Swimming in Estrogen C’ – Chapter One
Why are bad ideas only bad in hindsight? It was a thought upon which he could wax philosophic, except that, at the moment, poor Solara was slowly spinning in the…
Reckonings – Epilogue
When the outworlder known as Feldmarschal had been banished from Askara, the planetary security authority promised that he would be shot on sight if he ever returned. Once he had…
Reckonings – Chapter Seven
Feld opened his eyes underwater and watched the bubbles of his dying gasp float away to freedom. He was barely aware of the pain in his jaw, the gash on…
Reckonings – Chapter Six
The hot Askaran sun beat down on the men and women of 467th Valkian Penal Battalion. Dressed in irregular uniforms and armed with stun rifles and grenades, the battalion was…
Reckonings – Chapter Five
Captain Mathieu Fontaine did not survive The Askaran Betrayal War. Following his capture of T’Malka A’Qarth, Empress of Thuun, in the Battle for Thuunvaal, he succumbed to a violent counterattack…
Rogues and Other Means to an End – Chapter One
Everything has a name. Most things have several. Rogue asteroid RA-2061-07-yada-yada-yada was named and categorized by the Federated Organization Charting Unexplored Space (FOCUS), an organization formed during the early days…
Reckonings – Chapter Four
By the time planetary species develop the technology for interstellar space travel, their societies usually have become more or less unified. Whether this is due to the supreme effort and…
Homelabbing #3: Adventures in Ruby
Ruby is a 30 year old programming language designed and developed, primarily, by Yukihiro Matsumoto. It is a scripting language, meaning that code is interpreted vs. compiled. It is my…
Reckonings – Chapter Three
At last, after an eternity of walking, Feld realized where he was. As the darkness surrendered to grayish light, the details hidden from view were revealed. He was in an…
Tech Corner: The Crux Web Application Server
Back in the early 2000s, blogs were becoming a thing and WordPress was becoming quite popular as a blog software platform. It was some time in 2004 or so that…