12-1-2009 I’m a Published Missions Author

I’m feeling pretty good this morning.  Had a nice bagel, sipping my coffee and going through the morning routine at work when I suddenly notice this:  my Shadowrun Missions adventure is now available for purchase!

This is actually very cool for me.  I’ve also contributed to the Manhattan: the Rotten Apple and an upcoming electronic book, but so did a number of other people.  This time, it was all me.  And, I’m not ashamed to say I’m a little proud of that!

Oops, I did it again…

Well, I’ve gone and done it again.  I’ve volunteered myself to start up a new online community for my local area out here in Illinois.  Should probably finish up my own web site before I go volunteering to do others.  Of course, I’d be doing all the up front labor on this new site in [...]

Posterous Testing

Still putting together some of the interesting social networking features that I've heard about recently.  For example, this post started as an email, got converted by posterous.com into a post there, and then (if everything worked out) turned into a blog post at dashifen.com, a message on facebook, and a tweet.  It's that last one [...]

Code Block Test #1

So, I’m a programmer.  It’s pretty much impossible that this blog won’t one day include information about the programming that I’m doing.  Thus, I though it’d be nice to try and make sure that I can put nicely structured and pretty code-blocks in my posts.  Here’s my first attempt at doing so:

Fifth Post

So I’m thinking of more of a banner for the newest post followed by four archival posts underneath in a 2×2 block.  That means, for testing purposes, I better have at least 5 posts in the database!