Demiurgic

The great thing about writing a blog, for me anyway, is that I never know what I am going to write about from day to day. I might see something or read about something and think “Oh, I could write a blog about that!” Sometimes I write a few small sections on stuff, sometimes I have a rant, sometimes I talk about important things, sometimes I talk about Triple Twitter Trauma or the Monday Morning Blues. Today my blog has pretty much been written for me by the ongoing saga of my laptop. And trust me, this is a good one.

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As you may or my not have read at my Facebook page or in another blog, my laptop died shortly after I went on holiday to Newcastle. It was quite a traumatic time for me as the best I could manage was surfing the ‘net at work (which was restricting, by and large thanks to a prohibitive block on anything interesting) or on my phone, which was useful for keeping tabs on Joystq, io9, Facebook and my e-mail. And pretty much nothing else at all. I’ve had my laptop back for a week or so now but catching up on everything has taken so much time I haven’t really had time to blog anything substantial. So I thought rather than write any kind of crappy micro posts I would wait until I could post something awesome. Or, you know, at least something long.

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