Metaversal Mining

So.

This is my first blog. I’ve been published before in the real world, many times, but these are my first words directly into the blogosphere. I’m going to approach this as a child and learn as I go rather than reading pages of techniques and such. Learning by doing is so much better than theory, don’t you think ?

I guess that I should try and explain a little of who I am and what I do to fill my time.

I’m a full-time student right now. A balding, bearded, portly full-time student doing my second masters degree in my mid-thirties. I live in England in a very pleasant spot near the sea. Its one of my favourite places in the world. I have seen a fair bit of the world, most of Europe, bits of Japan, Australia, Tanzania and the US. I used to travel around Europe with one of my old jobs maintaining the computer systems that run mobile telephone networks, so am used to working with and in other cultures.

To my mind I’ve had several successful careers already. I’ve been an oilman, working the rigs in the North Sea. A computer systems guy making sure that some of the brightest folks in England had the things that they needed to push the boundaries of science and technology. A mobile telephony engineer, as I mentioned above. A financial analyst looking at mining stocks. Never been sacked, never been pushed out, always left on pretty good terms. Mostly I moved on because I stopped learning.

I like learning new things and trying to put together the pieces into a coherent whole.

That’s why many of us are here I suppose. An exploration of thought and deed through shared expressions in a digital universe.

Let the thinking commence !