Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I learned long ago the dangers of electronic communication and just how debilitating mental illness can be. Depression isn’t something I talk about much, though there was an extended period when I wrote too much about the difficulties I was having and how I just couldn’t make people see how much they were hurting me. [...]

And why do he and his buddies over at Caltrops.com find this acceptable online behaviour? Until this week I’d never bothered to read Caltrops.com or really look into who was running the website and why the hell they think they are so damn clever and superior to the rest of us lesser Internet users. Fussbett [...]

Fussbett Sanitario, who claims to be Wagner James Au, Twitter handle @slhamlet, and the most powerful Second Life journalist of 2007 and his buddies on Caltrops.com, an unremarkable online forum, decided it would be amusing to select a random blogger and ridicule him. It was deemed necessary to start an entire thread on Caltrops.com devoted [...]

About a week ago the iPhone App for Fitocracy, a niche social network, that tries to ‘gamify’ fitness came out. Prior to it’s release I used two other iPhone apps to track my workouts then I would dutifully enter the information into the Fitocracy website in order to earn points, badges, and the props of [...]

I’ve actually already written more than one thousand blog postings, but some have been removed and some were posted elsewhere. There isn’t a prize for spending this much time online, but there is probably a badge for it over on Foursquare. As I noticed this somewhat dubious milestone approaching I figured I should mark the [...]