Strange Machines began in April 2005 as a blog to consolidate all blogs. When I began blogging, I braced several blogging platforms to test them out and ended up having several segmented blogs I got lazy to update.
Strange Machines is a dynamic blog about my life from cat-parent to pregnant to parent, my fascination with science, and my love affair with technology.
Discussed slightly less often but no less important are personal finance and investment issues, and animal welfare and environmental issues.
Focuses you will find earlier in the blog are on science fiction poetry I wrote and published, as well as my adventures in MMORPGS, primarily on Sacred and World of Warcraft.
About Mephala
Mephala is an avatar I use. For those who played Heroes of Might and Magic, you will be familiar with this brunette ranger with dual accuracy modifiers. It is an affliction we gamers suffer, to enjoy too much living in our characters.
I am married to he whom I consider my soulmate and am the mother of six: 5 feline and 1 human. I consider animal companionship as one which is sacred from birth to death, and regard all the 6 small ones as my own children. They are treated no less than each other, although our little human requires more attention.
For the curious, I am a web developer by training and have worked functionally as a usability engineer, content producer, and a copywriter, among other titles that sound different but really doing the same work. Currently, I work on independent projects while caring for my children at home.
Maximising Your User Experience
You will find paragraphs here short and succinct for maximum readability. I have tested the user interface on several resolutions and browsers for the best usability and layout so you should not experience too much eyestrain trying to read this site.
This is, of course, a recent development. If you had been straining your eyes on the old gold on black design, please forgive an old, and very much less user-friendly, preference for the more sinister designs.
Feedback is always welcome on improvements in the design and layout. Please use the contact form on the left sidebar. It is in a box of its own.
Thank you for visiting and I hope you find something worthwhile on this blog to take home with you.
Cheers,
Mephala
