It’s been a long time because I’ve actually been doing some work. I’m learning to exit dream-mode and get on with some practical things for once in my life.

(You can’t blame me, school lulled me to sleep for so many years. Yeah learning is good, but doing nothing but learning for almost 20 years is actually a bit insane. Some people believe they wake up when school ends and reality hits them. In truth, most have simply stopped dreaming.)

I’m busy partly with more education (a part time psychology degree). Like I said learning is good; you’ve just got to be doing something practical as well.

The practical element is that I’m starting up a business.

This was inevitable I think. I was a bit of a childhood entrepreneur until I went to high school and they kicked the spirit out of me. (Why didn’t I just rebel?) Anyway, as soon as I exited full-time education the numbness started to fade. Looking at a job advert was like the splash of ice-water on my face; a stark reminder that the only thing worse than dying is dying after a lifetime of corporate misery.

Coming in a few days I’m going to be putting up my new blog where the main topic will be user interface design (primarily from a website perspective). My hope is to improve the technology climate a bit by making some of it easy to use.

My core belief is if you make technology easy, you give more people more power. Which is usually a good thing, but granted not always! The alternative is to only give power to the government and huge corporations; which is sometimes a good thing, but very rarely.

On a wider scale my interest is in how people interact with technology. But I want to keep my focus reasonably narrow and practical so I’m making no commitments to write anything about that wider interest.

This blog is going to become my outlet for writing about whatever I feel like. I don’t care if nobody reads it; that is pretty unimportant. In fact I don’t even have any statistics for this site; and that’s refreshing. Sometimes I just need to write. This is a place for my key presses to go.

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