So, I finally decided to join the great ‘blogosphere’ on the interwebs. I’ve toyed with the idea of maintaining a blog on and off for the past couple of years, but never quite found the motivation to get on and do it. Lots of friends have done the blog thing with varying degrees of success over the years, sadly some of the interesting ones died off due to lack of author time/interest; happily the medium is working very well for various friends living abroad – giving a fantastic insight into their lives.
I regularly find myself having moments in my day where I’ve been thinking about an interesting subject and would like a place to dump my thoughts or a reason to pursue the idea further at a later time – this for me is the real purpose of a blog – a dumping ground for my sporadic thoughts and insights; for my own future reference, but also as a resource for anyone else who happens to be looking for the information. It will also give me a place to get things off my chest (rants a plenty…).
So I’m giving it a go – I’m hoping to create content regularly – probably creating titles/ideas during the day via my phone as ideas occur to me – then expanding into full posts as time allows.
I have an opinion on most things and tend to go off on random tangents fairly easily so I expect to be blogging on a wide variety of topics; in addition to the general flow of consciousness though, I’d imagine the main blog categories will broadly follow my main passions in life:
- Friends, Family and Sheffield – Okay not really a specific blog topic but definately a passion in life
- Music – Folk, Roots, Acoustic, Jazz, Rock, Metal, actually all sorts
- Poker Strategy – I play online mainly – Sit’n’Go and Multi Table Tourneys
- Software Engineering and Architecture – I do it for a living – and I actually enjoy it – okay so I’m a bit of a geek – I have a lot to say on this subject…
I’m sure there will be plenty of other stuff falling between the cracks; I’m always up for feedback so comment away 🙂
I have been asked where the blog name came from – very simply I use the name OwZone as an account name on some poker sites and it seems to have stuck as a general online avatar. I may come up with something more witty in the future.
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