I wandered lonely as a cloud from Blogger to my own domain, new home of my blog. I hope the move doesn’t prove to be a pain in the backside, like so many techno chores often are. Many times I have vowed never again to “grub around” in the bowels of any technical plumbing. I first made the vow over 10 years ago when I last dared to speed-wire a prototype circuit board. Many years and several thicknesses of glasses later I swore to mess around no longer with yukky coding. Best to leave it to others. Now I find myself fiddling around with web control panels and PHP settings and other uninteresting uses of time because stuff doesn’t “just work”. You see, for my latest book, I’ve also been busy setting up a Wiki, which is a rather tedious affair compared with just writing a book! Anyway, let’s hope that the experiment yields some fruit.

My blog isn’t new, but I’m changing my approach. I generally find that blogging regularly (i.e. daily, or even weekly) is a problem, so I decided to make life easier. I intend to blog about wireless stuff, but I shall post about anything else that takes my fancy. The problem is that spending as much time as I do (and have done) working in wireless, it becomes increasingly necessary to do other stuff “outside of hours”. Writing a blog solely about wireless is contrived. I know that blogs are supposed to be breezy and deliberately imperfect musings and comment. However, having opened up the whole “100 Ideas” thread, I found myself increasingly having to think of ideas. Now, having ideas is not the problem, it’s simply that the thinking bit can become tiring when its frequently about the same topic. Not only that, but the wireless industry is forever on the cusp of doing something really interesting, but for one reason or another doesn’t. This Christmas, the sale of mobiles is all about price plans, deals and packages, just like, well, last Christmas. People want a mobile for the same reason they wanted one last Xmas. There’s nothing new and exciting to crave for, like the Nintendo Wii. There’s just new, as in new model, but an old marketing trick.

The ideas will continue: I didn’t quite know what to do once I got to 100, except carry on. Having promised on numerous occassions to stick all the ideas into an “e-book”, I finally settled on the format, which is a Wiki. In this format, as opposed to PDF (my original intention), not only can I extend the ideas, but so can readers, assuming they want to and can figure out how to edit a Wiki. I’m not sure how the experiment is going to work out, if at all, but I sense that it’s worth a go. I hope that I’ll find out sooner or later.