I guess a principal interest is getting away from everyone else. So I get on my bike and head off into the Cornish countryside where there's nobody around. But, since starting this website stuff, I do that a lot less than I might like. Now, though, I'm getting close to the point where I'm thinking this website will do, it's good enough to be useful. Even if it's not, I've had enough for a while and am going to add to it only occasionally. And anyway the days are starting to get longer, so I'll be out on my bike.

If you've been around the site, it should be evident that I'm interested in communication, cultural and media studies. I seem to have spent some time recently, though, reading theory and not reading what is being theorized about. Nothing wrong with that in principle, I suppose, since for millenia philosophers have philosophized about life without actually getting on with living. Still, I've had enough of theory for a while. A German friend of mine has been sending me short works by Peter Handke fairly regularly, so I'm looking forward to taking time out from theory and catching up on Handke.

As you might have gathered, I teach people how to use computers. What's intriguing and frustrating about that is that it's almost uniquely content-free. In essence I help them present stuff, but concern myself generally with the technology required to present it, rather than what's being presented. Strange. So: time to occupy myself with some content or other.

This computer stuff can be quite interesting too, though focusing so much on the mechanics of putting it all together is a distraction from the content - or vice versa, depending on what happens to interest me most at the time. I oscillate between finding it interesting to have to solve problems to get the damn thing to do what I want and finding it intensely irritating. I think I'm going to find it interesting just mucking around on the computer for a while and seeing what I can come up with, with no particular end in view. Most of all, though, I'm looking forward to getting out on my bike.