Actually getting started

As usual, I'm late to the party, but I'm finally getting going on the 23 Things programme properly. It's taken more rearranging of my online life than I'd expected, and I now need a chart to keep my personal, professional and online identities untangled. Although I've had this blog for a while, and although I feel I'm fairly confident with Web 2.0 applications, I'm hoping that 23 Things will help me consolidate what I've learned, as well as filling in the gaps in my knowledge.

With the web, as with most of the things I do, I'm largely self-taught. While this means I can wrestle with most programmes and force them to do what I want them to do, it also means that I'm missing out on some of the basics. I can play the piano (just) but because I could never be bothered with scales or music theory, I've never really got past the basics. I can manage basic HTML and CSS, but because I got confused halfway through, I never pursued it, and my husband writes far better websites than I do. Hopefully the structure of the 23Things programme means that I'll be forced to slow down and overcome my natural impatience - I usually want to have learned something, rather than actually learn it.

As I'm starting late, I probably won't go back and startle people by commenting on really old posts unless I know them personally. But it's going to be interesting to build a new Blog Roll (my personal RSS feed list is massively out of control), and to get to grips with some new things as well as revising the old properly