And away we go...!

It took me longer than I intended, but I have transferred over all my posts and comments here to their new home on Wordpress.

The new address for my blog is: http://zombie4hire.wordpress.com

Henceforth, new posts will appear there (and only there).

Excuse me while I get out the boxes

So, last week, Blogger had a whole mess of problems that resulted in them rolling back all blogspot blogs to an earlier state. Long story short, I lost a post I was happy with and haven't posted in the last week in the hopes that they would be able to restore it.

No dice.

I've commented in all the help forums, filled out all their forms and have gotten zero response. So, I'm done waiting.

While I've been waiting for this situation to settle out, I've been checking out Wordpress. Quite frankly, I like their system for creating, editing, and managing a blog much more than what is available through Blogger. I've decided this whole fiasco gives me the perfect impetus to jump ship.

There will be about another week or so of low/no posting on the blog while I transfer everything over to a new home on Wordpress. I'd post the address here, but I'm currently considering purchasing a domain name just to make finding the blog all the easier, so I can't say for sure right now whether the new blog will be at zombie4hire.wordpress.com or zombie-4-hire.com . Once I have everything set up and ready (next week sometime). I'll post the link in a new post.

See you then!

Well, that sucked... sucks.

As some of you are no doubt aware, Blogger had some problems after routine maintenance on Wednesday. This resulted in all Blogger users being locked out of all their tools for the better part of 24 hours. They started restoring everything early this morning. Obviously, I am once again able to post and edit my blog.

Unfortunately, they restored to the status of Blogger as of 7:37am PDT on Weds, 5/11. Which means I've lost an entire post that I was really happy with, not to mention some cosmetic edits on some other posts. They have said that they'll be restoring the posts that were removed, but I'm going to hold off on making any changes or new posts until I know whether I'm getting those lost changes back.

Honestly, I'm seriously thinking about switching over to a different host. This is ridiculous.

A New Feature!

As I write more and more posts, I come across more and more terms that may need to be defined for some. So, to keep from having to define these terms every time I use them, I'm starting a dictionary of terms. This All-Purpose Dictionariopede can be found either at this link, or through the one in the nav-bar above.

If there are any terms I'm missing or have defined poorly, either comment on this post, or e-mail me at BobbyArcher (dot) Zombie4Hire (at) gmail (dot) com and let me know.

Disclaimer

I'm planning on posting about role-playing games that I've participated in in the past (both as a player and as the one herding the cats). Specifically, I'll be posting about things I enjoyed and didn't enjoy. As the people I game with are my friends and some of them may wind up reading these posts, I'd just like to make a disclaimer:

With the exception of one disastrous game that I ran myself when I was about 10, I cannot recall a single instance in which I did not enjoy the games I have played. I also cannot recall a game that was perfect (especially the ones I ran myself). Every game had its good points and its bad. In an individual post, I may only mention bad things about a session or campaign. If so, it is because I am writing about a specific quality of the game or of role-playing in general. Please take as written that there were good parts of the game that outweighed the bad. If there hadn't been, I would have stopped playing. I enjoy thinking and discussing ideas about role-playing, but I don't want to do it at the expense of the friends I've made in this hobby.

Also, while I've left character names intact, all player names have been changed in the interest of protecting the privacy of my friends.