Who's Aurora, anyway? (2012)
Welcome to 2012.In the last three weeks I’ve stopped using Chromium and gone back to Firefox, albeit via their Aurora channel.Aurora is a way to get to play with some of the very latest things in Firefox, and is frequently updated. I’m using Aurora because I want to support a browser that’s free software, and because I also wanted to see some of the cool stuff being done by people at Mozilla.It updates very frequently, and with minimal interruptions. One of the things I’m loving the mos
Weekend of painting and gluing (2011)
After my Scotlings arrived on Friday, I was dying to put them together and paint them up. I spent most of the weekend painting and gluing things (including my fingers) — including my Scotlings, a unit of metal Wraiths, a Ghast, a unit of Dwarf Berserkers, a unit of Dwarf Ironguard and the Twilight Elf Sorceress. I even made a start on my Undead cavalry.Impact Scotlings * Normally, I don’t like metal miniatures — they’re often too fiddly (Dwarf Berserkers) or too heavy to realistically asse