Last year was my first at Penny Arcade's Seattle gaming convention. As such, I felt that though I thoroughly enjoyed wandering the massive halls of the exhibition hall, there were some deeper elements of PAX I'd missed out on. These elements were, it turns out, the parties.

Our first 7:00 PM stop was an event co-hosted by Gearbox Software, 2K Games, Amazon, and Joystiq touting playable Borderlands 2 and an open bar. While the modestly sized Pink Ultralounge was a nice venue, the crowd in excess of 500 people made mingling virtually impossible. We made our leave by eight, and headed to our next event: Microsoft's invite-only "Atari Arcade" party.

This event was located at Still Liquor, a tiny bar buried on a Seattle side street. Immediately my cohorts and I identified this as a more suitable venue, and before long we had engaged in an interesting conversation with a Microsoft employee. This guy knew his stu... [Read more]

So like always, as almost an annual occurrence, I'm *officially* announcing some major things in store for the future of Catserver and the Catserver Networks "family". I just can't seem to leave well enough alone, can I?

First off, a point release to Catserver.net is on the horizon. No major design change this time around, just some tidying up. Unfortunately there's a massive amount of work that needs to be done before its back end is even close to being ready, which brings me to my next announcement...

Nebula CMS, Catserver's first official product. Designed from the ground up to support Catserver and similar sites, Nebula CMS will eventually offer Wordpress-like features and functionality all while being quick, compact, and highly adaptable. I hope.

Nebula Foundry, my forgotten portfolio site. I know it's been sitting derelict for over a year now, but I intend to change that...someday. Once N... [Read more]