Well here is my second post of the night. Nothing major just a brief outline of the major happenings in the chronicles of sushi. I have my first business idea, which is surprising because I've never considered myself a business man, more of an opportunist and an investor to other people's ideas. I'm drafting a business plan, I've earmarked an investor or two and co-opted a few talented colleagues to help me nurture this baby. Here's to hoping all goes well.
My MSc is on track. I'm starting a website dedicated to that very soon. It would give me some much need practice in web programming and also give me some exposure to future employers. It will probably grow into my main personal website and contain more serious articles. Watch this space..
The Dark Knight is out today! I'm going to watch that and hopefully kick start my weekend. I'll be back with a more meaningful post, maybe my first movie review. See y'all in Gotham City!
Friday, July 25, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
A few months on , a blog is born
So this blogging thing has been a failure of epic proportions, note i resisted the use of the phrase "epic fail". I knew from the off that it was going to be difficult to publish material on a regular basis. In light of that I've decided to take the drastic step of starting another blog! That's right folks, after failing to maintain one, I'm going to try my hand at two. The logic, flawed as it may be, is that when given greater responsibility one tends to rise up to the occasion. Fingers and all digits capable of crossing are in said state.
My one hope is that my new blog is not just some "random what happens in the life of sushi (me)" type blog that this one is. It has a more practical aspect to it. Since coming to varsity a long time ago, i was exposed to the wonderful world of computer science. Now at this point you have to realize that i grew up in an African country that, in my view at least, preferred one to take up certain subjects at A level toward the end of high school. These were, in order of significance, maths, physics, chemistry, biology, economics and accounts. From this glorious list, an A level student had to pick three and study them for what seemed to be the longest two years of one's life. As a result my last two years of high school consisted of Maths, Physics and Chemistry. Now while other subjects where available, such as the Geography's and English literature's of the world, the attitude towards them by some of the academic staff was more of errmmm.... In fact let me offer up a quote by one of the science teachers to help me make my point "At A level there are five subjects; maths, biology, physics, chemistry and others" .
Personally i did not agree with this point of view. Firstly i found that the geography students had a lot more fun in their triple periods than we ever did in our physics classes. Secondly while you were filled to the brim with theories and equations and were up to your nose in beakers and test tubes, no one bothered to teach you about life, and by life i mean what comes after you collect your results slips. I can understand why the five subjects where chosen as the elite among the plebeians, they had a clearer career path associated with them, in my home country at least. I should point out however that i thoroughly enjoyed M.P.C
The point of my tirade above was to highlight the fact that the society I grew up in tended to push you away from computer science or "computers" as it was known. I'm not one to cast blame onto others but at my school they actually made you choose between computers and maths. For anyone wanting to go into a scientific field of any sort that choice was made for you before it was even offered up to you. For a while i even shared their views, after all who would want to spend two years learning the nuances of MS Word anyway?
Needless to say these views changed drastically as I enrolled, ironically, for a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at a foreign university in the heart of Cape Town (xenophobia to be discussed in a later article). A world was opened to me that fateful 6th day of February in the year 200x, i discovered the power of the interwebs, the wonder that was programming and the joys of ummm ... varsity life :) While this was a great discovery, I'm afraid for most of my peers this was nothing but revision to them. Computer science was something they had been doing for as far back as they could remember. So from day one I was stuck playing catch up. For that reason alone i began to despise Computer Science, I spent the least amount of time possible doing it, I did just enough to pass, didn't attend lectures primarily because I didn't want to feel stupid as my classmates discussed Dijkstra's Algorithm while I struggled to grasp exactly how the nested for loop worked its magic.
Over time I started to like this whole coding thing, there was also a certain status afforded to the new guys who started computer science at varsity and didn't drop it after 2 weeks. As time passed more and more things started to make sense and that wonderful nested for loop was the key to my brilliant(by brilliant i mean, barely functional) undergrad thesis. Still, however i was not in the league of the baby comp sci kids. My coding skills can barely be described as proficient. I only know a couple of languages and don't know them well enough in my opinion.
So in a disparate attempt to rectify the above is were my new blog comes in. Ladies and gentleman, random internet folks and bots alike I give you
improvemycoding
obugallo....
Anyway, inside jokes aside, I decided to document my quest to break into the "good programmers" club. While programming is not my main focus (elec eng is) I have realized the better you are at it programming, the better your elec eng is. On my blog I will attempt little projects and document their progress, try out new languages and see how they go. I will try a multi platformed approach. Preferred OS is ubuntu, I cant afford Vista so I'm stuck with XP, and in Africa MaCs don't exist. All this in hope of improving my coding...
Without further a due head on down to the blog, I think there should be a post there by now. today I leave you with these wise words.
"With two blogs comes great responsibility"
My one hope is that my new blog is not just some "random what happens in the life of sushi (me)" type blog that this one is. It has a more practical aspect to it. Since coming to varsity a long time ago, i was exposed to the wonderful world of computer science. Now at this point you have to realize that i grew up in an African country that, in my view at least, preferred one to take up certain subjects at A level toward the end of high school. These were, in order of significance, maths, physics, chemistry, biology, economics and accounts. From this glorious list, an A level student had to pick three and study them for what seemed to be the longest two years of one's life. As a result my last two years of high school consisted of Maths, Physics and Chemistry. Now while other subjects where available, such as the Geography's and English literature's of the world, the attitude towards them by some of the academic staff was more of errmmm.... In fact let me offer up a quote by one of the science teachers to help me make my point "At A level there are five subjects; maths, biology, physics, chemistry and others" .
Personally i did not agree with this point of view. Firstly i found that the geography students had a lot more fun in their triple periods than we ever did in our physics classes. Secondly while you were filled to the brim with theories and equations and were up to your nose in beakers and test tubes, no one bothered to teach you about life, and by life i mean what comes after you collect your results slips. I can understand why the five subjects where chosen as the elite among the plebeians, they had a clearer career path associated with them, in my home country at least. I should point out however that i thoroughly enjoyed M.P.C
The point of my tirade above was to highlight the fact that the society I grew up in tended to push you away from computer science or "computers" as it was known. I'm not one to cast blame onto others but at my school they actually made you choose between computers and maths. For anyone wanting to go into a scientific field of any sort that choice was made for you before it was even offered up to you. For a while i even shared their views, after all who would want to spend two years learning the nuances of MS Word anyway?
Needless to say these views changed drastically as I enrolled, ironically, for a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at a foreign university in the heart of Cape Town (xenophobia to be discussed in a later article). A world was opened to me that fateful 6th day of February in the year 200x, i discovered the power of the interwebs, the wonder that was programming and the joys of ummm ... varsity life :) While this was a great discovery, I'm afraid for most of my peers this was nothing but revision to them. Computer science was something they had been doing for as far back as they could remember. So from day one I was stuck playing catch up. For that reason alone i began to despise Computer Science, I spent the least amount of time possible doing it, I did just enough to pass, didn't attend lectures primarily because I didn't want to feel stupid as my classmates discussed Dijkstra's Algorithm while I struggled to grasp exactly how the nested for loop worked its magic.
Over time I started to like this whole coding thing, there was also a certain status afforded to the new guys who started computer science at varsity and didn't drop it after 2 weeks. As time passed more and more things started to make sense and that wonderful nested for loop was the key to my brilliant(by brilliant i mean, barely functional) undergrad thesis. Still, however i was not in the league of the baby comp sci kids. My coding skills can barely be described as proficient. I only know a couple of languages and don't know them well enough in my opinion.
So in a disparate attempt to rectify the above is were my new blog comes in. Ladies and gentleman, random internet folks and bots alike I give you
improvemycoding
obugallo....
Anyway, inside jokes aside, I decided to document my quest to break into the "good programmers" club. While programming is not my main focus (elec eng is) I have realized the better you are at it programming, the better your elec eng is. On my blog I will attempt little projects and document their progress, try out new languages and see how they go. I will try a multi platformed approach. Preferred OS is ubuntu, I cant afford Vista so I'm stuck with XP, and in Africa MaCs don't exist. All this in hope of improving my coding...
Without further a due head on down to the blog, I think there should be a post there by now. today I leave you with these wise words.
"With two blogs comes great responsibility"
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
Its official, my first "real" post
Well here goes nothing. I've finally made time to write on this blog and it kinda feels good too. I should probably post a disclaimer first.
This blog is going to suffer from bad but interesting writing, the grammar will be mediocre, sentence construction not too amazing. Content might be boring to some, but to each man his own. One thing i have going for me is the spelling, thanks to this handy spell checker everything should be spelled correctly albeit maybe the wrong word in the right pace, ummm i mean place.
Now that that is out of the way, i should probably say a few thank yous, it took some nudging to get me off my lazy bum and actually start writing, so to my greatest fan, thank you, you are an inspiration and your wise words will always be... wait I'm still waiting for those.
I didn't know what to write about initially, to be honest i still don't. I decided to just make this my weekly rant, a sort of outlet. I might post more often but no promises. Topics will vary, what ever is going on in my life that i feel is pertinent for me to publicize to the hoards i will place here, everything else i will save for my therapy session. I've been keeping an eye on the blogosphere for a while now, and the few articles that I've read say for a successful blog you must keep to one topic or area of interest, and post frequently. While i would like to take the blogging world by storm and be an internet sensation, i doubt i have the literary prowess let alone an area of interest that would interest anyone else for that matter. So as far as my ambitions go, i only hope to have about 5-10 regular(read once a month) readers and once i get the hang of this I'll move the goal posts.
Speaking of which, man utd won today, so it's gonna be a great week. It's really strange how football affects my week. The season was starting to look a bit sad, what with all that talent we brought in. Scrappy win but a win nonetheless. I'll get into man utd in another post on another day. For now this will do, the blog is up and running, hopefully this will get me to come back and post some more. I'm hoping to get my own personal site up soon. Too much of my life is on the google servers so i need to cut out a chunk and place it on servers in Armenia or something.
Any free web hosts that you know of?
I'll end this with special birthday message to a friend of mine, hope you have a lovely day. I'd say who, but i think you're the paranoid type who doesn't like having their name on the interwebs. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
This blog is going to suffer from bad but interesting writing, the grammar will be mediocre, sentence construction not too amazing. Content might be boring to some, but to each man his own. One thing i have going for me is the spelling, thanks to this handy spell checker everything should be spelled correctly albeit maybe the wrong word in the right pace, ummm i mean place.
Now that that is out of the way, i should probably say a few thank yous, it took some nudging to get me off my lazy bum and actually start writing, so to my greatest fan, thank you, you are an inspiration and your wise words will always be... wait I'm still waiting for those.
I didn't know what to write about initially, to be honest i still don't. I decided to just make this my weekly rant, a sort of outlet. I might post more often but no promises. Topics will vary, what ever is going on in my life that i feel is pertinent for me to publicize to the hoards i will place here, everything else i will save for my therapy session. I've been keeping an eye on the blogosphere for a while now, and the few articles that I've read say for a successful blog you must keep to one topic or area of interest, and post frequently. While i would like to take the blogging world by storm and be an internet sensation, i doubt i have the literary prowess let alone an area of interest that would interest anyone else for that matter. So as far as my ambitions go, i only hope to have about 5-10 regular(read once a month) readers and once i get the hang of this I'll move the goal posts.
Speaking of which, man utd won today, so it's gonna be a great week. It's really strange how football affects my week. The season was starting to look a bit sad, what with all that talent we brought in. Scrappy win but a win nonetheless. I'll get into man utd in another post on another day. For now this will do, the blog is up and running, hopefully this will get me to come back and post some more. I'm hoping to get my own personal site up soon. Too much of my life is on the google servers so i need to cut out a chunk and place it on servers in Armenia or something.
Any free web hosts that you know of?
I'll end this with special birthday message to a friend of mine, hope you have a lovely day. I'd say who, but i think you're the paranoid type who doesn't like having their name on the interwebs. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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