Actually he was not used to writing by hand. Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speak-write which was of course impossible for his present purpose.
George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-four Part I
I used always to write longhand, but now "apart from very short notes," my work demands—or seems to demand—writing on a computer. Last year, writing a paper, and feeling very restless, I used a combination of Writely.com, MS Word, and pen & paper. I found this impurity of media worked well. The act of research, reading, and writing is now so completely bound up with the web, and web-based resources, that it is impossible, or at least impractical, to separate them.
I want this new blog to be a place where I can bring together resources from a wide range of locations and trace the trails of my readings on a range of topics—teaching, research, other interests. I hope that through this I will be able—as Winston Smith tried to do—to create a space for free thought.
