April 24, 2005
"The time has come, " the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships -and sealing wax -
Of cabbages - and kings"
Well, I have started a new blog. I had a blog before at LiveJournal, but I wanted a few extra features, like trackbacks and a place to upload my own pictures. Add to that, the desire to have access to the nuts and bolts, like stylesheets, and hey presto, here we are.
I have a few objectives for my new blog. By writing here, I hope to learn how to write well. That is, I hope to learn how to write clearly and concisely, and be interesting at the same time. I also hope that this blog, and in general the whole website, will become a good professional advertisement for me - something that says, "Yup. That guy is a decent programmer."
I am not sure what topics I will be covering. I will make a guess and say it will be rather diverse. Maybe not as diverse as the range covered in the quote, at the start of this entry, but pretty eclectic. Shoes are almost a certainty to be covered. The software industry is a certainty too.
Speaking of the quote, it comes from Lewis Carroll's, Through the Looking Glass. The title of the blog is also derived from that book. In the book, Alice goes running with the Red Queen, but they don't seem to make any progress. Alice remarks on this, saying, "Well in our country, you'd generally get to somewhere else - if you ran very fast for a long time as we've been doing. The Red Queen replies, "A slow sort of country. Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place." The Red Queen Effect is quite applicable to the software industry, and as I probably will be talking quite a bit about the software industry, I thought it would be a good name for a blog.
Posted by JohnC at April 24, 2005 08:45 PM