Fun with Wordle
While I was sitting in my office, drinking coffee and waiting for inspiration, I played around with Wordle. Wordle is a free service that creates word clouds out of RSS feeds, texts or...
March 3, 2009
Non-RPG
Yes We Can
I just stumbled upon Obamicon.me, a free service that turns your photo into an “Obamicon”, an image in a style inspired by Shepard Fairey’s iconic poster. This isn’t really RPG related, but I...
February 23, 2009
RPG Anthology, blog comments and Creative Commons
With the upcoming RPG Blog Anthology some discussion about copyright and other legal issues on the RPG Bloggers Network was inevitable. Perhaps you already have read the posts on The Bonemaster and The...
January 31, 2009
Creative Commons
I’ve finally decided to release my blog’s content under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. This means you can...
January 30, 2009
Technorati = FAIL
Recently I added a few new features to my site. One addition was a Technorati widget that should show my blogs authority, sites that link to me, Technorati tags and more. Alas this...
January 27, 2009
A look back on 100 posts!
Behold the 101st post on Stargazer’s World. When I started that blog in August 2008 I had great plans and much greater hopes but of course nothing happens exactly as planned. There were...
January 22, 2009
Please wear your helmet!
After several months looking at the same old theme I got tired of the look of my blog and so I decided to give it an overhaul. I’ve already found a new theme...
January 20, 2009
Ratings!
As you may have noticed these blog uses a ratings plugin that allows readers to rate each post from 1 to 5 stars. I added this feature to give my readers another opportunity...
December 19, 2008
My thoughts on the RPGBloggers Network
Stargazer’s World has been a member of the RPGBloggers Network for quite some time now. And since the last weeks of the year are always a good time to look back at what...
December 18, 2008
WordPress 2.7
I’ve successfully updated to WordPress 2.7 this morning. The update process was even easier than I expected and it seems everything is working fine for now. Please let me know if you encounter...
December 12, 2008
Playtest: WoW Miniatures Game
I have to admit I am an avid “World of Warcraft” fan. When the WoW Miniatures Game was announced I was sure I had to get my hands on one of the starter...
December 8, 2008
Google Friend Connect
This morning I added a Google Friend Connect gadget to the site. I had to fiddle around with the theme a bit, but in the end it turned out pretty nice. So, what...
December 5, 2008
Some site updates
I’ve made a few tweaks to the site today. From now on the permalinks to pages and posts are much prettier than before. To link to this post for example you can use...
November 28, 2008
Canned Meat
I am currently trying to fend of an unending onslaught of spam comments on this blog. When I woke up this morning there were 17 new comments to be approved and they were...
November 13, 2008