Week 11 Update: The First Great Quest Complete — Hammer the Backlog
Hello dear reader, welcome back to week 11 of Hammer the Backlog, the Warhammer painting and productivity blog to end all others. You will excuse the hyperbole, I hope, as … Continue reading
WordPress: back to the old plans (almost)
I saw via Aywren that WordPress have changed their plans again, this time going back to almost where they were on 31 March this year. Good news for smaller bloggers, … Continue reading
The bad thing about goals
Yesterday I wrote about what I saw as the positives of setting gaols. While I think the positive outweigh the negatives, the negatives are still there. All paint, no play … Continue reading
The good thing about goals
Having achieved a recent goal spanning several years – painting all my miniatures – I have been thinking about goals. Why have them? Are they useful? What are the downsides? … Continue reading
What’s next?
I started this blog 10 and a half years ago primarily to track my miniature painting projects. With everything painted now, is this the end of the blog? Short answer: … Continue reading
Test, Test, is this mic working? — candore et labore
After reading DayKay’s latest update over on “Scent of a Gamer“on his search for a possible new blog home or options for keeping WordPress without paying extortion fees, I did … Continue reading
WordPress changes: 14 days later
At the start of this month, WordPress chose to remove most of its plans without notice, and replace all paid plans with a single plan that was more expensive than … Continue reading
100-day posting streak
At the start of the year I decided to see how long I could keep posting something each day, with a view to seeing if I could get to a … Continue reading
WordPress walks back (some) changes
Thanks to a link from Aywren, I see that WordPress have undone some of their recent disastrous changes. The newly introduced limits on how many people are allowed to view … Continue reading
Options for leaving WordPress
Well, here’s a post I never thought I would be writing. After the events of the past few days, I think many people must be wondering what their options are. … Continue reading
A sudden, unannounced change
In between articles a line on my blog stats suddenly went from being halfway full to being full and red: The free WordPress option used to come with 3GB for … Continue reading
3 Tips to reduce your unpainted pile
Do you remember a time when you had a manageable number of figures to paint? I know I don’t! I started in the hobby by splurging on several hundred figures, … Continue reading
Looking ahead to 2022
You will (I hope!) be happy to know that Scent of a Gamer will continue in 2022. I shared my overall thoughts on the blog’s 2021 performance yesterday and today … Continue reading
Hobby favourites of 2021
This article is heavily influenced by Dana Howl’s recent video on the same subject. As with Dana’s approach, this isn’t an attempt to name the ‘best’ of anything, but to … Continue reading
The blog in 2021
2021 was the second year in this blog’s history that overall views were lower than the year before: But I don’t consider this to be bad news as such. The … Continue reading
Back in 2022
With holiday traveling I won’t be updating the blog for the rest of this week, articles will resume in 2022 – next weekend! Hope you all have a great break … Continue reading
The November experiment
Last month I decided to experiment with increasing the volume of posts I was making to the blog. I have no ambition to increase this permanently, but I wanted to … Continue reading
Orktober 2021 – Da Big Round Up — Convert or Die
So having announced just yesterday that I’m embarking on another painting challenge I thought it was high time I padded my post count took a look back at the last … Continue reading
From the painting desk #78 – A ship of sorts — Dawn of the Lead
Yes, that is a very big crab. From the painting desk #78 – A ship of sorts — Dawn of the Lead Mikko over at Dawn of the Lead just posted … Continue reading
Welcome to Blaugust 2021 — The Ancient Gaming Noob
The time has come again, the annual neighborhood blogging event has arrived. As I mentioned previous, back in the day this was a bit of a hardcore event, an attempt … Continue reading
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