(Re-) Starting Research in Computing

My idea for this blog is to share ideas for getting going in Computing Research, as a sort of self-help group. Like many academics (I suppose) my own research has got stuck and needs restarting. Over the decades I have gained a great deal of research experience, leading projects, supervising PhD students, examining... and have recently been busy on other things.
I also enjoy writing software too much, and teaching diverse new topics, and neither of these help to maintain a research focus.
So now I need to choose a new topic, and in case it proves useful to other academics in the same position I plan to document the process. I'm 61 but that's not too old - I still learn new things, and just this week passed one of Sun's professional exams. I have some ideas for different angles to write about in this blog, and hope to add an article about once a week.
Comments and contributions to this blog are welcome - please email me. But put the blog title in the subject line please, as I have a strong email filter.