The beginning

This is the beginning of my blogging life. Actually the beginning of my English blogging life. I was blogging in Greek before (and still do sometimes). But to enlarge my audience and allow more people to benefit from my wisdom, I started this blog in English as well.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Nearchos Paspallis and I was born and live in Cyprus (which is such a small and complicated country that people tend to add a link to its Wikipedia entry when they first mention her).

Back to myself, I spend most of my time in front of a computer screen. However, my tan (seen in my profile picture) is mostly natural due to sunlight I am exposed to during coffee breaks (rather than to LCD radiation). There are primarily two main reasons I spend this much time in front of my computer: First, I work as a researcher in Software Engineering (so, you could say it's because of my job). Second, I pursue a PhD in Computer Science.

The motivation for this blog is that it will help me organize my [public] thoughts, and have an archive of them in case I need to recall them. For instance, I plan to blog about technical stuff, and also thoughts related to my PhD research (e.g., try-and-fail lessons). Hopefully my ideas and opinion will not be completely useless to everyone.