Let's Find Lighting in a Bottle

Back in the early 2000's, after returning from the United States after 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 fondly 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 renewed focus on my life, I'm hoping that I'll capture that same feeling of lightning in a bottle again through this site and what I document and share here.

You know the feeling. It's an ephemeral, fleeting feeling that is not easily replicated, which many people in my generation (X) seem to remember, given we were there for the birth of many of these technologies.

I felt it when I turned on my first Apple II computer at a mate'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 Pentak K1000 to a Sony Mavica digital camera with it's 3.5inch floppy discs.

I felt it when student mate of mine, in the basement of the engineering building at the University of Queensland in 1988 downloaded a picture of Elle McPhersons Swimsuit edition from some computer in the united states.

I felt it when I bought my first Macinctosh SE and Imagewriter printer and with Printshop, started printing anything and everything.

I also felt it when I signed up to 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 some crap I'm not interested in, my domain name is now my very own repository of what makes me me.

Lets see what happens.