My name is Mark Glover and this is my personal blog.
I use it to write about all sorts of things that pop into my head, which I think other people might be interested in reading. There is no specific theme to my posts; no ranting about hobbies (except blogging perhaps), no detailing my dull, dull day at work and definitely no whining about friends, family and loved ones.
This blog isn’t written to or for anyone in particular. I dedicate it to you dear reader, whoever you may be, and I sincerely hope that you will derive as much pleasure from reading this as I get from writing it.
A Little About the Blog
I first started blogging of a sort in May 2004 with a Live Journal account which I wrote mostly for the benefit of my school friends. The first version of this site, my first proper blog, which I titled “Ignorminious’ Misty Mind” was coded over the summer of 2006 and went live on the 2nd September that year. Over the following two years the site grew and grew, both in terms of readership and features.
Unfortunately, good at coding as I am, I was unable to stop the onslaught of hacker attacks that brought the site to its knees on an almost weekly basis by the end. It was for this reason that in November 2008 I decided to switch to WordPress as my blogging platform of choice. The title of the blog “Not Dead, Just Sleeping” comes from an episode of the excellent Now Show on BBC Radio 4, in which the audience were asked to compose their own epitaph. I chose it because of its applicability to the sporadic nature of my blogging.
My old posts are still available via the archives, but due to various difficulties importing them from what remained of the old site, they are riddled with formatting errors and missing text, which I’m unlikely to ever find the time or enthusiasm to fix. Comments from this period have also been lost, due to the difficulty of importing them.
And Finally…
A big thank you to all my readers, old and new for the support and encouragement you have shown my blog and I. I hope you you will all be with me another two years from now.