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One

This blog is one year old.

This was the first post.

Seems so long ago...

Photo by chrisirmo on flickr

Broken

I've killed my laptop.

Playing around with the system files was bound to end in tears one day. I can't find the back-up discs. I may be offline for sometime. I'm not sure I can survive.

hic sunt dracones

There's a lovely myth that hic sunt dracones - 'here be dragons' - was placed on the edges of the known world by medieval cartographers.  In fact it's only found once, on The Lenox Globe, though there are a fair few examples of dragons on maps elsewhere (like the 19th Century Japanese map on the left).

I love the idea of Terra Incognita, exploring new territory and white spaces.  So this blog is a quest to find today's dragons; things that are in the vanguard, trailblazing ideas and pioneering creativity.  And a quest to find today's dragon seekers; the people who investigate and the probe the boundaries of the unknown a little, the sleuths, seekers and stalkers.  It'll probably be a bit of hodgepodge of notions, odds and ends depending on where my inclination takes me.