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| What's this site all about? | This site is all about my various and diverse interests. Well, at least the ones I care to share with the world. What you won't find around here is blathery blogging, items for sale or material poached from other, more interesting sites. What you will find is wittily documented episodes of my personal and family history, experiments and creative ventures. You might get a chuckle out of the site, or you might learn something, or you might even be inspired to try something I've tried, just to show me up. There's an interactive forum where you can give me feedback about the site, say hello, or just leave your mark on the internet. This Month's Feature
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|  BESIEGED Or How to Get Out of a Castle... My latest adventure game is now released! Help the lowly Dung Shoveler break the siege and win the girl in this wacky medieval adventure game. You can read more about it and download it for free on the GAMES page. December 5, 2008: A little Flash programming and a little daughter combine into a pint sized slideshow on the People Page
| November 30, 2008: BESIEGED, my latest adventure game, is released. Check it out on the Games Page.
| March 27, 2008: The 2008 Easter Egg Competition results are now online! Check them out on the People page.
| December 31, 2007: Bookshelf building and the new house: check it out on the Projects Page.
| September 3, 2007: I've finally got around to posting some of my Old Nipissing Road ghost town pictures on the Projects Page.
| July 17, 2007: Charlie Foxtrot & The Galaxy of Tomorrow is released at last! Download this zany adventure game on the Games Page.
| July 6, 2007: The last two years' worth of Easter egg competitions have finally been posted on the People Page.
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|   An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power. by John Steele Gordon | I would not have purchased this book but for the laws of supply and demand: it was regularly $37 but marked down to just $7 in the discount bin of my local independent book seller. It was actually a surpisingly good book, well researched and quite readable. The narrative follows the economic development of the early colonies through the Revolution and to the new millenium, from Virginia's tobacco boom and the Carolina's rice industry to New England shipbuilding and New York's rise to financial suppremacy. Whaling, cotton, railroads and oil: they're all there. I particularly liked the case studies of the herculanean inventors and small-timers making their fortunes in the nineteenth century. The twentieth century was more about government policy (yawn), but overall it was an interesting read. Click Here for Other Recent Reads...
November 30, 2008 Released BESIEGED, my latest adventure game. | October 4, 2008 Watched the Hurricane get hitched. April 29, 2008 Became a full-time supply teacher. March 22, 2008 Participated in Family Easter Egg competition. March 2, 2008 Welcomed Magdalen to the family. | ||||||||||||||||