A beginning

Well, the site's a mess, the code's half-finished, I've not particularly thought things through, it's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tanks of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. OK, some of those last bits aren't entirely true, although I've actually got some sunglasses next to me which I could put on just to up the truth quotient, but frankly I can't be arsed.

I've had this site being half-worked on for such a long time that I've finally figured balls to it, it's at least functional, so rather than perfect it before going live, I'll feel far more motivated if I know it's up, with people looking at it in judgment. So welcome to my half-finished, half-thought out collection of witterings.

This is actually one of two sites, loosely connected, but the other one exists in no way...yet. The basic theory is that the other site will consist entirely of amusing/entertaining links which I stumble across over the course of a day. Yeah, hardly original, but I come across a lot, and I feel an urge to share.

This one will be the wordier of the two - partly thoughts and opinions on the links on the other site, plus those prompted by...anything else which occurs to me - likely to be a mix of films, politics, news, life in general... Yeah, it's a broad definition, I know. The inspiration for this site was the realisation that being self-employed and working from home (my main job's running another site, but I'm going to try and keep it separate), over the course of a day I tend not to speak to anyone!

That sounds more pathetic than I mean it to - I've got friends, family, and a flatmate, so it's not like I'm cut off from the world. But during general daytime hours there's no-one around to vocalise thoughts to, so I figured a blog made sense. The statistic I came across recently was that the average office worker spends 45 minutes a day chatting to co-workers - it's that window this is meant to fill.

In due course things will get proper tags so you can filter out posts which are more likely to interest you, a way to contact me, comments on posts, and an RSS feed if you're REALLY keen to keep track of my ramblings, and more, but for now this is fairly basic.

Oh, and the reason for the name...well, I just like that phrase. A nice mix of kind-hearted abuse.