As you may have noticed I haven't updated now for about a month. It's not that I've had nothing to talk about, quite the reverse in fact. It's just that I've been unable to decide whether or not a particular topic was appropriate to include. The fact is that I can't decide which direction to take this blog. Or even whether to just leave it as it is. I now have so many draft unreleased postings in here, most of which are topical issues both locally and nationally, that tonight I took the decision to delete most of them as I do know I don't want to run a political blog.
My original idea was for a 'magazine' style website of my own featuring the things that interest me and which hopefully would also interest others. The advantage of using a 'blog' is that it also allows feedback comments from readers who can agree or disagree with, or to even add additional information to my published articles. In this respect it has been highly successful, I've read so many blogs where there's no feedback comments at all.
Worth noting that I'm not a journalistic person in any way, definitely not a scholar nor an academic, I can't spell (I need an online spellchecker, and a dictionary to hand), and I fully appreciate my English Grammar is atrocious!
I'm a practical 'hands-on' technical person far more suited to building and supporting large IT infrastructures than I am to using 'Weblog' facilities . And yet, with this screen up, with thoughts of what I want to say in my head, with six flexible fingers poised around the keyboard, is it just possible that I've actually caught the dreaded 'Blogging Bug'?
Anyway, I do intend to review the postings I've made on here with the intention of deleting several of them, mainly where I'd drifted away from my original ideas. Certainly as the weather improves I will be out and about with my camera again, so there's definitely some posting update potential there. But who would actually be interested?
And my own hobbies and leasure interests are mainly technical ones (apart from my local walks and strolls along the Bridgewater Canal, the interesting 'Linear Walkway' through the originally posh Victorian area of Salford behind 'Millionaire's Row', and I have still yet to tackle the full length of the scenic re-landscaped disused mineral railway line path right up to the outskirts of Bolton). But again, given that this area is already well documented via Google searches, and given that the technical stuff could possibly go beyond the understanding of the average reader, who's actually going to be interested?
Oh, a question I'm often asked is why did I call this blog: Kevin 'In Salford'.
Quite simple, my name is Kevin, and for good or bad I live within the Salford boundary.
No, actually there's also the fact that Salford City Council wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds on changing a very attractive and meaningful crest of arms, referring to the seven original urban district towns that formed the City of Salford, into a very bland car numberplate style "IN Salford" in white letters on a Pink(!) background. Hence a local saying around these western areas of Salford, including Monton and Worsley villages: - "IN Salford? - We'd rather Not be!".
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