Why start another blog? Blogs are not something the world is short of right now and why would anybody be interested in mine?

Well, I’ve always enjoyed the writing stuff, and to focus the mind properly one usually has to have a potential audience. In the past my writing has been aimed rather dreary technical documents, or invention reports, or internal company ‘deliverables’ which typically are only read by half a dozen people and then usually ignored anyway. Occasionally it was software, sometimes mathematical equations, and on rare occasions a section of a book.   I even wrote an international telecommunications standard once.  (I wonder if anybody has ever found ITU-T Recommendation P.1305 useful.  Do let me know if you have).

But in all these cases it’s been writing to order; I was paid to do it.  Now i’m not working anymore I can write about anything I want. The subject matter will be basically things that interest me, and might just be of interest to somebody else out there. This includes local history, home brewing and winemaking, photography and various woodcrafts.