bradKELLETT

While I am infinitely happy with my position with MobileBurn, and I whole heartedly believe that online/digital media is the way of the future, I have been thinking lately of branching out and attempting to secure some freelance print media work. I will be relocating to the US in about a year’s time to deepen my involvement with MB, but in the interim, I wouldn’t mind getting more experience in print as well. Supplementing my income a little would also be great.

Freelancing is something that appears quite daunting to me. It seems that it takes a lot of time and effort to break into the scene, and even when you do get contacts, it is a very competitive market. If I do go ahead with it, I will try to document my experiences networking and writing here, as both an outlet and in the hope that others might get some benefit out of it. I wonder whether having work published online holds much esteem with print editors; I believe I am a good writer, and my work on MobileBurn should be proof of this. Time will tell, I suppose.

Well, it finally happened. The chances of being burgled are fairly high these days, and let’s face it, I’ve had a pretty good run to not have been broken in to before. But last night it happened…

Gone is, well, pretty much everything electronic in my apartment. Not only have I lost home entertainment items like the Xbox 360, as well as my desktop computer (including two LCD monitors and scanner) and notebook computer, but also my external backup hard drives – meaning years and years of data is now gone. While this is a painful experience for anyone, it is even more so for someone like me who works from home. This has absolutely disabled me until I can get a new computer, and even then, the damage done from lost data cannot have a price put on it.

Gloves were used, so there are no fingerprints, and the chances of me getting anything back is slim to nothing. While I will not go into a deep, philosophical discussion about what it is that makes people behave in this manner, I will say that it is quite upsetting seeing how immoral humanity has become.

While I can spend time obsessing over the loss, the fact of the matter is that I am not hurt, and life will continue. The experience has shown me the good side of humanity as well, though, and I would like to extend the most heartfelt thank you to my friends, family, and girlfriend who have been incredibly supportive, and offered more help than I could ever hope for.

And on life goes…

Let me ask a question: Are you a bad blogger if you don’t post to a schedule? I have been terribly busy getting through the piles of pictures and notes I have from CeBIT in Hannover last week, and so I haven’t posted much at all. Am I a bad blogger? Continue Reading

Here it is, my first blog going live. I figured that I needed to have the first post as an introduction – so here it is. Click on to read about myself and my aims for the blog.
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