state of the simon address.

So it's time to talk about what I've actually been up to recently. I can announce that I've been hired by Slashdot as an editor, mainly to focus on their new Slashdot Games site, which launched this morning. [I'm posting as 'Simoniker' there (the word 'moniker' plus the first half of 'Simon' in front of it), since we decided h0l or h0l211 was a bit too l33t-speak, so excuse the double pseudonym issues from now on, heh.]

Anyhow, this is a great opportunity to build on an already popular site, so I'm going to try to update often and well with the latest PC/console/retro submissions and news, yay. I'm working remotely, so I'll still be hanging round the Bay Area as before.

I'm also doing work, via the Internet Archive, for the International Children's Digital Library, helping them out with scanning and batchfiling of some beautiful children's books for their NSF-funded project - a very worthy project to help expand universal knowledge online.

There are various other projects I'm working on (an archaic software preservation webpage, a real-life label based on Monotonik, a possible masters in archiving), but I'll no doubt update those on-blog as they happen, and the Slashdot/ICDL work is my main priority right now. Full-time games work was trying to tempt me back (thanks to those who cared), but this is my preferred choice, and I'm _really_ happy about it. In the meantime, I'll try to update reasonably often - and go read Slashdot Games now :P