So, why all weather haulage?

Well, primarily it's because of the late Douglas Adams. Author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (a trilogy in four parts) and other great books, he was responsible for the creation of McKenna's All-Weather Haulage in the fourth part of the trilogy, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. For those of you who've not yet read it, Rob McKenna is a long distance truck driver on whom it is always raining. He can describe, name and identify a variety of types of rain, drizzle, smurgh and because of the continual rain he is always 'a miserable b*st*rd'. Unbeknownst to him, he is actually a raingod and the rain clouds are following him (and worshipping) him wherever he goes.

Am I a miserable b*st*rd? Is that why the blog is so named? Or, a long distance truck driver? Or, perhaps a raingod - it certainly feels so sometimes but no. It's because I wanted a blog that allowed me to post on a variety of topics around a common theme - that theme being getting from  A to B the best way one can, with the tools at ones disposal, with the minimum of fuss and disturbance, broadly within the set limits.

I am a professional designer and design manager, so the blog is bound to include design - that only limits me to anything made or influenced by the human race then - but also music, literature, cars, people words, ideas etc etc

Finally for the first post, Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers spawned (amongst other things) a great site that used to be hosted by the BBC - kind of wikipedia with it's tongue in it's cheek - h2g2. Take a look, it might make you laugh.