I was a lovely sunny friday afternoon when I decided it was about time I had a good crack at this blogging thing. To that end I decided to come back here and upgrade my Wordpress install to 2.7.1 and because I’m a total newb when it comes to web related things and thus – I overwrote my old blog. Hell it was only 3 posts so I guess it’s no great loss.

The reason for this newfound desire to blog? Well, alot of my fellow bloggers (at least the ones I chat with regularly) are also podcasters and they are very very good podcasters. But that does, even by their own admission, leave their blogs to neglect after they’ve said all they wanted to say on the podcast.  Now, I’m a cohost on the (AWESOME) Limited Edition podcast, over at the VirginWorlds Collective which focuses primarily on comicbooks and comic-related IPs in the gaming world (things like Champions Online, City of Heroes/Villains, DCUO etc), though we’ll chat about most of anything really. My initial role on the podcast was to provide the “newbie” perspective against John’s wild enthusiasm and Stephen’s encyclopaedic knowledge and initially I did a respectable job in going “WTF?!”. The problem is, I’ve been brought up, or brought myself up I should say, on novels. Lots and lots of novels. I read all the time in school (even when I should not have) and I continue to read afew dozen pages of something every night before sleep. I read scientific journals, the news, blogs, epic patchnotes, novels, texts (though not the ones related to the topic I’m studying), all the fluff in the Warhammer 40K rulebook etc etc. I just enjoy reading. Which does not lend itself to enjoying comicbooks. I’m so used to interpreting a story in my mind, I just cannot get into a comicbook where it is all provided for me on a glossy platter.

So this is where I’ll be talking about things that wouldn’t quite fit on the podcast. I love doing podcasts, especially Limited Edition with John and Stephen. I find the format to be enjoyable both in it’s format and the scope (I find it much easier to communicate in speech than in text – more so than might seem obvious due to the wonderful nature of my addled brain). That being said – I’m very passionate about computer games in general (not just ones relating to comic IPs) and a myriad of other topics that may or may not have anything todo with computers at all, let alone gaming.

So over the next week or so, I shall be making regular updates (hopefully one a day) until I’ve covered abit of my background, where I’m at right now and where I’m going. Along with afew things which have been hiding in the back of my mind for awhile now.

Before I go, I implore all readers who haven’t (and even those that have) to visit www.yellowspandex.com, totheblogmobile.com, www.virginworlds.com, www.vanhemlock.com and www.massively.com .

These are maintained by some great bloggers and are certainly in my daily-visit catergory of sites