Why – It Occurs

So why does Richard Wallis need a personal blog?

Well unusually for most prolific bloggers, up until now I have only posted on company blogs.  As Technology Evangelist at Talis, you will find my postings on Panlibus and Nodalities.  Although those two blogs do have a fairly wide coverage (see here to understand what that is) they are not the ideal place to cover more personally relevant issues.  Most who read those blogs will not be interested in whinges about airline travel; books that I’m reading, things that have caught my eye in the news; my opinions on general technology or; why I felt the need to kick the dog in the morning.  Hence It Occurs where I won’t have to think “is it appropriate?” for a company hosted blog before posting.

So why ‘It Occurs‘ as a title? – Two reasons.

Firstly, when I first start to describe new ideas in a meeting, presentation, or similar situation I often hear myself say “It occurs to me that…..“.  Hopefully this blog will be a place to do much of that.

Secondly – I have found, that although you can by your own actions have a significant effect on what happens to you between cradle and grave, the is a key attribute about ‘life’ – it happens.  It occurs all around you – it rains when you do/don’t want it to; your government invades a foreign country; your kids grow up to be great people, despite you skills as a parent – the list is endless.  Also on bad days the name of this blog could be most appropriately be prefixed with the librarians war-cry ‘ssh‘.

Enough for a first rambling post.  I suspect postings here will be fairly intermittent as most of my efforts will will be targeted to the readers of Panlibus/Nodalities, but lets see what happens occurs.