I am a lover of all things Japanese (with the possible exception of the food!)

I have been a fan of ninja since:

• Eric Van Lustbader wrote “The Ninja” in 1980
• The “Enter the Ninja” movie in 1981
• The “American Ninja” movie in 1985

Note: “The Ninja” is a good novel. The two movies I mentioned here were not very good at the time and certainly have not stood the test of time!

The word ninja commonly featured in my passwords for many years (I can say that now because it is no longer the case).

My love of ninja has survived many, many things which I have not enjoyed. Examples would be movies ranging from “Ninja Assassin” to “3 Ninja Kids”!

So when I saw that the Ninja TLD was being released, I just knew that I had to get one. And hence “mccullagh.ninja”. So in spite of my lack of martial arts training, there is now a “peter.mccullagh.ninja”!

BTW: In writing this post, I discovered that a movie called “irish American Ninja” was released in 2005. It has an IMDB rating of 6.1 which is not bad for a ninja movie (the 2009 “Ninja” movie with Scott Adkins only has a score of 5.5!). Still, the mind boggles!

Welcome to peter.mccullagh.ninja, my new blog.

I started blogging on 21st September 2011. My old blog is available at “petermccullagh.blogspot.com”. At that time I chose blogger.com because I figured that:

1) It was a specialist blogging site. I thought this would mean that there would be lots of functionality and lots of innovation

2) I knew that blogger was owned by Google. So I thought that my random musings would be easy enough to find when searching from Google.

3) I knew that it was free and hoped that it would remain so.

Only the third of these really turned out to be true. In relation to innovation: I am unaware of any significant changes since I started using it. In relation to search: if I go to my old blog, and search for “Nimoy”, it tells me there are no hits, even though I know there are quite a few postings which mention Leonard Nimoy!

Note: I suspect that some of these poor search results are caused by the fact that blogger.com, blogspot.com, and blogspot.ie are all at play when I access my blog. The whole thing is really quite ridiculous.

So it’s goodbye to Blogger, and hello to WordPress on my own virtual server.