And I'm feeling good.

New, cleaner design. New blog engine. Unleashed upon the world today! I couldn't keep up with all the spam the old site was attracting (mostly via trackbacks) so I have killed it off. It is gone, deleted, it is a dead parrot. Cunningly I have migrated the old entries over to this one so it looks like I have been very busy adding content.

The design isn't 100% finished as yet but it will become the design of the site as a whole to create a coherent, unified approach. I will also be adding new sections shortly, such as a BRAND NEW photoblog.

Watch this space...

You’ll probably notice from the calendar on the right that updates to this blog are relatively few and far between. I intended it to somewhat stand apart from the stereotypical blog and keep it more for short, opinionated pieces of writing, a voice on whatever issue was on my mind at the time. Often these thoughts would enter my head but swiftly leave again before I had a chance to put them in words, not least because I usually thought about them whilst drunk.

I’ve decided, therefore, to shift focus somewhat, and write more general pieces. Not everything will be about an issue. I shall, from time to time, simply write about anything at all. Perhaps about how much I would like to return to New Zealand, or the problems with working in Solihull for a month. Actually, I lied up there. I won’t write about simply anything. I don’t think anyone is particularly interested in the ins and outs of my daily life, so I won’t treat this as a diary (I’m still not sure how people can be comfortable putting absolutely everything about themselves online, nor why people actually read these – though I suspect it’s the same reason Big Brother was, amazingly, not a complete failure even after a few series…). Hopefully everything will be somewhat interesting, occasionally entertaining and thought provoking, and on special occasions, such as the fourth Saturday after a full moon blocks out the Sun and causes a rain of fish and caterpillars, even amusing. Well, it can’t hurt to try.

Dreams are interesting things. There's a few different categories of them according to many psychoanalysts, such as safety-valve dreams (were you do things you'd never do in real life), problem solving dreams etc. Some say they're a product of our mind organising recent memories. Some say they're prophetic and precognitive.

Last night I dreamt that I had to find out what Tom Chaplin from Keane had done with the Jeng Ming Dynasty vase when he was younger, else a bottle of contact lens solution would kill me.

Work that one out.