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2011 at Flash of Steel and Three Moves Ahead By the Numbers

January 1st, 2012 · 14 Comments · Blogs

Though I write for myself and would podcast for a few dozen, I am a statistics freak. So here’s how it looked for the blog and podcast in 2011. 2011 was the best year ever for visits and for downloads – in spite of me not writing much and me ceding first chair on the […]

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2011 on the Blog

December 31st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Blogs, Me

It has seemed liked every year for the last three has been a transitional year for some reason, and the blog always suffers a little. This year, with a change in city and profession, was more transitional than anticipated, so I played fewer games freshly, and was constrained in what I could really say about […]

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2011 Can Bite Me: End of Year Reflections

December 10th, 2011 · 12 Comments · Awards, Blogs, Me

Friends and acquaintances and colleagues know that the last couple of years have been pretty rough for me. Two Christmases ago, my father died. Last winter, my personal life underwent a great upheaval that is still not settled. And this year, a new job took me away from strategy gaming as intently as I once […]

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My Online Landscape

August 2nd, 2011 · 4 Comments · Blogs, Me

There are now too many ways to interact with people online. I am kind of happy that the Flash of Steel Facebook group never took off, because if it had, holy crap that would have been a mess. The big new thing, of course, is Google+ and I am still trying to find a way […]

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Blog Half Year Traffic Report

July 1st, 2011 · 3 Comments · Blogs

I didn’t blog nearly as much as I wanted to this year. My creative energies have been very job focused, and only now that I am settling in do I feel like I am ready to begin really unleashing my writing here. Plus the video series that I hope will premiere soon once I get […]

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Coming Soon

June 3rd, 2011 · 14 Comments · Blogs, FoSTV, Me

I am actually serious about this. I decided that I should dedicate part of my skills retraining to learning how to edit video. Nothing fancy, of course. I won’t be making trailers or mashing up love scenes from Troy to songs from Adele. But eventually I want to be able to splice video and audio, […]

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