blogs and content and our world

So our world has changed so much since my days at the beginning of the "web log" world. Then we were blurting chunks of text out into the intersphere and listing them in reverse date order. :-)

Then, pagination, then comments, then RSS (yes really).

Well, now most of my content is small bite-size bits blurted out at twitter. All my image blurts show up on my instagram account. So i don't do much on this web site.

But I'm finding more and more that to find some of my content, it would nice for people to be able to find it here. So I'll be adding some entries. Enjoy!

Life changes

Wow! It's finally starting to happen. Changes in my life that have been building for many years are just hitting that tipping point and becoming real. I wanted to post this first, so that many of you who typically see me only in a professional life will know to look away. :) My posts here are likely to get more personal. The surprising catalyst for making this public was a comment in a forum. Someone took note of the .signature line I've used for most of my career, and that appeared in almost all of my web presence 'about' boxes:

Husband & Father ( i also write software )

There's a great story behind that (that many of you have heard) involved my desire to share my priorities with the people i deal with professionally. That being a good mate and a good parent were always going to be more important than any other endeavor. That life balance sense is still true. And many in the industry have comented on that and learned from that tag line.

But several of those pieces are different now. My parenting is different because my amazing kid is now grown and out of the house. And what it means for me to be a husband is different as well. More on that to come.

So now, my tagline will be more generic, but also more true to who I am in this moment.

bassist, agilist, learner, enthusiast

• I am a Bassist as near to full time as I can be
• I am an Agilist, coaching agility in software teams, much more than a coder
• I am a Learner, always questioning and incorporating new things
• I am continually living Enthusiastically... It's probably the biggest comment I hear from those who know me.

So there you have it. A first sense of how much my world is changing. And posting now simply because someone pointed out the tagline I've used for decades. :)