I've had a Livejournal for a long time (nearly 12 years 
) and while the way I've used it has varied over that time it's turned into a collection of write-ups and reviews of books I've read, tv programmes I've watched, concerts I've been to, films I've seen etc etc. As these are less ephemeral posts than the stuff I started with I decided to migrate off Livejournal and onto a blog on my own webspace. Yesterday I finally ironed out the last fiddly little details (I hope!), finished copying the last couple of months of posts across and put the site live. It lives here:
http://ninecats.org/margaret/
At the moment it's pretty heavily biased towards history - in both the non-fiction books I'm reading and the tv programmes I'm watching. Right now I'm trying to learn more about Chinese history (because I know nothing about it), but also in the queue for non-fiction books are things on English history, something on early pre-history, several books linked into exhibitions I've seen at museums (and it's a queue that grows & grows). I also read a lot of fiction (primarily but not totally SFF), and have just started on a project of re-reading every fiction book I own (alphabetically, by author, coz that's how they're laid out on the shelves ...). As well as that there's selections of photos I've taken, thoughts on films I've seen or computer games I've played. A little bit of a lot of things, the theme is pretty much "what I'm interested in".
It's primarily for my own benefit, but it's nice to write things for an audience & to talk to other people about them - so despite my very British unease with self-promotion
I thought I'd use the excuse of a re-launch to point people here at the blog. Hope some of you wander over for a look 
) and while the way I've used it has varied over that time it's turned into a collection of write-ups and reviews of books I've read, tv programmes I've watched, concerts I've been to, films I've seen etc etc. As these are less ephemeral posts than the stuff I started with I decided to migrate off Livejournal and onto a blog on my own webspace. Yesterday I finally ironed out the last fiddly little details (I hope!), finished copying the last couple of months of posts across and put the site live. It lives here:http://ninecats.org/margaret/
At the moment it's pretty heavily biased towards history - in both the non-fiction books I'm reading and the tv programmes I'm watching. Right now I'm trying to learn more about Chinese history (because I know nothing about it), but also in the queue for non-fiction books are things on English history, something on early pre-history, several books linked into exhibitions I've seen at museums (and it's a queue that grows & grows). I also read a lot of fiction (primarily but not totally SFF), and have just started on a project of re-reading every fiction book I own (alphabetically, by author, coz that's how they're laid out on the shelves ...). As well as that there's selections of photos I've taken, thoughts on films I've seen or computer games I've played. A little bit of a lot of things, the theme is pretty much "what I'm interested in".
It's primarily for my own benefit, but it's nice to write things for an audience & to talk to other people about them - so despite my very British unease with self-promotion
I thought I'd use the excuse of a re-launch to point people here at the blog. Hope some of you wander over for a look
...wounding her only makes her more dangerous! 
-- haphazard1
It's More Fun to be Jack of All Trades than Master of One.
-- haphazard1It's More Fun to be Jack of All Trades than Master of One.
