Kia Ora

We've got rats. I'm not very surprised. They're warm, cuddly, and don't bite, so I think we can be friends.

So, I didn't get everything I wanted with my current provider, but they are much cleaner than my last and allow a lot more. I don't think I will be satisfied until I operate my own server. As far as providers go, I'm happy with the selection, and will recommend webschwerver to all my friends.

Herein will go some social posts (no drama), work, hobby, and school. I'll try to make good use of tags to help separate it all.

I'm not using a CMS and I do not expect I will this year. I do intend on developing a batch of redundant Perl and PHP scripts to generate my website and hopefully enable a semi-professional feel to them, though. That will have to wait until other weekends. I hope everything to share the same header with the pretty stars. They make me happy.

I'm currently TA'ing a course at my university and giving labs on how to use Office and Expression Web. While I wouldn't personally recommend proprietary tools for friends, I think they might be effective for the class's needs.

I've a greatly late German assignment due. Part of me says "Don't discuss it here, a future employer may one day read it and frown!" but then another part says "If I write reality, perhaps they can trust what I write, and not doubt me :)". I feel crippled before this simple assignment, as I fear its making me look foolish, naïve, or just plain stupid. It'll be submitted tonight or tomorrow morning, but I'll have lost 3% of my final mark over this fiasco. It's been very draining and stressful. I somehow think it will be the worst it all gets, which is relieving. I don't know why I feel so optimistic about it, though.

I have an interest in going to New Zealand starting in the summer, hopefully to do graduate studies at the University of Otago. I can't afford it right now, so I hope to work a little once I've graduated, and to earn scholarships that could either reduce my tuition to domestic levels or otherwise eliminate the burden.

Does anyone have a gp2x? I find it to be a fascinating device. The stylus has been lost, but apparently fingers are also effective.

Anyway, if you're interested in contacting me, I'm not too concerned about spammers, so you can actually click this: e-mail. Good bye.