What an incredibly original title for this - my first post.

Well, I figured that it covered the main point of this entry, that is to introduce myself and this website. My name is Chris. I live near Exeter, Devon. I like to surf, am enjoying learning Japanese and am a bit of a techie. I enjoy building websites and learning the technologies behind them.

This blog is my second major attempt to keep my own website. The first, ModByChris.net, was OK, but not built to any rigorous design standards, had a poor lightbox effect for images and more importantly, I didn't update it nearly as frequently as I should have.

This time thing will be different! This time the pages will not be solely focussed around what I have been doing (i.e. personal diary type posts), and be more focussed around the technical side of things: experiements, tutorials and experiences. Thus these articles may actually end up being of some use to someone (?) and, if not even that, a good back-reference for me. That is not so say I won't post about how amazing the surf was last weekend, or some pictures of random events in my life (I may even build a simple gallery!), but they will probably be less common.

At least, this is plan now. Time shall tell how it happens...

I have been building this site over a fair while now, much longer than expected, due to the fact I have been trying to move house, jobs and organise a wedding all at once. But now it is here and I aim to write here at least once a week. The next step is to build a comments system so if anyone actually reads it, they can leave comments and there can be discussion.