Ramblings of an Internetaholic

After a long hiatus I have decided to post something on my blog again. Rejoice my loyal underlings readers!! The last time I posted something on my blog was an year and a half ago. A few things have changed around here since then.

• I got job. Just a week after my last blog post to be exact. (Maybe there’s some correlation there. Hmmm…)
• See all the Linux stuff in the previous posts? I gave it up after I got myself a decent computer capable of gaming. My computer is running Windows 7 now. (TRAITOR!!!)
• I changed my phone quite a few times. Since my last post I’ve gone from being a Symbian fan to being an iOS fan and then finally ended up with Windows Phone 7.

So yeah, this blog is going to sing a different tune from now on. Don’t worry, I won’t be singing praises to Microsoft all the time.

Moving on to the matter at hand, it’s been recently brought to my attention that I’m being too lazy to be called a human being. Which is complete and utter bullshit I tell you. Although my browser history would suggest my mission in life is to read all the posts ever posted on 9gag.

Anyway after working a year and a half on small to relatively large software projects as a .NET developer, I like to think I’m a somewhat experienced programmer now. I’m no Chuck Norr Jon Skeet obviously, but I can do stuff. Sort of.

The point is while I’ve been going on about FOSS and contributing to the Open Source community etc etc. in my university days I haven’t done a single damn thing after I started working. I’ve been too lazy to start on any project that was not related to my work. After I get home from office I just switch into idle mode where I aimlessly stare at my laptop for most of the time.

I have decided that this needs to change. Therefore I’m setting myself a few goals to complete in the next year.*

• Write more blog posts. Regularly.
• Learn proper web development. Not just the back end stuff I currently do sometimes. I want to learn how to do front-end stuff too. (Hear that sound? That’s the sound of all my web developer friends screaming in horror. My front-end developing skills are that legendary.)
• Create and launch at least one web site that will be beneficial to the community.
• Create and publish at least one mobile application. Most probably WP7 and/or Android.
• Exercise.

I think that’s enough goals. Although it seems like an year is too long time to achieve these things, I don’t want to be too optimistic right now.

*And if by any chance I fail to achieve these goals this blog post will be deleted without any sign of shame on my part.