The latest issue of Ragnarok, the journal of fantasy and science fiction wargaming, was published this week and contains the usual mix of useful and off-the-wall articles. I liked the Daleks, the moon landings and the discussion on alternative history.

The SFSFW have been busy and can now be found on Twitter and Facebook. They also have their own blog (which I'm syndicating on LiveJournal, if that's your preferred platform).

Today, I've been updating the society's web site:

• Combined two stylesheets into one (originally the second stylesheet had been @imported in order to hide it from Netscape 4, those were not the good old days)
• Converted the site to HTML 5, just because I can, and added some ARIA role attributes for accessibility
• Pulled in the latest blog posts onto the homepage (using Magpie RSS to do so)
• Added all the new sites to the navigation
• Added social bookmarking links to most pages so visitors can send the page straight to Google, Facebook, LiveJournal, Delicious, Stumbleupon or Twitter

Total domination of the interwebs, here we come!

Reading the new SFX Heroes special and this:

Jayma Mays (how sad her name makes her sound like a female version of the gorilla-faced car journo)

made me hoot with laughter and made pink_weasel very indignant (she's a bit of a fan, you know).

Ragnarok is the journal of the Society of Fantasy and Science Fiction Wargamers. The latest issue, the first with John Wilson as editor, of Rag has been published and is in the post to members.

• Saint Snatch - Relic steaing in Dresda
• In the Dog House - Strontium Dog in Inquisitor
• Crimson Twenty One - Crimson Skies in Air War C:21
• Ottomania II - More Turks in Aeronef
• The Rules of War - Reviews of Space Vixens from Mars and Battlestations

This morning I got on the wrong train. I have never done that on the way to work before, and I've only done it twice on the way home (and drink was definitely involved in one of those cases). So I was heading towards Victoria rather than London Bridge, and having a plain return season ticket rather than a travelcard I couldn't jump off at Balham and hop on the Northern Line. So I jumped off at Balham and waited for the next train to London Bridge, which was late and even if it hadn't been late would have gone back through West Norwood half an hour after I left.

My web server has been up and down, but mostly down, all day. I think that one of this weekend's jobs will include taking a complete backup of everything.

For some reason I bought another issue of .net magazine. This one comes with a free CSS reference poster. The credits for which read:

Reprinted courtesy of the W3C
www.w3schools.com

The poster is indeed a version of the w3schools CSS chart which explains why it's not very good, 'cos w3schools aren't very good. w3schools are also nothing whatsoever to do with the W3C. Whoops.

Best headline in this morning's Metro was "Man Killed by Gimp Suit". I suspect Auton involvement but the newspaper gave some mundane explanation instead - UNIT misinformation in full swing.

According to the SFSFW Awards I'm in a minority these days for preferring Wargames Illustrated to Miniatures Wargames. I subscribe to the former but only pick up occasional issues of the latter. Yesterday, I bought the latest issue for the article on the conquest of the Canary Islands - Conquistadors versus Cavemen. I'm a bit miffed that the article (billed as part one) was just two pages long and did nothing more than give the geographical description of the islands. :-(

There's a new wargames mag - Battlegames - but its not being distributed to newsagents and whilst I can subscribe or order a sample issue online, there's nothing like being able to flick through a copy to help decide whether it's a worthwhile read (which clearly I should have done in WHSmiths yesterday prior to buying Miniatures Wargames). With luck, someone will be selling copies at Salute.

Apart from WI, and with Harbinger having folded, the magazines I either subscribe to or buy every issue of are:

• Prehistoric Times
• Warpstone
• Ragnarok
• SFX
• Doctor Who magazine
• TV Zone

That doesn't seem like too many (especially as some of them are published rather infrequently), so why do I never seem to have time to read them properly?

I was going to post something about this, but Steve Flanagan said it better on the SFSFW mailing list.

Harbinger is now billing itself as "The Only Independent Miniatures Gaming Magazine" (their emphasis). How true.

Except for Ragnarok, Slingshot, Lone Warrior and all the other society magazines.

And Wargames Journal, Total Model and all the other on-line magazines.

And Ravage and Vae Victis.

And Wargames Soldiers and Strategy, the newly-Englished Dadi & Piombo, and Historical Miniature Gamer.

And Miniature Wargames and Wargames Illustrated.

And is a magazine whose avowed editorial policy is to provide a mouhpiece for medium-sized wargames companies actually "independent", or is it just multiply-dependent?