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Have you ever noticed those blogs of people who think they're being cute when they post little one paragraph posts like "Oh my gosh, I bought a new T-shirt today! It was uber uber cool! And Savannah was all NO WAY and I was all YES WAY. Anyway, got to go! XOXO" Its these types of blogs which pepper Live Journal to the point of annoyance. You will more than likely find blogs of people who thought they'd be cool and create a blog in 2003, post one entry and then just ignore it in the intervening 5 or so years. It allows for quite a strenuous process of finding a username of choice.

For those of you who follow me on twitter, you would note that I finished a math exam to which I termed was "approaching like a bull on viagra". Being the last examination of the term, it left me at somewhat of a loss. I mean, I won't say that I am one of these studious students who come home every night and get right into the books and study for 1.5 hours per night or what have you, but I have done quite a bit of extra work over the last week and coming home yesterday afternoon I sat down with a math book open next to me and realized - in a moment of utter clarity - that I left the tap running all day. Ha, I bet you weren't expecting that now were you? Hmm? No, didn't think so.

I've been trying to work out how I might successfully use my time wisely these holidays. Because I usually end up with a distinct lack of cohesion by the end of the period - this time being 2 weeks. Although I am going down to Melbourne to visit my friends Cassie and Ashleigh so it should turn out to be quite enjoyable. But for the remaining time that's left to me, I'd rather like to get stuck into structuring some of the programming languages I have started learning over the years and then put down because I haven't had enough time to complete. My brother is pressuring me to learn groovy and grails, which - to put it crudely - is virtually a modified Java port with remotely ruby syntax. But when looking at the resources available, it requires more of an object orientated hierarchy understanding and personally, a bit of Java experience. So, putting that aside I really want to finish learning ruby as I never really got to consolidate it and then if I manage that, to go on to do ruby on rails and finally, WX ruby or ruby cocoa, depending on whether I am in a windows frame of mind or a mac frame of mind. Speaking of mac, I also need to familiarize myself with the applescript language as it would prove to be quite useful if I go into mac permanently. For those of you who don't use macs, I would probably liken applescript to something along the lines of batch scripting for windows or for linux users, I suppose bash. The annoying thing is that I want to learn so much but school tends to get in the way. At the moment, here are the languages that are on my todo list:

• applescript


• grails


• Java


• python


• PHP and MYSql


• Ruby Cocoa


• ruby on rails


• WX ruby


• XHTML

So, my work is kind of cut out for me at the moment.

Ah, I think I can hear some people stirring in the house, so I better get up and do something useful at least. This entry has been brought to you by Bootcamp and a reasonably smelly ... wait for it ... sock! Ha, another unexpected turn of events.