Proji’s World

Today I had to go to my periodical refresher on Depot Track Safety. I say periodical because while it is, in theory, and annual interval those intervals can be shorter or longer depending on a number of things.  What is Depot Track Safety you may ask. In short it’s required for familiarising people with the layout of a train depot (walkways, first aid, assembly points, routes into and out of the depot etc. It’s not so much about specific layouts, more about the important things you need to do, managing safety, briefings you need to provide and correct working practices. It’s an essential part of delivering training in my job.  Now I have successfully completed the course, my licence has been updated ready for me to continue to deliver on the job training. It was good to catch up with some people I haven’t seen in a very long time as well, a hidden bonus of training days. It has made me think about a few things though, I’ve always enjoyed delivering training. That is why I do my current

This is my first post here on Blogger and it’s been quite a journey to get to this point. Over the years I have hosted my own website on my own server. It went through a few iterations of purpose, starting as a social hub, later becoming a companion site to my YouTube channel then becoming a site for tech news and reviews with a hint of gaming thrown in. Truthfully the gaming side took over a bit more as my interests have changed over the years, but it still largely had its purpose.  Then of course there are the changes to the visual appearance, going through three different content management systems and multiple visual styles to boot. However in recent years I simply hadn’t updated any of the content, partly due to time and partly because I just lacked the motivation. The site just didn’t reflect who I am or what I was interested in.   So then, why the new home? It simply came down to the fact that I had no desire to keep paying for a web server. After all I was hardly using the site