
- Livewriting update!
- #3D1D Polarity Update
- An ad from the future
- Remembering CJ Schneider
- Xander in Print!
- Howto: eBooks+
- Howto: Book Samplers
- End of Arkady and Kain
- FanExpo 2010
- A&K Day 12 Recap
- Review: TimeSplash
- Turning the Page: An eBook Article
- A&K Day 11 Recap
- A&K Day 9&10 Recaps
- A&K Day 7&8 Recaps
- A&K Day 6 Recap
- A&K Day 5 Recap
- A&K Day 4 Recap
- A&K Day 3 Recap
- A&K Day 2 Recap
- A&K Day 1
- More Fans in the Rain
- How to Outline a Story
- Coming Up Next: Terrorism!
- 100 Fans In the Rain
- RollBots Recap: 126 "Paradigm Shift: Part 2"
- Warning: Writer's Suck
- Creative Recycling
- Religion and/or Copyright
- 8 ways the RIAA could help you survive a zombie outbreak
- Why Print is Bad for Indie Writers
- Broken Me
- Canadian Copyright, v251?
- The Dangers of Being Indie
- Cannibalism in Publishing
- Thoughts on Blast Radius
- Chronic Rift Interview!
- Making a Cover
- Our Love Story
- I Need Pictures
- Improving Publishing
- Rules for Livewriting
- Scarlet Lemming Recap and Voting (Day 1)
- Livewriting How-To
- Announcing The Scarlet Lemming!
- Uhopping Chapter 5: Electric
- Liveblog: iTablet Press Event
- The Man With the Improbable Leg
- Series Bibles
- Bad Bad Day
- What I Do
- Welcome to 2010
2009 132
- #refrigerator: 0 to go!
- Post #2D1D Post
- #2D1D The New Real
- Promotion Plans
- Free-e-Day: Typhoon
- Review: Her Fearful Symmetry
- Release #10: Xander and the Wind! (2 to go!)
- The Race Begins
- Hint #2
- 20080514052318050112
- Why Fancy eBooks Make Me Nervous
- Dustrunners Contest Winners
- Creative Commons Christmas Guide
- Monday Observations
- A Final Experiment
- Pre-Order #3D1D Typhoon
- Typhoon: Collector's Edition
- Fix Typhoon
- 3D1D Wrap Up
- 3D1D: The Premise
- RollBots Challenge Results
- Fission Chips Concludes
- I am special
- Where We Go From Here
- Indie Distribution Models?
- Why Your Content is Worthless
- The Al Dente Code
- Reader Mail: Untouched Experiment
- RollBots Challenge!
- A Note About Cycles
- A Minor Book-Making Note
- On Formats and Friction
- 1st Month Postmortem: The Vector
- Fission Chips Winner Day!
- The App Concludes
- A Moment of Cranky
- What do you do when you're nominated?
- Interesting Observations
- OMG RollBots Got Nominated
- Q&A With Craig Young
- Q&A With Brian Spaeth
- Reader Question: Letting Things Die
- I Can Help You Succeed at Publishing Online!
- Nicest Email Evar
- Announcing The Vector in Print
- Why Books Don't Need Pages
- Contest Time!
- Me on Novelr
- Quick Vector FAQ
- The Vector (6 to go!)
- The Chaos Book: Episode 1 Intro
- Disassembling the World (6)
- The Success of Free
- Disassembling the World (5)
- TorrentBoy: Pirates Attack!
- 10 Inspirational Quotes by Very Dead People
- A Q&A With Myself
- Book Premise Deathmatch
- Pig and the Box: 6 Month Review
- On Simulated Freedom
- Disassembling the World (4)
- Random Monday Thoughts
- Announcement Day (June 2009)
- Disassembling the World (3)
- Writing Adaptive Fiction
- 6 Reasons Twitter Won't Sell Your Widget
- Disassembling the World (2)
- Patronage 3.0 Follow-Up
- Patronage 3.0: Create-on-Demand
- Status Update
- Disassembling the World (1)
- Blook 0.1
- My Book Industry Blueprint (v0.2a1)
- Fission Chips (8 to go!)
- RollBots Recap: 113 "Nonlinear"
- More on the Doctorow Principle
- TorrentBoy: The Doctorow Conundrum
- Fission Chips Preview
- Tiny Random Updates
- RollBots Recap: 112 "Goaaaaal!"
- What's Wrong With Traditional Publishing
- 1st Month Postmortem: TorrentBoy: Zombie World!
- RollBots PreCap: 111 "#044"
- Actual life
- TorrentBoy Collaborative Novel / Outlining Fun
- RollBots PreCap: 110 "The Do Right Module"
- The source of 99% of my guilt
- Nearly-Mid-April Update
- RollBots Recap: 109 "Two Left Feet"
- RollBots Recap: 108 "Crontab Trouble"
- TorrentBoy Update: Coding is Hard
- Interesting Philosophical Predicament
- RollBots Recap: 107 "House Call"
- TorrentBoy Milestone: First Not-Me Sale!
- Quick FAQ on the TorrentBoy Project
- TorrentBoy: Zombie World! (9 to go!)
- RollBots Recap: 106 "Inside Outside Upside Down"
- 1st Month Postmortem: Poke of the Titans
- ThinkGeek Alert!
- RollBots Recap: 105 "The Koto Protocol"
- RollBots Special: Making Vertex
- The Green Chain in Vancouver!
- Q&A With MeiLin Miranda
- 1st Month Postmortem: Pig and the Box
- Fixing the Pig Book Model
- Clearances: Sucking the Fun out of Life
- Making a Show: Assets
- Making a Show: Outlines
- RollBots Recap: 104 "Scorched"
- Shortcovers: First impression
- Poke of the Titans (10 to go!)
- This is LeWar
- RollBots Recap: 103 "Wipeout"
- The Origins of SteamDuck (Part II)
- The Origins of SteamDuck (Part I)
- Very Early Percy Sketch
- Internet Blackout NZ
- RollBots Recap: 102 "Breakpoint"
- RollBots Online!
- "Why's your book free?"
- Re: RollBots Worthiness
- RollBots Early Art
- RollBots Recap: 101 "Training Day"
- RollBots in the Ottawa Citizen
- RollBots Premiere Recap
- The Pig Book Returns (11 to go!)
- Amateur vs Pro, Part III
- Creative Commons: NC or not to NC
- Two years later, DRM still not dead
- An iTunes for eBooks?
- How Long is Long Enough?
- 2009 is the Year of the Doing
2008 12
- Zero Punctuation vs Sonic
- RollBots Online Experience Launches
- Book Preview: Poke of the Titans
- Inside the Magic: Reviewing a Leica
- Stunningly Live WWDC 2008 Coverage
- Scientology Miffed at Anonymous
- MacWorld Keynote Coverage Recap
- Quick Notes: Scoble Bends MacBook Air
- Banners Confirm Apple Testing Airborne RDF “iBombs”
- Apple Confuses Dates, Releases Offerings Early
- Quick Notes: Paul in Surprise NH Victory, Clinton Breaks Down
- Toshiba Stuns CES With HD-DVD Breakthrough
2007 46
- Iran Caught Importing “Banned” Chemicals
- Microsoft Forgets to Innovate With IE8
- Wikipedia Cabal Rewriting History
- Apple Praised for Space-Shifting Initiative
- Monopoly Game Gets Modern Update
- Gaiman Tops Greenpeace’s Top 10 Polluting Artists List
- IGN Willing to Fire Reviewers Too, Says Management
- Pediatricians Recommend Tasers for Fevers
- Facebook Fights Social Faux-Pas With New TMI Feature
- Spammers Give Up, Says Google
- aXXo Tops Paul’s List of VP Candidates
- Lucas Furious Over Star Wars Leak
- Facebook “Microstatus” Feature Draws Fire
- God Blasts Blair’s “Nutter” Comment
- Anti-Piracy Organization Shuts Down Popular Website
- Experts Divided on “Star Wars” Shark-Jumping Controversy
- Amazon Sneaks World Domination Past Patent Office
- Bush Explodes Pardoned Turkey
- Jabberman Has Seen CLOVERFIELD And His Head Rolls Through New York!!!
- Yahoo Warns Microsoft Spy Has Gone Rogue
- Bush Bans Growing Skin, Baffles Scientists
- UK Donates 15M Private Records to Help Bolster Russian Economy
- US Military Covertly Deploying Luck in Iraq Since ‘05
- Movie Review: Rambo
- Leopard Review: Mac Nano Bugs
- Movie Review: The Golden Compass
- Dell Stops Selling More Than One Computer to Each Customer
- FEMA Fake Tip of the Iceberg?
- The Green Chain
- Merrily We Roll Along
- Animals Are Cute Sweeties
- On Digg and Numbers
- Coda: Fantastic Web Dev App
- International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day!
- 4 Easy Ways to Stop Your Site From Self-Destructing
- Pig Read Aloud!
- New Dumb Idea: Duckie McGee
- The Song From the Ze
- Canadian Content and the Internet Age
- Music 1.5!
- The Pig and the Box: Special Edition
- The Chasm and the Bridges
- Updated Self
- sniffle. Captain Copyright Passed Away
- Steve Jobs Would Ditch DRM "in a heartbeat"
- Read: How Corner Gas Ruined Everything
2006 54
- Skary Bloody Wonderful
- Rudeness in the World
- Drew on Stats
- More on Amanda at ABC and HBO
- The Ze in the NYT
- Amanda Congdon at HBO?
- The Tricky, Annoying Confusing World of Media (Old or New)
- Apple vs Microsoft in the Living Room
- It's Annoying :)
- Om Malik on the Universal/Zune Idiocy
- I Don't Understand This Rumsfeld Thing
- One Room Theory
- Compressing Video Well
- Did You Read the Post?
- Evil Speckly Emails
- Evil Panda Blues
- Form Eats Function (Disco Fever)
- Child's Play 2006
- Sports Racers, Racing Sports
- Blog Honour Pledging
- Google/Youtube: Details From the Inside
- Reddit Acquired?
- Swedish Pig is Done!
- Friday Post 1: Bloody Evil Bloody Hell
- Friday Post 2: Rocketbooming
- Closings and a Big Fat Oops
- Googley Fun
- Stumbling Back
- Long Night, Long Day, Long Month
- The Mind Boggles
- Everything is Late
- A Digger's Lament
- Pig in Italian in Italy
- Back to School
- Digg Goes Subscription!
- Pig and the Box The Movie!
- Viking Terror
- Pig Book For Sale
- Biplane to the Moon
- Crow Preview
- School My Way
- Free the Pig
- Digg: Dugg, Slashdotted and Boingboinged in 24 hours
- Last Pig Post
- Blender 2.4.2!
- Pig Redux
- New Rocketboom Online
- Sigh: Optimus Prime, eh?
- The Pig and the Box
- Arkady and Kain Ten Years Old
- Vector Back Cover Blurb
- Prior Art, Anyone?
- Fixing CBC
- Moving Like a Glacier
2005 24
- What Are Geek Morals?
- Dustrunners Fusion Brainstorming
- 1:00 am update
- 2:00 pm Update
- Are you the artist?
- 1:14 AM and all is well...
- 2 Hour Update
- Almost 8AM Update
- Aurora 6 Website
- Nnnno... coff...ff...ee
- Our objectives
- Powerbooks!
- What's the point?
- 2:00AM Update
- 3AM and I feel fine
- 4:00AM Update
- 4AM and I feel fine (still)
- 6AM Update
- The Day After...
- Update: '10':30PM
- Why Pay More?
- Project Orange @ Blender
- A Content Creator Meeting You Halfway
- Is Creative Commons Dangerous?
2004 49
- Saturday!
- Summer Festival
- Day Two (er... one?)
- In Japan
- Packin' up and leaving
- What is the style for LB?
- New merchandise, ideas
- 5p14t
- Animation question
- Speaking of series
- 24-hour Dotcom
- Architecture in MC
- Long Break of Silence
- P-P-P-Powerbook
- Geographic realities of MC
- Kaso
- Police
- Sell! Sell! Sell!
- Spet 42 Stun Gun
- Ya Moftary!
- Eh?
- Why "Liberty Bell"?
- Evolution of Liberty Bell
- Project Architecture v01
- FreeCity Project
- State of the world
- RRCC
- A quick synopsis
- Commercials
- FCP Location Spec 0.1
- Genre definition
- IP-12
- MCCS
- MCSS Infrastructure
- Political Foundations
- Software package (take one)
- Transfire
- Trodes
- May 30, 2004
- May 10, 2004
- Contribution Contract 1.0
- May 1, 2004
- April 28, 2004
- April 27, 2004
- April 24, 2004
- April 23, 2004
- April 20, 2004
- Building a Better Series