Watch this space

Welcome to my blog. As the site name suggests, there will be a little bit of quite a lot, coz my mind works that way.

In large part this site exists because of my friend Sam (aka Stormcrow Hayes) who may just want a break from being pelted with the odd and sundry information that fills my head. Oh yeah, and there's that article he wrote about me. (click here)

Sam tells me that the problem with bloggers is that they start full of enthusiasm but soon peeter out to once a month postings and then finally, every few months. I'll have to hope this blog doesn't meet the same fate. But it may. I make no promises.

Have I ever told you how I invented blogs? I was living in Amsterdam and hanging out with these two wonderful techheads (Alan Miller and Manfred Poppenk). They were both online and fully geeked with all manner of good tech and daily, I looked over their shoulders, salivating over the existence of email and websites. That was in 1995 and when I returned to the US and got an email account of my own I thought, 'I wish there was a way to have a website without being a company. If I had a site I'd keep lists of what I was reading and listening to, and the recipes I'm working on, and my friends could look at my site and recommend books and music and recipes and tell me what they thought of whatever I'd recommended. And maybe I'd even make some new friends that way.' It was a good idea, no?

So the question is: if I invented blogging in 1995, why did it take me so long to get a blog of my own? Good question. Answer: I was busy.

Welcome to my head. I hope you'll send me ideas and suggestions to feed it. Music is great. Books are even better. Knitting patterns will be rewarded with unending affection. Recipes will also get you lots of love.

the OM