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Due to buying an Asus Eee which has a screen resolution of 1024 x 600 I have repented of my Flash MX ways and decided to return to good old Notepad. I had, previous to buying the Eee, fallen into the habit of writing web pages to look good at higher resolutions, it was a gaming thing; gaming changes the way one thinks about computers.

Having re-thought it, I remember how good simple grey pages are. I may have forgotten almost all XHTML tags, but I remember that grey looks good and that 600 is a lot smaller than pages used to be.

So, who am I? Well that’s a good question. Basically I’m a web dweller, a person whose name is recognised by Google; a gamer (Quake/Doom/Half-Life etc) I blog therefore I am, I am a musician -using ‘found objects’ and I write for Kinky Sex blog…and I am a priestess of Ereshkigal.

…But I need a place, a web space, to put things into some kind of order; my web pages extend over more servers than I can count; this is my attempt at creating it.

First thing: Music.

This mp3 is called: Dark Sheep. I do not know if it is representative of what I normally do; as far as I can see normal isn’t a terribly important value.

I have a love of horror though; I consider a mp3 good if it makes me feel very uncomfortable.

Gaming and YouTube and mp3s fit together in this film: Hole by Dr Kaligari remixed by me.

The first PC game I ever played was Myst, this game was ultimately just a set of interactive pictures, an almost paper pop-up format. Myst was simple, no fancy graphics by today’s standards at all, but visuals at that time were very primitive worked for me -it got into my dreams- because of the sound effects. Latter I played Half-Life, made my way back down the gaming evolutionary ladder to Quake and remain a loyal fan of Doom3.

Virtual landscapes as real places…

Once I discovered Quake3Arena I realized that I’d returned to my home. Before computers were in every home (let alone Xbox or PlayStation) all I had were arcade games. I loved the twitchy games, the mindless violence (?) perhaps I’d been a cat in my previous life! The world of Quake3, with its futuristic-medieval designs, and that beautiful sky still suits me better than any other game. I made this film to say all the things I’m not saying here about it.

Next subject is my identity as a blogger. My everyday blog is And Then The road of Entities. I don’t remember when or why I started to blog -as I say, I blog therefore I am! The concept of being a non-entity (when my worth is measured in financial terms) doesn’t bother me at all. I merrily tweet like a silly bird, and am happy that all the time I waste at the PC could have been spent engaged in charity work! I also contribute to Kinky Sex Link -a haven for BDSM bloggers. I'm not sure if I would class myself as a BDSM blogger, but I am proud to have been invited to join the party. Back to the subject of identity, I am resolutely RideFlame where ever and when ever I write or play within the Internet. Sometimes I think I should try to split my identity into different names, for the sake of privacy, but I’m just not that concerned.

So what else do I do, or have I done whilst out here in the web? I made a few web pages for artists using mp3.com and was paid in Cds, I used to write a lot about how to make films using games (machinima) and I wrote walkthroughs especially for the games made by Koumei Satou.

Well that's just about it. There could be lot's more, but not today.