Let's Find Lighting in a Bottle

Back in the early 2000s, after returning from the United States and participating in the dot-com boom and subsequent crash, I found myself setting up and playing with blogs on a variety of platforms such as Typepad, LiveJournal, and Blogger.

I was never an avid blogger per se, but I remember the feeling of discovery and the unleashing of creative juices that these platforms afforded.

Almost 30 years later, with time on my hands and a desire to revisit my creative side, I hope to recapture that same feeling of lightning in a bottle through this site and what I document and share here.

And when I say "lightning in a bottle," you know the feeling.

It's an ephemeral, fleeting sensation that is not easily replicated. Many people in my generation (X) seem to remember it.

Maybe it's because we were there when many of these technologies were born and changed our lives.

I felt it when I turned on my first Apple II computer at a friend’s house and discovered computer games for the first time. Even today, the sounds of playing Choplifter and Karateka can take me back to the early '80s.

I felt it when I upgraded from my Pentax K1000 film camera to a Sony Mavica digital camera with its 3.5-inch floppy discs, and then to my first digital SLR.

I felt it when a fellow student, in the basement of the engineering building at the University of Queensland in 1988, downloaded an image from Elle Macpherson's Swimsuit Edition from some computer in the United States. Remember, this was before web pages.

I felt it when I bought my first Macintosh SE and ImageWriter printer and, with Print Shop, started printing anything and everything.

I also felt it when I signed up for Typepad for the very first time and published my first blog post.

Let's see if I can capture it again with this blog.

Freed from the constraints of building my personal brand and selling things I'm not interested in, I now have my domain name as my very own repository of what makes me, me.

Let's see what happens, shall we?