A Year On..

So tonight i was going through this blog, and its prevoius posts, and went as far back as when i re-imaged this blog. which was (11 or 12)/12/2009 and i just noticed i havent posted it being a year old!

As much as this doesnt get constant blogs posted, just  usually something random happening in my life (which as far as im aware, is all the time!), i think for a year old, its still an achievement in some form, it may not reach to many people and wont appeal to many, espiecially on an important topic, but it allows me to be open to express whats going on, and anyone ive met online prop looking at it, and thinking, “God..this is a random guy talking nonsense, *close tab and ignore future postings*”

But im not put off by that as much, sure, its not the greatest blog, it will never be something that will be a huge hit on the web (but i can wish cant i?).

Agenda for 2011

So its now 2011…..and it’s hopefully going to finally be a year where i know what i want as far as life goes….
My current agenda is the following:

• Get a Job (either here in New Zealand or abroad)
• Get stuck into the following bits of coding:
• PHP/MySQL (Basically expand my knowledge)
• Perl would be a handy option too
• HTML5, CSS, Javascript – JQuery, WebGL
• Ajax

Its a rough outline of what is going to be undoubtly going to be an interesting year especially on the job front..I would still like to consider abroad simply for placing  myself in a good web dev position when im ready to make the move to I.T., but it will be somewhat harder to get the job from here nad get over there, but no harm in trying right?

Steam Specials are evil!

So Steam (http://www.store.steampowered.com) have been having these really really good specials on for the holidays, and the reason why i say they are evil as they are that good sometimes! each day, new specials etc

Ive bought about 6 games from the specials and so ive spent quite abit of money on them XD

I bought the following games:

• Assassin’s Creed 2: Deluxe Edition – $26.24 USD
• Battlefield 2: Complete Collection – $3.74 USD
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Standard Edition – $13.60 USD
• Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition – $14.99 USD
• Mini Ninja’s – $9.99 USD
• DiRT 2 – $4.99 USD

So you could say roughly ive prop spent just under $100NZD on steam games in the last week XD
It has been hard resisting on a couple of games simply due to price and would i play it as much (for example, GTA: IV, Just Cause 2) so yeah.

So now its going to be hard not buying any more steam games for a while XD

- ddwagnz

The Job Hunt Overseas

Well ive said it on twitter and facebook so I’ll post it here in finer detail..

Right then, to put it bluntly the job market isn’t great here in New Zealand and its prop not as great overseas as well but its probably better than here, but anyway, ive decided id at least consider looking for work overseas, at this stage im going out of my reach and look at either United Kingdom or United States for retail work if i can. You may be thinking “Dave/ddwagnz has not really thought of the flaws and problems surrounding this idea” or along those lines, but i have considered the flaws in the plan and problems that surround this decision.

My basic CMS

Ok so this is one of my things i started when i was in Natcoll learning Object-Oriented Programming in php, its a very bringing gravel to one’s knees basic cms..well thats the aim of it…
Lately ive been neglecting some of my other little projects like my DVDDB re-code, and Got-Lan’s Lan Admin, davidBB (Server side assignment which never got finished ((surprise there =P))) and i think, thats it for now, lately job hunting has been top priority, expect when your sick you cant exactly do much, so ive been touching on my CMS i started, i decided to set a goal with this:|

Music Addiction…its a serious condition….(not really!)

Ha! made you read it!

Anyway…

Talking of music, i have a addiction to a couple of songs this last day and abit…

Canterbury Earthquake

Hi Guys,

been ages since last post, but i’m doing this now as its er happened and i need to stress this point to most people while i can…

As you all no doubt have heard, i live in a city in New Zealand which was recently hit with a 7.1 earthquake and aftershocks are still happening. And im quite freaked out still, tired and overall stressed over this, even though i have no job or that, but im very much worried almost every minute of everyday.

Right, as i was saying, For the time being, and i don’t think I’ll want to go into too much detail for a few months (i’ll prop forget but just try and remember this post) that goes for pretty much everyone who reads this, ie IRC peeps and fb and twitter peeps

Its not fun, and even though im fine, its really psychologically and mentally unhinged me, and am very nervous every night and most of the day and evening while at home.

I may talk about it but don’t drawl on it too long…

Many thanks,

To those who have my cellphone can still keep in touch, i’ll try and keep my twitter updated when i can, and same with facebook.

Also, im heading up to nelson for a week and half to mainly try and get away from this and plus parents are going away to aussie.

Till next time i guess

- David

My 21st

So Wednesday was my 21st b/day and here is a rundown of my day…

Couple new Youtube Videos Uploaded recently….

Well i know some of you have prop seen these before but if you havent not to worry here they are again.

These are random videos nothing more, but i’ll give a breif rundown on them if i can/want to, otherwise check out the description stuff by heading over to my youtube channel and watching there

http://www.youtube.com/user/ddwagnz

End of a Era (Natcoll)

Well, tomorrow Friday (NZ Time) will be my last day of my web development course that i have been doing for the last ten or so months. Unfortunately i am coming out of the course without a diploma  and I’m ok with it.