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Thought 9

Manual work and heat like this DO NOT MIX!

Thought 8

I’m picking up french radio on my pc speakers, must be the heat!!

Thought 7

IT’S TOO F***ING HOT!!!

Half-Years Resolutions

It’s a little bit late, or a little bit early but I feel like doing some more resolutions, I made a number of them at the start of the year, which I feel I kept to pretty well, so now I want to re-assess my goals, set my self some more targets and aim even higher.

• Less procastination - I tend to push some boring and tendious things down my todo list, and avoid doing them, from now on I’ll get them out of the way as soon as possible instead.
• Attempt to be less shy - I can be incredibly shy when it comes to phone calls or asking people for help, as well as being very quiet when I meet new people, I’m not sure how I’ll change the quietness, but I can definatly change my shyness on the phone.
• Keep pushing with my business - I’ve started, so I can’t drop out now. I need to put as much effort into every part of running the business as I possibly can.
• Not only learn new things, but expand my knowledge in existing areas - I want to catch up with my C# as well as learning the new web technologies like Ruby on Rails.
• Improve my design skills - I’m good with css and xhtml, but I’ve been struggling to make really good looking sites. Again not sure how I’m going to do that, at the moment I’m getting Lauren to help me do the designs for sites and I translate them into a site.
• Expand my portfolio - I want more examples and show cases of work I’ve done, and the only way to do that is by doing some work!!

I’ve also reshuffled my “Technologys and Languages” list, these are things I want to learn or improve on over the rest of the year:

• Ruby on Rails - I’m loving what I have learnt so far, once I have a firm grasp on Rails I’ll delve into a bit more Ruby too.
• Javascript - Another essential web technology, also required for writing firefox and songbird extensions.
• Flash/Actionscript - Flash has always taken a backseat for me, I don’t need it yet, but I’m sure I will sometime.
• Illustrator CS - I still get frustrated at home this works, but some of the results that come out of it looks amazing, the kind of things I can’t do in photoshop.
• Linux - Mainly ubuntu, I feel like I have only jsut dipped into Linux, there is so much more to learn.
• OSX - Not a world away from XP, and nowhere near as complex as Linux, the only thing that has stopped me doing this yet is my lack Mac!

Thought 6

I’m back to 8-5 working next week so I doubt I’ll have much energy left to blog, so I’ve done a few today instead

Billy Talent Live this Saturday too!!