I have been pursuing some non-online interests of late including my health and taking photos

Please excuse the recent dearth of posts – I have had some non-swine related health issues.
Normal service to resume shortly, if all goes well, including the fabulous tale of travellers from a far flung outpost voyaging to the New Rome just as the empire begins its decline and fall (translation: we are going to the [...]

Commenting should be restored to some sort of functionality with the use of a name and email address for now (not displayed) while I continue my epic battle to get recaptcha working.

Until recently, commenting has been restricted to registered users due to the ridiculous torrent of spam which any website automatically attracts.  Before registration was required, I was using Akismet, which was fairly effective, as in it caught 99.9%.  Despite Akismet’s valiant attempts, the sheer volume of spam meant that a lot was making its way [...]

Well, clearly I got sick of actually writing anything here with any regularity. Apart from anything else, there are 50 trillion blogs out there, all of which are written by people who want people to read theirs rather than wanting to read other people’s writing (understandably, I suppose, we all just want to be [...]

Limited/no updates this week, as your author is stuck in Sydney, home of the homeless.
Well, I’m stranded in the city that never sleeps
Some of these women they just give me the creeps
I’m avoidin’ the Southside the best I can
These memories I got, they can strangle a man
Well I came ashore in the dead of the [...]

The lack of updates has been caused by your author’s temporary secondment to the home of closed supermarkets, icy wind and poorly dressed civil servants, Canberra.

 
We live in a political world
In the cities of lonesome fear,
Little by little you turn in the middle
But you’re never why you’re here

I’m currently in the process of upgrading both Wordpress and the blog’s theme (which is a customised version of the awesome Unsleepable theme, for anyone that cares). There may be a few teething problems, so bear with me.
Please let me know if you notice anything awry. One issue I am already aware of [...]

I’ve updated the layout somewhat so that longer stories are now abbreviated on the front page – hopefully this makes the site a bit more readable. If something interests you, just click the link to read on. If not, well, I guess it’s even easier to ignore now.
I have also been testing the [...]

As a result of the infinite joys of spam, the comment system is unfortunately going to require a name and email address – which will naturally not be used for anything other than comment moderation, published, disclosed to any third party, and so on and so on.  In addition the first comment for a given [...]

A brief note to say that I will be clarifying the point of this place in the not-too-distant future. You can possibly look forward to some sort of underlying philosophy behind what’s posted here, including the reason why the dice are loaded. Or possibly not. In the meantime I appreciate your comments and feedback, you [...]