(On some Instinctual level I think that title is way too long)

A Twittering Individual who followed me of late peaked my “Who be this?” twitch and I stumbled on an entry about an entry that was about (what appears to be…) a currently raging debate on the various Twitter-like services out there. I ended up commenting on that entry and then the origin because it seemed appropriate but since I expressed a more rounded view than I thought I had on the matter I’m making an oh-so dangerous posting here. The Gaping Void post.

The general feel I have for services like Twitter is that they provide a very easy and very simple way to get the information and thoughts out there for people who don’t want the responsibility of running a blog, want to avoid the invasive data-mining of the social network and very quickly fire off something witty, something silly, something topical or genuinely answer that all important Twitter question… What are you doing?
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I got distracted and ended up doing a new logo… I really, really liked the old one but it was consistently misleading with ‘Muggles’ as a buzz word for wizarding fans around the world. The new one took a whole lot of tweaking, I have been having monitor calibration woes on/off for awhile so I really hope it displays as true to form as possible.

If it helps the old logo was thus:

This currently means I still owe my two-three readers two comics/pretty-things and some decent blog entries. I shall try to do this buuuutttt… there is a copy of the oh-so-lovely ‘Mark of Chaos’ that needs dealing with defeating… I am but a mortal man, with mortal game playing needs.
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At some point in the last year or so I became a roleplayer, I suppose I was always in a precarious position and vulnerable to such sociable means of generating stories… and roleplay at its core draws from a desire to weave or partake in a collective fiction.
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Little has changed since CR#6 as I have had very little time to enjoy Pattern Recognition which I am close to finishing off at last… I am mostly eager to begin devouring a work that I have been needing to read for some time, mostly ever since a tutor referred to me as the Scarlet Pimpernel.

In some respects Pattern Recognition is becoming a firm favourite for me in regards to William Gibson, it just feels very at home in the current social climate.

I’ve recently managed to watch the Earthsea attempt that the Sci-Fi channel made and despite my alarm at the trailer it wasn’t quite as BAD as I thought it would be, I read the Earthsea Quartet at such a young age that I was hazy on enough of the plot to not be irritated by anything I saw before me…

However I know really want to read all four again and I haven’t got my own copy. *sigh*
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