UL RAG week starts today.[1]
It’s the busiest time of the year at work, so blogging, twittering, emailing, plugin updates and general contact with the outside world will be light as I try to catch a couple of hours work between shifts.
See you on the other side.
I’ve just been reading through the nominees for Best Blog Post at the Irish Blog Awards. There are some great posts in there, but what struck me is that there’s all these great Irish blogs out there, and they’re all neatly categorised for the Blog Awards.
Which got me thinking about this blog. How would you categorise it? Although I was long-listed in the Best Technology category, I don’t think this is a technology blog per se. Not like Ken, Bernie, Pat or Donncha.
I don’t exclusively write about emerging technologies, the latest and greatest gadgets, how technology can transform peoples lives, or increase corporate productivity.
I don’t earn my living from technology any more. There was a time when I would avidly follow processor specs, the latest semi-conductor news, which was the best graphics card and so on ad infinitum. Now I don’t even know what speed the fastest processor is. More to the point, I don’t care.
What interests me is the process of using technology. Of pushing it to it’s limits and seeing what happens. Not what happens to the outside world, but to the world inside me.
In other words, I want to break it, fix it and by doing so learn about it. I want to know how far I can go before the technology becomes “magical” – in the of Arthur C. Clarke sense of the word.
So this is barely a technology blog. It’s definitely not a personal blog either, you’ll find very little about me in these pages. Not because I want to be mysterious or anonymous, but because I’m not a very interesting online personality. In person, that may be different story – you’d have to ask my friends, I’m not objectively aware of myself.
So it’s not a personal blog, and it’s not a technology blog – so what category does that leave me in?
Finally, I’m back on the net.
After a week without Internet access, I’m back online.
Longest week of my life.
The lads in the UL Computer Society are hosting their second Skycon conference tomorrow, (Saturday 14th), in UL.
Amazingly they’ve bagged Randall Munroe as a speaker. If you don’t know who Randall Munroe is, then have a look here.
(BTW, this is one of my favourite Randall Munroe creations. And this one captures the geek/ hacker mentality perfectly, while this one is just laugh out loud funny. If you haven’t figured it out yet, I could link to these all day.)
I’d love to go, but I’m moving house this weekend and I don’t have the time to give up a full day.
The full speaker line up can be found on the official Skycon website, and entry for the day is just €5. That’s €5 to meet Randall Munroe, how could you not go?
I’m trying to get started on a new WordPress 2.7 theme, but every time I get started something more important comes up. The way things are going, we’ll be using WordPress 10 by the time I’m finished.
It’s been busy at work. I’m tired. I haven’t had the energy to do much but sleep when I get home. Normal service will resume.
For the second year running I’ve been long-listed for an Irish Blog Award in the “Best Technology Blog/ Bogger” category. It’s a pretty long list, with 26 other blog listed, but how cool is it that someone took the time to nominate my little blog? Whoever you are, thanks!
I’ve decided to take the plunge and upgrade to WP 2.7. There may be some random weirdness over the next couple of days as I test plugin and theme compatibility.
Fingers crossed – here we go.
Blog Awards
Nominations are now open for the Irish Blog Awards. Time to get nominating.