i thought i'd put things into context as far as my own web presence goes... this was me:
The Royal Society Digital Archive now registered in CrossRef (knowledgespeak)
this was a straight follow-up to our getting the archive content online in september.
this is the real thing by the way...
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/archive
the thought was that i could use this blog to trace back through what i get up to. but the more you think about how these things work, the more you realize you are doing it for an unknown community as well as yourself. even if that community never comes to see it. [highly likely in this case i'll be guessing.]
what i was thinking was that i should split the whole thing up into the separate facets of my life - something like work, home and interests... but it's probably the case that there's a fair degree of overlap there. i'll try to do it first off, then drop it as soon as it appears it's not going to work... which i can't believe will take long.
as an aside on the work-vs-home front (he said, breaking his rule straight away), it looks like i can drop a day (or two halves) in the office and by doing so reduce the amount of time our kids have to spend away from us from three days to two. which can only be a good thing. from a lot of aspects when i come to think of it. it's mostly driven by our complete lack of ability to pay for so much childcare, but it works out that we both get to see them more - and they don't have to feel like they're dumped off with strangers (i know it's not that bad) all the time. anyway - it looks like it'll work. we'll see.
one final thought: had while i was crushed in the train on the way to work this morning... it was of a quotation i read last night about the british, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau...
"The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it."
i guess i thought of it because i'd just paid for my new annual travel pass last week and am still sour at the £100 rise. we wait for the train to be late pretty much every morning, or even cancelled if there's a hint of bad weather, crowd onto the carriages, avoid eye contact for as long as the journey takes with the ever-present delays and groan at the driver's apologetic announcements. and yet we pay gladly for our tickets to suffer the same again tomorrow morning and every morning of our working lives. that'll be another thing i'll get out of if the home-working comes off.
