First word

Welcome to TangledThreads, the blog of an unremarkable man.

If there is an established protocol for how to start a blog then it is not one that I know. Instead, I shall explain why I am doing this.

I have a bad habit that my friends are kind enough to tolerate. That bad habits stems from who I am. I find a great many thing interesting. I like to share ideas. Unfortunately, in my case, this means that I tend to respond to questions which lectures. One of my friends has extended this tolerance to a degree where he feels that my rambling discourses should be accessible to other people in the form of a blog. Indeed, he has gone out of his way to ensure that I do this. Accordingly, I have created this blog.

Perhaps I should say a little about who I am as an introduction - doubtless I will fill in a profile but some context may be helpful. I am 40 years old, male and currently live alone though I am part of a long established long distance relationship. I live in rural Berkshire in the south east of England. I have a scatter gun approach to interests and switch between them in an apparently random fashion. Among things that I might talk about are:

- Science
- Computers
- Poetry
- Fiction
- Music, especially Blues and Filk
- History, especially British history, especially the history of Roman Britain
- almost anything else that takes my fancy outside of the core areas.

I am not a known expert on any of these subjects with the exception of a particular area of computing - I work for a large US IT company. I will leave it to your judgment as to how well versed in the other subject I am. All that I can promise is that discourses will be varied. I can not promise that they will be interesting because I have no idea what your interests are.

I don't propose to discuss my personal life very much because it is likely to be dull to anyone who doesn't know me and uncomfortable for those that do.

If you have any questions and feel that I might have an answer then please feel free to post them as replies. I can't undertake research campaigns for you but I will answer if I have any knowledge of the subject or any views.

I thank you for your interest on the safe assumption that you will not have read my thanks if you didn't read the rest.

Blues