Smalltalk with James Robertson

Slicehost just sent me a message telling me that the server hosting my slice will need a reboot, and it's scheduled for sometime between 6 pm and 7pm (est) today. So, expect to see the site down for a bit when that happens :)

Over there on the right (assuming you're reading this from the site) is a new section - a Reading List. The books there are ones I've either just read, or am reading now. At the moment, I'm in the third one in that list, A Storm of Swords. It's a good book, and I'm sure that I'll soon be joining the legions of people who want martin to produce another book already :)

Full disclosure though - the links are Amazon affiliate links, so if you follow them and then buy the book, a few pennies come my way. Doesn't cost you anything extra, but it will help keep the lights on over this blog :)

I've had a few people ask me why I set up this blog when I have the well established one over at Cincom - So I figure an explanation is in order. The main reason is simple: over time, I've branched my topics well beyond Smalltalk. In some of those cases (copyright, for example), it could be said that I've stretched the bounds of what should be discussed on a corporate sponsored site.

The more I thought about that, the more sense it made to me to set up a new blog. That would give me the freedom to discuss topics that might not be appropriate there, but that I wanted to explore in public. Now, don't expect to see my going political here - I'm under no illusions that anyone really cares what I think about politics :) Unlike so many people (celebrities, for instance), I know that my readers come here for a few topics (primarily Smalltalk), and politics isn't one of them.

So what can you expect to see? Well, the Cincom site will have all of the Smalltalk content it's always had, but the rest of the stuff will live over here. I'll be talking Smalltalk here, too - there will be a fair bit of overlap there. You can consider this site to be a superset of the other one.