OK, I discovered some images in my scraps while I was trawling through my gallery.

I just thought I should let you all know they are all about to be nuked, at least from DA. They are all pretty rubbish deviations, but nonetheless scarily insightful, which is the two main reasons for their deletion.

They should be up till this evening.

Hope your all having a good day
(It's sunny here for once)

OK, I really hope this doesn't sound too moody.

Recently, I posted two new deviations at around the same time:

1. A new deviantID which didn't take me long. Played around for a while with it, but still only an hours work.



Views: 6
Favourites: 1
+ 1 positive comment

4. A index page for a simple online portfolio. This took me about 5 hours (most of which was playing around and tweaking).



Views: 22
Favourites: 0

This seems to somewhat reinforce a general trend I am noticing with my DA gallery. My web designs get me plenty of pageviews but no one ever seems to like them enough to or comment on them.

I'm not looking for praise. It is just a fact that this year (as I said in New Year's Resolution's post ) I am going to be dedicating a lot of time to web design and this is something that may turn out to be a career for me.

So if you view no other deviations of mine all year, please view AND comment on my web design. Just to let me know what you like and what you don't.

I realise web design may not be why many of you decided to watch me or fav me in the past, but if you want to change the course of someone's life this year, please do so.

Even if your comments are to say all my web designs this year suck, at the very least I will know I need to change my style or scratch off web design from the career list .

Thanks for reading I hope that wasn't too shamefully moody. I also realise I haven't uploaded many (like 3!) web designs yet, but I felt the need to say something to you all.

I know its somewhat belated now, but I took some serious time to try and come up with workable/reasonable New Years Resolutions.

1. Get a distinction in my Computer Science MSc

2. Develop 3 applications in C++/C# or Python which fulfil a particular need.

3. Be a 7 handicapper on Stracka. I dont get to play competitive golf, but it would be nice to know that I am atleast close to being as good a golfer as I once was.

4. Be able to do 100 pushup. With help from [link]

5. Get 15,000 pageviews on deviantART. A vain wish I know, but I am hoping it keeps me focused on added new content to my page.

6. Read a book (non-academic) every month. I will also list on the blog what I have read.

7. Learn to drive. Obviously need to pass theory test first!

8. Get a rating of 1600+ on chesspark.

9. Become a CIW Associate (by passing Foundations course in HTML/CSS) and also pass Web Languages course (in Javascript/Perl).

10. Give up fizzy juice/soda.

11. Have a curfew on my computer use (11pm).

12. Decide what to do after my MSc. A programming job? Teaching? or phd? or something else.

13. Keep posting to my DA journal regularly for the whole year.

14. Keep my Windows XP OS installation going for the whole year. Don't keep switching between XP, Vista and Linux distros. Futhermore, backup my data to the internet and external hard drive and do regular images of my OS. I am allowed to dual-boot with Windows 7.

Things I Want

In addition to things I want to change, I also want to feed my material needs:

1. Get a digital camera. I'm so embarassed I don't own one.

2. Coffee Machine. I love coffee so much, but don't have a Coffee machine and am stuck drinking crap.

3. A quiet, cheap desktop computer. My main laptop is pretty powerful, but its too noisy and getting a bit rusty now (2 yrs old). Would love to read on my machine without sound of a fan in my ears.

4. Get all the other stuff (mainly cheap) on my Amazon Wishlist!

This post (and others) can also be found on my personal blog. If you check it out, I would be so happy

UPDATE: My goals have been slightly modified to make them a bit more specific. this seemed a good idea after reading this.