Of course, that was a few years ago when the kinds of decisions I am making this year felt like a lifetime away. But it’s rather difficult for me to go anonymous now.

I don’t mind really. I doubt I would like to work for a company that would frown at me expressing my opinion — within reasonable limits of course. But when you are hunting for a job, everything I write here is potential evidence so it does restrict what I can say about myself in certain areas.

Interesting what you say about politics. I’ve almost completely gone off political blogging. There’s a few who do it well and the rest are, frankly, a bit dull or outraged for the sake of being outraged.

I’m not even 4th year and I’m already struggling to find anything – anything! – to say that isn’t “must write report” and “must hit deadline before design client mauls me”. Blogging, which for me has always been a personal thing to keep friends up to date, has lost any lustre it had. I don’t have many opinions uni couldn’t sue me for publishing. But I still keep randomly updating because I feel compelled to do it, or have something random to say, and – sure as – my readers have dropped off, but I sort of prefer it that way as the people reading now are mostly people who know me, people who don’t care if things are pithy or not! So it’s all going a bit full-circle, really.