Coffee Crone: Taming Coffee Blog

January 2 2007

Rambling On

I am still deep in the world of techdom, which, at the moment, involves thinking a whole lot about clean and accessible web design. It was time to revisit that, and, as always, I'm amazed by how much I don't know, even after having done this for a decade.

Part of it is simply because I haven't spent enough time reading and part of it is because I don't interact much with other people doing design work. Then there is the laziness factor.

I'm not much into making New Year's resolutions, but if I were, one of them would be to spend some time really learning this shtuff, so that by the end of the year, I'd have a completely standards compliant, breathtakingly beautiful, website and weblog design. Mo'timers can expect that I will write about some of this in the Motime Template Blog.

I'm also going to spend some more time learning, and writing about, coffee. It is a way to give back to the community of folks who are serious about coffee, and maybe to help a noob, just beginning to explore this many layered and often confusing world.

These things seem much more doable than focusing on world peace or the environment, though I hope to spend some time doing that as well. I've been thinking a bit about what I might want to look at, in terms of an ongoing weblog topic, that I can regularly write about in a way that folks find interesting, and which also has some sort of redeeming social value.

Back when I was blogging as CalGal, I did a lot of writing about local issues and Canadian politics. After a horrible experience centering on the nasty things that can happen when one chooses to give up ones anonymity on the web, I didn't blog at all for almost a year. When I reemerged as taming, I made a conscious decision to be less serious and more anonymous when I blogged. That's why I don't refer to my hometown by name, and why my last name doesn't appear anywhere on my weblog.

In any case, part of my end of year reflection has been to look at that decision, and to try to come up with a way to write about important topics whilst still maintaining the anonymity that I feel I need to stay safe. The writer in me knows that for anything serious to have credibility, it has to be attached to a real person. I have to come up with a way to balance this with the part of me that was truly damaged by my previous blogging experience.

Like this weblog, it's a work in progress.