How the world has changed ………

…since August 2009. Where have I been all this time? A difficult question to answer. The answer may even resemble ‘nowhere special’.

In the mean time, it seems that it has become reasonably straight forward to customise this blog the way I like it. (It could be that I was just being dense and/or impatient last time round). So the red velvet chair has now made its début here on WordPress. I am still not certain if WordPress is superior to Blogger or not. Blogger has the advantage of being easily set up with Adsense. I think WordPress (.com, not .org) has some monetising options if you get to 25k or more daily views. Here’s hoping. Maybe my writing will be of interest to someone in the long run. One thing is for for sure: If I don’t actually bother to write a blog, no-one will be reading it.

Customising

Well I have now made an attempt to customise this blog a little bit. I think that the customisation options are rather limited. I wanted to have my velvet chair image as a background to the entire blog as I do on other sites like youtube or twitter, but I can’t find a way to do it. I would even like to have a little avatar of my ugly mug, but it is apparently not to be. Could just be a learning curve though. Avatar is one of those words you just simply wouldn’t have heard fifteen or twenty years ago. TTFN.

Interest

It is difficult for me to imagine that anyone would necessarily have any interest whatsoever in what I may end up writing. Perhaps the way to go would be to tell some stories from my long life; I am surely at least half way through it already. Perhaps the stories of Paris, Brussels, Karlsruhe, Mainz or Zuerich might hold a bit of interest for someone. Maybe my opinions on matters technological might interest others or perhaps the same folk. Perhaps character sketches of some of the mad crazy people I have met over the years. Maybe I will just end up writing to no-one. Why not write to no-one – more chance of it being read than if I just think of it in my little old head. I could just look at it as practice for touch typing! Enough for today. Got to think of an alternative to “perhaps”.