About This Site

This site started as a personal blog and learning project. Instead of storing stuff in my head, I thought I start a blog to store all sorts of seemingly useless information and learn to how to create content for the Internet.

Personal Filing

A friend once commented that I seem to know a lot of things, like an encyclopedia. I think my mind is more like a memory warehouse in Stephen King’s Dreamcatcher [https://amzn.to/3RTlpfW] If you have not read it, I heartily recommend it. Although it is supposed to be a horror story, I didn’t find it that scary.

In the novel, there is a scene depicting how Jonesy, bodily possessed by an alien, locked himself in his memory warehouse. This warehouse represents the mind of Jonesy. He is trying to keep the alien out of his memories. Jonesy’s memory warehouse looks like a dilapidated library with a spiral ramp lined by shelves of books.

My mind could also be described as a library card catalogue. Rows and rows of wooden cabinets with brass handles and rods holding index cards bearing bibliographic information that points to the source of the information. 😉

Experiential Learning

I am a firm believer in experiential learning. I believed that I learnt more about the Internet, blogging and social media with this blogging project then only reading it up in theory. It takes a lot of time, but I think it is worth it and more fun.

So much have changed with the web and Internet since I started in 2006. I still remember having to write up the code for a table by hand. Now, with a click of the button, everything is done. Embedding images and videos has gotten easier too. Gone are the flashing gifs and flashing words.

Happy browsing!