Well, this is it, the first of hopefully many posts in my personal blog. Partly a belated fulfillment of a news years resolution (hint: not the most recent one), partly to facilitate some projects I’ve got in mind and partly as an attempt to improve my own writing (it’s taken 10 minutes to get this much down), this blog has been a long time in the oven.
As every decent blogger/rss-pundit will tell you, blogs work best when they have predictable posting frequencies, ‘good writing’ and well-defined topics. I can’t guarantee the first two (it’s going to be a battle, I know it), but for the latter I can at least give you (and me) an idea of topics you expect me not to post about:
- international, domestic & local politics (an exemption from this rule for topics relating to projects I’m tinkering with)
- my day job (I’m an IT consultant, that’s all you’re going to get)
- music, movies, books etc (I’m happy to chat about these endlessly over a beer, but for the moment at least, not online)
What does that leave? Well, mostly my mysterious ‘projects’ I guess. Every IT person has their pet projects and I’m no different, but recently I’ve come to the realization that as long as I keep these secret, they will never see the light of day (i.e. I won’t even finish them). So, tempting as it is to keep these mini-masterpieces to myself until their grand unveiling (i.e. never), I’m going to try to force myself to articulate them here. Who knows, with your help I might even finish one or two.
No politics? Phht.