JamesX

Well I can hardly believe it’s been almost a year since my 21st. It seems like only a month ago that we were all down there partying. I must admit though, that this year does seem to have gone faster than most. Knuckling down for uni and working all those extra hours at HC has certainly distracted me from other things.

With only two courses left at uni now, it’s so close to the end I can’t wait! It begs the question “what am I doing after that?” and it’s one that I keep getting asked. The answer is, I just don’t know. There are so many factors and so many possibilities. I guess it will all begin to unfold in the coming months.

In other uni related news, I had my membership approved for the Australian Computer Society today. So I’m now a Student member, but that will get upgraded to a Provisional Professional once I finish my degree in June next year. It’s a good thing to have accreditation like this as it’s an industry recognised program, and the extra letters after the name can’t hurt the resume!

Anyway, that’s all for now. I’m still procrastinating about this uni report so blog entries, Facebook and MySpace (which I finally took the time to overhaul last night) seem to be taking a beating in preference of doing actual work. I probably should get back to it now.

You know pretty much everyone is on the internet nowadays - you are reading this page after all! But it’s grown into such a huge mass of useless information that just finding the people out there that you know from the millions of others is quite a daunting task. But there are a few ways and one by one people seem to twist me into signing up for all these sites so to promote healthier networking, I’m going to shamelessly plug them all here in the hope that those who aren’t members can sign up and find me!

Of course everyone knows the old timers like schoolfriends.com.au, after all, it’s been around for years. And most people have heard of, or are likely members of, MySpace.com. But I bet most of you haven’t used Facebook.com before. The underlying principle behind all these sites is to be able to find your friends and network with them so that as they move on in their lives, you can keep track of them. A novel concept, and one I didn’t really believe in until recently when I managed to discover people I haven’t seen since school and have now arranged to catch up with. The possibilities are really quite astounding.

Of course you have to get over the “my personal information is out there on the web” phobia, but really most sites take this into account nowadays. After all, the Internet only knows what you give it (unless of course you spider every known document on every known media on the planet aka Google).

So get out there and find your long lost friends!