Changes…
After a considerable and necessary break from writing here, I have decided it’s high time I started again. I have been considering what this site means to me - as a blogger, how I feel about it, what I want to get out of it, and what I need to change about my writing to reach these goals. This thinking has lead to the removal of some previous posts, because they are either complete drivel or they cover topics that I don’t really want to have on my website. I have also been considering a site re-design (rather than the current wordpress theme designed by someone else) that is in the early development stages, and the plan is to have it released in the next few weeks - but you know how these things are…
So, what’s changed since mid-July. My Open University degree is now coming along nicely. I’ve just finished a rather enjoyable module on the basics of Java programming - ahem… I should say that I’ve nearly finished this module because the exam is in just over a weeks time. This module has been really beneficial to me as a programmer, and I hope to put many of the tools that I have learnt into practice in some of the projects I’ve been working on.
This previous post mentions my frustrations with using some of the modern desktop operating systems available today. Rather inevitably, I have decided to switch over to the Mac. Despite recently having the opportunity to get to the Apple shop in Birmingham I have decided to buy my MacBook from a very local re-seller in Eynsham. They seem like a great bunch of guys and apart from the great deal that they offered me, I hope to be able to rely on them for support in the future. Although I am not yet in possession of my MacBook yet (they are having a few problems getting hold of stock at the moment) they have been kind enough to lend me an iBook G4. So fingers crossed for it’s arrival this week, and I’ll do a full update when it comes.
Plenty of other cool things have also being happening (mostly non-geeky things) but I’ll save them for another occasion, because if I don’t get some sleep soon this will just be another post consisting of mostly drivel which may require some heavy handed editing in the morning.