Passing Thoughts

Starting again

I have been meaning to start blogging again for some time. I tend to use my site as a test for web archiving crawls (see below) and enjoy re-reading it so I am going to make an effort to start writing it again. I have been planning to do a relaunch but I haven't got round to that just yet. Perhaps the best idea is just to get on with things and redo the design when I have time.

So what am I up to?

I have moved yet again (there's a surprise) and we now live in Ulverston. Just up the road from where I grew up. Despite spending a lot of time as a teenager thinking that the grass was greener elsewhere - experience shows that that is not the case (Yorkshire is not bad though). I have to say - it is beautiful here, considerably quieter and we are right out in the sticks, the sea is 5 minutes drive away and we are pretty much on the edge of the Lake District. I can also physically feel that I am less stressed by not having to commute as well.

My professional life is taken up entirely with Web Archiving now - both for the European Archive and my own fledgling company Hanzo Archives. This tends to involve a variety of things - software development, running crawls and poking around the underside of the internet incredulous at the weird things people do.

My Family life is also much better. Not having to commute means I get to see a lot more of them.