I’m using this blog as a way to practice writing. Now that the craze of blogging seems to be fading it seems like a safe time to emerge from the shadows and see how my thinking and writing styles develop.

You might ask “What’s the tag about?” Sometimes a phrase pops up in my consciousness and sticks in my mind.

• At times during Perl 6′s development it looked like the point seemed to be to deliver other languages’ features with a Perlish twist just for the sake of it, hence “Yesterday’s Ideas Tomorrow”.
• Sometimes I am only too happy to think the unthinkable, and occasionally voice that thought. Thinking the unthinkable is a hackneyed phrase which has awful associations with overpaid, underqualified zealots strategizing.  As I’m underpaid, overqualified, and sometimes quite apathetic “Unthinking the Thinkable” seems appropriate.
• “A dark with no promise of dawn” is taken from a Tony Banks lyric. It is how I feel after too many years of maintaining bad code. I should alternate it with “Remain in hell without despair”, a lyric from the League of Gentlemen.

The audience I had in mind when I started writing this blog was me – if this blog interests or entertains you then I have achieved more than I intended!

My personal web pages are at http://www.stok.ca/~mike/

Mike