I know I haven’t updated this blog for a while … in fact I frequently abandon it for a few months while I carry on with life’s struggles. Keeping up with my job, finding time to spend with my beautiful wife, all the while attempting to keep current with the fast pace of technology growth.

Starting today, I will try and change that. You see, in order to motivate myself to keep this blog updated I have decided to set myself a goal and complete it. I will keep updating this blog not only with my progress, but will also write about what I have learned as I go along.

So my first goal will be ‘to improve my writing skills’. I have enjoyed writing stuff for a long time now and friends have occasionally told me that ‘you could be a really good writer’. Well I’ve finally decided I should give it a shot.

To be honest, I’ve never been good at grammar, and people find that hard to believe. I’ve simply developed a good ear for what ’sounds right’ based on my perusal of several newspapers, magazines, novels and books over the years. Learning a lot of vocabulary while preparing for my SATs and reading ‘lots’ has really helped.

The first book I’m going to try and read and understand is going to be Bugs in Writing, which I bought several years ago, but never got around to reading. It is written mainly for people who come from a scientific or technical background and hence is perfectly suited for someone like me. Each chapter aims to analyse and fix a single ‘problem’ and you can read each chapter in whatever order you like.

With that, I bid you farewell. I believe my next post is going to be about ‘passive/active voice’. Exciting times indeed