Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

As someone who has put up with a lot over the last few years and believes in generally treating people decently online and offline, I have to advocate trying to keep a positive attitude and walking away from most confrontations. Bite your tongue, turn the other cheek, and walk away. Disassociate with anyone who turns [...]

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. [...]

One thing I’ve done a lot of since my MBA finished was play Civilization 3 Complete. I spend too much time in front of the computer. I’ve blogged about it before, even attempted to rank the Civilizations for my playing style which is that of a peace-nik builder who devotes a lot of resources to [...]

I’m not sure why, but apparently someone who posts under the name “Zseni” has taken the text from my recent post about the movie “Black Snake Moan” which I thought looked cool and posted it to some forum. Maybe they don’t like Christina Ricci or Samuel Jackson. Maybe they don’t like movies. Maybe they don’t [...]

One of my technorati feeds turned up a mention of Nurgle in a Chinese blog. This shows just how many blogs there are in Chinese now. Soon half the blogs in the world will be in Chinese I imagine. Anyway my Chinese sucks. I still read many of the characters in Japanese first if I [...]