After nearly two years of quiet I've decided to start blogging again. This is partly because I need an outlet for my verbal chuntering, but it's more because I forget so much that I read or learn. I'm interested in so many different areas that remembering and keeping track is difficult. I often read (or listen to an audiobook of) a really good non-fiction book or article, and a few months later I could summarise in a couple of sentences what I remember. The act of writing about what I've read, seen, listened to etc. helps me remember, and then I've always got the blog to go back to if I want to look at again. I was reading some of my old blog entries yesterday and it surprised me what I'd forgotten and even found it interesting re-reading!
I'm writing this blog mainly for my own benefit, but if anyone is reading this, I hope you find some of this stuff as interesting as I do, and please leave a comment or send me an email. When looking over my old blog posts the other day, I found that someone had actually commented on one of them. Someone was reading! I didn't really understand the comment, but that doesn't matter so much.
This time around I may also do a bit of tweeting, as I've got a twitter account now. You can't say much in a tweet, but if nothing else I can link to blog articles I write and post random links to pages on the internet that interests me.
If my previous blogging efforts are anything to go by, when I say 'will write more shortly' or 'tomorrow I'm going to post about X' as a lot of the time it doesn't happen. Maybe I'll be better this time, I don't know. I do intend to blog a bit about the bbc radio 4 series 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' which I've been listening to recently. Watch this space (hopefully!)
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