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Using energy wisely

{ March 27, 2007 @ 7:38 pm } · { In the news, Random streams of conciousness }
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I love the random trivia throughout the free paper available to weekday train travelers and always look for a seat with one tucked in the side if I don’t have a book with me. Tonights gem was a small piece reporting a study on the lure of sweet treats. It apparently found that those who nibbled on something yummy often got their tasks done. My favourite suggestion is that it sometimes takes valuable mental energy to resist the temptation of chocolate or lollies, which results in a depletion of the resources and will you have to finish what it is you’re trying to do.

I’ve been thinking about ways to get back into blogging, as a way of recording what I’m thinking and have learned recently. I thought trying some non work/web related topics would help. Specifically, I hope that some one else having as much trouble as me finding out information on a certain topic might find my post and benefit from the research I’ve done. The first idea I have is to write up a bit of a review on my new phone the Nokia 6300 (I love it!) with all the bits that I was trying to find out, rather than the usual regurgitation of spec pages.

If I could just feed my inner monster some of the chocolate it’s begging for (thank you all retail stores with Easter displays up for the past month), I might be able to sit down and write that review.

Hrmm… where to start?

{ September 7, 2006 @ 6:42 pm } · { Random streams of conciousness }
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I suppose somewhere, anywhere is the best place. Bare with me while I get this hang of this. With help and encouragement from by boss to start blogging, I figure I might as well give it a go. It’s almost a requirement of my job (I should probably double check the contract) to involve myself in such a phenomenon and once I do get into it I hope this will become a bit of a playground for me to further my CSS skills (or lack of, as it seems to be for now) and mash up the currently sparse bits and pieces of my personality, scattered throughout the web.

There’s no particular topic or style I’m going for as yet, more than anything this blog will probably document my effort of finding things to be interested in and passionate about, related to my work and otherwise. After four years at Uni I’ve stepped out and just been blown away by everything that I don’t know, and even more so by what I’m not even aware of. The first few months out I had a “break” to recuperate and observe all that I had somehow missed during the previous 12 months while studying and writing an honours thesis. I took my time, half-heartedly job searching to keep my financiers (read:parents) happy but thinking there was no way I could stay in the area and get a great job at the same time.

Then, almost accidentally due to a little personal networking, I applied for a position at Omnidrive and was hired as a developer in the Australian office, close to home and not mind-numbingly dull, but more about all that later. The past 3 months I’ve been working here my eyes have been blown wide open and I’m becoming more and more aware of what I don’t know, but more importantly, I’m being shown where to look to find out all sorts of things. So if nothing else (though I’m sure this wont be the case) right now my curiosity is being well and truly fed.

No promises about frequency or quality of postings for the time being, but I’ll be trying to amuse myself and in the process hopefully amuse or entertain anyone wishing to read my shiny new blog. Till next time…