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It’s amazing how a change in circumstances can alter your habits, interests and even priorities. Once again it’s been a while since my last post, and though I had been drafting an attempted humorous homage to Dante’s Inferno, I have all but flagged the idea. I’ve decided some things just sound funnier in your head.

Being restless tends to cause one to put finger to keyboard more readily too, I think. I’ve since moved into a new flat with my partner, and with all that entailed and whatnot I haven’t had much mental space for blogging. Nor as much “creative stress”, I have to say.

But while looking for reaction to a national news story in the blogosphere recently, I discovered an interesting new website. It’s called uthink, and 15 years ago it would have been my idea of heaven. It’s a message forum, but one specifically designed to allow a poster to get on their soapbox and say what’s on their mind, rather than make use of a messageboard attached to some other specialist website (such as a gaming or dating site). Not only that, it’s on a .co.nz domain - a refreshing change for a general purpose social networking website.

Well, this being my first post ever on a blog, I thought I’d give some of my impressions. I must say I’m pleasantly surprised; I had no idea that so many functions are routinely automated at the point and click level, within a browser window. It just shows how long I’ve been out of the IT loop.

Ultimately - that is, if I stick with this beyond a month or so and develop these pages into something approaching a useful resource - I will need to actually start paying money to someone for a proper domain name, and will probably need a change of host. But, first things first. It looks as though a lot can be accomplished with WordPress’s free features alone, and so it is perhaps appropriate that a journey of a thousand miles begins in my case with baby steps.