Hello and welcome to the first of many blogs from me.....hopefully.

I've spent many hours reading through other bloggers ramblings and a lot of it is interesting, informative and on occassion thought provoking. My intention with this blog is not to compete with the wealth of good blog material already being amply provided but, to simply 'speak' my mind and where possible provide an insight into the revelations I get now and then in my life as a software developer.

So where to begin? Well, for me this is easy and it's really a big THANK YOU to team that has made this blog possible at all. I'm referring to the team that is responsible for BlogEngine.NET without which, this blog will not have been born. If you're thinking about developing a blog engine of your own (like I was doing and not getting anywhere fast) then I highly recommend checking out BlogEngine.NET. It's almost painless to install and setup and you can be up and running within a couple of hours - including the time it takes to learn the ins/outs of the admin pages!

Blogging was something that I just couldn't quite get my head around. I didn't understand the point in people filling up the Internet (that's a joke BTW) with ramblings about, well, nothing. It just didn't make any sense! One day I was introduced to a couple of blogs by some friends of mine and I decided to sit down and read through a couple of postings. After a short while I realised that I was wanting to read more. It was then that I finally understood that not everyone in the blogging world has pointless, mindless ramblings about Britney Spears and how she's '...done it again...'

This revelation occurred about a year ago. Now that I'm enlightened with the world of blogging I feel that I too may have something to contribute from time to time. If anything that I post is of some benefit to anyone out there then great! If no-one ever finds and reads this blog then it doesn't matter as I'll then have a kind of diary that may come in handy later on.

So until next time....