Anything without a better category goes here!
I’ve not discussed where I work much on this blog, since the company doesn’t have a clear policy encouraging blogging about our jobs. Our customers are pretty sensitive to releasing information about upcoming products, so I decided to basically avoid my job on this blog.
However, I’m currently rather busy, which means I’ve not had the time to think too much about new blog entries. Normal service should resume in a month or so. In the mean time, I’m learning lots!
Something I’ve known was coming for a while, that I can now talk about.
Congratulations to Liam and Brett on their engagement. It sounds like New York has been fun. It was certainly a great evening on Thursday, and I was honoured to be present at the start of something new. I also now understand why there weren’t airline tickets in the envelope that Brett opened – Liam wasn’t done with the surprises at that point :-)
Blogs are different to ‘regular’ websites in a way I hadn’t fully appreciated. The combination of easy updates, topical content, and easy subscriptions (maybe there are other things?) makes them a very social medium.
Since starting this blog I’ve been contacted by several people who I suspect I would not have been in touch with otherwise. Including a branch of my family I’d lost touch with, a blogger from London who I’ve never met, and recently a friend of my Mum’s, who is also an old friend of my brother.
This blog has also been a topic for discussion in the pub – it is boring apparently (hello Joe, if you’re still out there). Figuring out when to mention here the fact I’ve recently met a lovely man who I introduce as my boyfriend (Hello Richard!) has been something I’ve been looking for an excuse to do for a few weeks. It seems like an important thing to mention on my blog, but figuring out the right moment wasn’t obvious. Even if Liam got there some time ago…
A year ago, I hadn’t been seriously thinking that leaving friendsreunited would work out so well, but it seems it has – people can still find me here on the web, and more people than can be found on freindsreunited, I suspect. I wonder how long my other social network subscriptions will prove useful.