Go forth

So then…a blog.

I guess I’m coming a bit late to the party here. These are the days that have crept up upon us when it seems that ninety percent of the people you meet are running a blog, or a myspace site, or are sitting behind their computer corralling everybody they’ve ever met into their friends list on Facebook. Will we ever reach the moment where the headlines say “Man has entire world population listed as friends”?

Actually, that’s a pretty long headline, though I’m willing to bet the Onion has got it covered.

But anyway, I decided to begin this experiment for a whole range of only moderately interesting reasons. And at the risk of turning my first post into the sort of dull drivel that’ll force your brain through your nostrils and make a mess of your keyboard, here goes…

1) I enjoy writing. And despite the fact that I studied two flavours of English at university, together with a year-long creative writing course, I’ve ended up doing almost no writing for myself since. Initial searches for a job after university actually ended up bizarrely with me becoming a graphic designer in magazine publishing. Now I enjoy design very much, and no doubt there will be posts in the future covering the topic, but the only writing I really get to do at work is for marketing material and suchlike which is not exactly fulfilling creatively unless you’re the sort of person who wants to constantly tell everyone how amazing and wonderful and nipple-stiffeningly fabulous everything is.

2) To blither on about things I find interesting. And that’d be a whole lot of things which I hope will start to emerge.

3) To see what it’s all about. I’ve had this tribefive.co.uk domain for some time, nominally to set up as a portfolio for freelance design work in my spare time. But pressure of my full-time job has meant I haven’t got all that far on that score. So I might as well use the site for something, and it gives me a chance to experiment with setting up and configuring WordPress, the blogging software running this mountain of self justification and pretension.

4) As a pathetic excuse to spend a lot of money on something that is cool, but that I don’t really need. Which would be the positively bulimic MacBook Air which is so thin that you could probably fold it into a paper aeroplane. Furthermore, it’s got a swishy gesture-based touchpad that’ll take me one step closer to being Tom Cruise in Minority Report. Although I don’t really want to be that close to the Cruise-meister, seeing as Scientology appears to have sent him mental. There aren’t many religions that appear to class insanity and spouting gibberish as a desirable end result - that’s the sort of thing that usually starts religions. Anyways, my reasoning goes as follows:

- I wanted to start a blog
- I don’t really want to have to go and sit at the computer every time I want to post. Being able to blog whilst on my sofa, out and about, or lying in bed would be much better. Blogging from a reclined position is really the only civilised way to do things, after all.
- Thus, lovely wireless technology of joy must be acquired to achieve this. Yes, yes, there are much cheaper and more practical options out there, but la la la I can’t hear you. Yes, I already own two other computers but fingers in ears, fingers in ears.

 So then, the Mac’s on order, and this first post is…posted.

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