mission statement, or some such

okay well i'm not entirely sure of the purpose of this blog. add to that my doubt at being able to get the time together to actually make it useful and i'm left wondering why i even opened the account...but let's for now assume the opposite of all that and say that:

i hope for this to be a place where i can practice, or rather put into practice, the techniques i will learn over the coming months to assist me in my plans of becoming a technology journalist. therefore you can expect to read topics related to just that - technology. however i envisage there will be times when randomly interesting things pop into my equally random head, so i hope this becomes a means of laying such thoughts out in some semblance of coherence. we will no doubt see if this is the case in a few months!

for now and probably the next few posts i'll be coming to terms with how to use this medium properly so don't be surprised if it takes a week or two for anything of any value to appear on here.