5/12: Orny's Springboard was updated.

5/09: DargonZine 11-4 was distributed well ahead of schedule. The big news in this issue is the publication of the sixth and final chapter of Alan Lauderdale's "Quadrille" series.

4/25: Orny finally got online with his new Internet-based brokerage account. After a detailed examination of the products available, he picked Waterhouse's WebBroker as the online brokerage which best suited his needs.

4/21: Orny participated in what he hopes to be the first of many inline hockey games this year, after not skating much at all for the past couple years. However, that should change, now that a bunch of people at work are getting together a couple times a week to play!

4/18: Orny spent a brief weekend in Maine, visiting family. This trip featured the first round of golf of the year, the inconvenience of lost luggage, and a very cool drive-by view into the shell of a half-demolished old Boston Garden.

4/17: The Specials, the greatest second wave ska band of all time, recently released a new album, and they played a jam-packed room at Avalon on Friday.

4/16: Orny's employer, Sapient, announced record first quarter results (which again exceeded Wall Street analysts' expectations).

4/14: After months of lying fallow, Orny's home page has undergone a drastic facelift, as you now see. The expectation is that updates will occur with more regularity, since less graphics work would be involved.

4/11: Continuing the aggressive publishing schedule we set for our fourteenth year, DargonZine 11-3 was distributed one week early. This issue features our first new writer of the year, Brandon Haught, a US Marine public affairs journalist who brings us a somewhat scatological but highly amusing story about the man who mucks out Dargon Keep's waste chutes.

4/10: Spring has come to Boston, and with it have come all the asshole townies who raise hell in my neighborhood now that the Red Sox home opener has been played. After living in the city for almost four years now, the only run-ins I've had have been with belligerant suburbanites who come into town looking for trouble.

4/9: Orny and several other geeks at work began a self-study course leading toward eventual formal certification as a "Sun Certified Java Programmer". Stay tuned!

4/3: Orny went and saw the band Come at the Middle East with some coworkers and their friends.

4/1: Sapient, Orny's employer, issued another 1.6 million shares of common stock!