It’s about time I cleaned this blog up a bit. I look back on it and have a few questions: Why on earth did I pick func-auton.net as the URL?* Why weren’t post titles also permalinks? Why was a blog that had a few good posts once but was quickly turned into a massive, fluff filled ad-farm still in the “worth reading” part of the sidebar?

I don’t know, but I’ve made a few changes. The biggest is that I’ve registed a better domain name: www.functional-autonomy.net/blog now works. I’ll maintain the func-auton.net URL just because people have linked here with it, but the new URL is going to last a lot longer.

I’ve also tweaked the template to be a little more usable, updated the links to other places you can find me online, trimmed the categories a little, and linked some new and more worthwhile sites up in the sidebar.

The sites I’ve added give a heavy bias towards games. When I started this blog I still wasn’t sure if I wanted to make my career in games. Now I have no doubt, and in the past few years have met and read many more interesting games bloggers.

Tom Armitage understands the massive deficit of criticism that games have right now, and is trying to rectify it to the extent he can. His Delicious stream is pulled into the blog and includes commentary.

Kim Pallister talks about games, technology and business. Grounded and eminently readable.

Jane Pinckard is fucking clever and has good taste.

James Wallis is into video games, pen and paper games, board games, all kinds of games. He has a deep understanding of their history, writes, designs and publishes his own, and also did this fantastic talk for us at Playful last year. Spaaace has 3 A’s, apparently because it’s a triple-A company :)

*Answer: I had a train to catch.

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