The best kept secret on the Internet

First entry on this particular weblog. The title of this entry, and the blog itself requires a little explanation.

I’m a freelance Writer and occasional IT Engineer specialising in Installation and Support up to 3rd line. My career to date has been pretty patchy, but I’ve done good work for various clients over the past ten years as a freelancer, even if the money hasn’t been spectacular. If you’re an Engineer you’ll know these; Rescuing projects that almost had the skids under them and bringing them in on deadline, coming up with answers when the rest of the support crew were clutching at straws, that sort of thing. Not to mention improving system documentation and writing the odd online in house IT orientation course.

I’ve built a number of websites with particular emphasis on Search Engine Optimization (Or Optimisation if you have a UK spellchecker) and written a few IT related articles which were buried in some mid 1990’s trade publications. Even appeared on local radio a couple of times. Funnily enough, in 1996 I wrote a 2000 word article entitled ‘Cybermarket – the future of retailing?’ which outlined how Supermarkets might use the Internet and outlined where such a Business plan might lead – like selling financial services etc. Looks like a few other people had similar ideas around the same time. The piece, like a lot of my stuff that went into trade publications around that time has sunk without trace. 'Cybermarket' was last seen on a 3.5” floppy disk which is somewhere in my archives. Never mind, that was in the deep dark days of dial–up and the notorious ‘World Wide Wait’.

Despite all my hard work; fame and fortune (Or even a steady income) have yet to come knocking on my particular lichen encrusted front door. Hence the title; ‘The best kept secret on the Internet’. That’s me. It has a certain ring to it. May that ring prove to be rich in irony.

E-mail me at martynkjones at gmail.com, or when I'm on Skype you can call me. I may be able to amuse you.