GoneWacko’s Blog

New car!

Well, just a short post.

Just wanted to tell you all that the new car arrived, a VW Touran.

Click on the thumbnails for larger versions

Too bad I can’t drive in it for another couple of months: My 18th birthday is in June (20th), and after that I’ll still need to get driving lessons

I’ll post something bigger when I have time.

Looking for work

I have come to the conclusion that I need to stop being a lazy bum and start getting some work done. Not only because I got a 41 out of 100 for my last (diagnostic) test at school (boring subjects this semester…), but also because a bank balance of €2,20 does not get you very far in this world.

However, I do not really want to get a job at a manufacturing plant or something. Instead, I’ve been doing some looking around for people in need of a Java, PHP, Python, Delphi (heck, who knows?!), C (might need some brushing up on that one…) programmer.

Not had too much luck, I did see one or two adverts of companies looking for experienced and/or student-programmers. I may contact them tomorrow, see if they’re interested.

Also, two friends of mine are seriously considering to start their own hosting-and-webdesign business, and I might end up tagging along. I’ll probably not be a competitor of Owen’s Zernebok Hosting though - although you never know

All quiet on the GoneWacko front

Yes, I have once again not updated the blog in a while. This is because nothing worth mentioning happened to me. Still, I’ll just tell you what’s been going on.

I’ve just been going to school, doing business related work (merging two ICT businesses is boring) and learning about the various corporate bodies that are available in the Netherlands, which supposedly relates to ICT and Product Quality Assurance - Don’t ask me how.

Furthermore, my parents left for Portugal yesterday. They shall return next week, however, because they’re just on a holiday. Still, that means I’m home alone this week, which is nice because I can crank up the volume without disturbing anybody (unfortunately I’ve recently been feeling a little bored with my music, I should really get some new albums and/or discover some new bands/artists).

Also, just before my parents left, the car dealership called to tell us the new car was finished - we ordered a Volkswagen Touran which looks kind of ugly but also kind of neat. Furthermore, it’s still a brand new car with all kinds of features we have never had in our car before (our previous car didn’t even have air conditioning, for example), so that’s pretty exciting.

Also, recently I’ve been experimenting with Django, which is quite a nice Python web framework, not unlike Ruby on Rails, except for some features and that it’s in Python and thus is cool.
I’ve not really been able to think of anything to try Django with though, so if you’ve got any ideas for something that I ought to try writing, please do give them to me
(unfortunately Yoda - the server that hosts this website - does not have Django installed and it does not seem to be supporting it properly currently, so I don’t think I’ll be using it in a ‘production environment’ any time soon considering the fact that the only other server I have (access to) is a 233 MHz machine on a 8/1 Mbit/sec pipe…)