http://blogs.cloudwisp.net/rols All Aboard Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:59:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In an age of Iron clad warlords and peasant fodder, of warfare and cruelty, the story follows a young boy by the name of Wart, an orphan who is adopted by Sir Ector, whose estate is on the edge of the vast Sherwood Forest. The book is written from the point ... http://blogs.cloudwisp.net/rols/2008/11/02/review-the-once-and-future-king/ I had told myself that when Warhammer: Age of Reckoning (online MMORPG) comes out, I would try it out. I had spent a few years of my life playing Mythic Entertainment's last game Dark Age of Camelot, and my hopes were of a new RPG which borrowed something from Dark ... http://blogs.cloudwisp.net/rols/2008/09/21/into-the-battle/ I have just installed a plugin to embed flash files into blog posts. A more productive use of the plugin can be found on Lei's blog (check the blog roll), but here is a test... http://blogs.cloudwisp.net/rols/2008/09/14/flashy-shannanigans-from-strongbadia/ When I stare up at the sky at night, through the smog and light pollution I see part of the vast cosmos laid out before me. The insignificance of our lives becomes apparent when placed alongside the birth and death of stars and galaxies. I discovered something last week, something I'd ... http://blogs.cloudwisp.net/rols/2008/08/10/twinke-twinkle-little-star/ Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is the descent. As the world comes to the realisation that the global supply of oil is on a downward trend, the population will have to adapt to a changing context in which to live their lives. If the current rate of increase ... http://blogs.cloudwisp.net/rols/2008/07/06/climbing-down-from-mount-crude/ A well dressed man reaches into the garbage to pick out the daily news. Not the first time for him. It is a man not afraid of the microscopic life that enters his body. Is he laughing in the face of danger? Or is the average trash can cleaner than we ... http://blogs.cloudwisp.net/rols/2008/06/05/recycled-news/ As the winds and rain roar around us the sounds of political chatter emanates from the T.V. I listen on and off, with waning interest. The American political system is as tedious as I have ever seen. By the time they reach the actual election, I imagine most people have stopped ... http://blogs.cloudwisp.net/rols/2008/05/17/wind-and-rain-in-a-twilight-orange/ It's caught me by surprise, snapped me up in it's jaws. The crocodile is the workplace, and I'll be eaten and digested until i'm 60 when I retire in a heap in the warm breeze. No! I can fight my way out of the belly of the beast and break free into ... http://blogs.cloudwisp.net/rols/2008/05/13/in-the-mouth-of-a-crocodile/ rejected by the night. . . As the train wobbles from side on the old bent up track, the muffled sound of the driver invades my ears. I struggle to hear the music from my ipod, my fingers pushing the white buds deeper into my ears. The pilot of this great ... http://blogs.cloudwisp.net/rols/2008/05/07/the-sky-is-on-fire/ yes that's what i'd be if i didn't find a seat. I just liked the aliteration I spent the last couple of days trying to find and modify a theme just right for the main blog site. I think i've made a keeper for now. Check it out here It takes ... http://blogs.cloudwisp.net/rols/2008/05/01/towering-in-transit/