Starting Again

So I pretty much abandoned this Blog a couple of years ago and have just now decided to start up again. I'm not sure if I have terribly important things to say but I feel like more people should hear my opinion, especially regarding technology.

I guess a status update on my life is a good start though:

I'm now 25 years old and no longer an Intern. Since working at Hamilton City Council I moved to Lower Hutt and spent a year working as a Business Analyst at Foodstuffs Wellington. I felt that the position was not going anywhere career wise so took up an Application Support Analyst position at ESR.

The goal was to work in a sort of hybrid role becoming involved in app support as well as analysis on small pieces of work. Despite some setbacks I now have a rough outline of the path to becoming a BA and will hopefully be going on a Business Systems Analysis course before the end of the year.

I recently asked my girlfriend of 6 years Laurelle to marry me and have attached a picture of the ring on her finger.

We are planning a long engagement of around 2 years. Hopefully this leaves us enough time to save for it and plan well enough to make it a perfect occasion.

Pretty much as soon as we got engaged there was a Wedding Expo going on in Wellington so I ended up going to that. It seems like Weddings are now highly commercialised and anything relating to weddings is given a large price increase.

I guess the other thing that's changed is that I'm now an Android fanboy so might start posting about that.

Here's a list of potential topics that I could cover:

• Board Games e.g. Catan, Stone Age, Carcassonne
• Android Apps/Games as I've noticed there are very few game reviews for Android
• Devices that I'm interested in
• Ways to stay anonymous after the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill comes into effect in NZ September 1st 2011 (VPNs, Seedboxes etc)
• General NZ consumer item reviews
• What it's like working in the IT industry
• Anything technology related that I'm interested in
• Wedding planning