Yes, blogs are *so* 2005! But our plan to start an email newsletter for clients was overtaken by events. Nowadays it makes much more sense to create a blog which can be syndicated via RSS, avoiding all the problems associated with inboxes overflowing with spam. And I was shamed into it by the fact that Glenn had me set up a blog for him in November, and I still hadn’t done anything about the one I’d been meaning to do myself for months.

The plan is to post stuff that will be useful to us or our clients. Currently there is no definite posting schedule — I’ll just post when I feel I have something useful to say.

A further purpose of this blog is to show what you can do with free or open-source tools. Although I could easily have installed blog software on our server and spent hours customising it, I’ve deliberately chosen to use a free service to create the blog. It took me about ten minutes to set up this blog — I hope that over the weeks you’ll see it evolve to blend with our existing website, as well as gaining new features.

It’s called The Back Burner because … well, it’s been on the back burner for a long time!