Scop’s Blog

Heh, sorry about that. Kind of forgot to renew the domain. So that was it. Year one. Things certainly are not where I thought they would be when I started this, but they could be a lot worse.

Every day, I get up and drive to work, where I rub elbows with some of the best game designers in the world. I know things a (true?) game journalist would strangle an ox to find out, but a niggling little thing called an NDA keeps my pen away from the page. I enjoy the work, but it is not permanent. I am a contractor, and my employer/customer owes me nothing. One of these days, they will tell me not to come in tomorrow.

When I saw the new web hosting fees it would take to keep this venture of mine going, I flinched, I faltered, and this blog died. As more of my friends took notice, they asked me why my site was down, and I had to think it through again. A career in journalism covering video games is still very much my dream job, and this website is my best avenue into that job. In the end, I could not give this up completely.

It was easy to ignore the cost of maintaining this site during the first year. I bought the web hosting on a special, and only paid $30 for the entire year. Now, I pay monthly, so I should have much more incentive to get use out of it. That, or I will have to keep justifying it month after month. Either way, this site will not stand idle.

A lot has changed. As I type, I am listening to music from last.FM as it is playing through my Xbox. I am backing up my hard drive right now, so that I can upgrade to Windows 7. Games I salivated over last year are sitting on my entertainment center, thoroughly enjoyed or ignored. A puppy is curled up under my desk, stirring every time I shift in my chair. Tomorrow, I am going to go back to work. At a game studio.

This rambling post is not a second wind. I am not attacking my keyboard with renewed vigor. This is not an upbeat promise that I will get my act together and start posting content on any kind of schedule. This is my way of saying…

…stay tuned.

Sure, it was a bit of a surprise when I launched Thunderbird and had an email from Twitter telling me someone had opened an account in my name, but I’m fluid man.  I went with it.

In case you haven’t noticed, you can view the last three Twitter posts in the right side bar.  If you want to see the raw feed, go here.  I’ll be using that for minor site news, so I can save the real posts for, well, real content.  (ie, not stuff like this)

Other points of interest:

• Scop’s Blog is now bigger and better, thanks to an upgrade to Wordpress 2.7.1!  Now Dreamhost won’t yank my webpage for security vulnerabilities!  Yay!
• Scop’s Blog is on AIM!  Add me as a friend by typing in my very original screen name, ‘Scopsblog’.  Don’t worry, I fully expect half of the messages I get to be creepy spam.
• Scop’s Blog is on Facebook!  Join the group Scop’s Blog Fanclub, support the site and tell your friends!

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