These “hi and welcome to my blog” first posts are always a little awkard…
So… Hi and welcome to my blog!
This whole blogging thing to me is more an experiment than anything. I don’t intend to focus a lot of time, energy and attention to this blog — how true this statement is I’m not quite sure. You see, I’ve just spent the last half hour flicking through the Theme Viewer from the WordPress website and writing down which ones I think are suitable for this blog. Yes George, sure… you’re not spending much attention to this blog at all…
Anyway, I hope you don’t mind introducing myself. My name is George, I live in Melbourne, Australia and I am a web developer/database administrator. I have two jobs, one is full-time and the other is managing a business that a very good friend of mine and myself have started up a few months ago.
The full-time job is pretty good, it’s for a major telecommunications company in Australia, and even though the commute to work and back again is a little long, I am usually happy when I get to work and when I get home. The commute to work and back has gotten easier over time, juggling timetables and calculating times that I must be up by / must leave home by / must be at train station by / etc. You would think that I had gotten used to this since uni days, but let the truth be told that everyone at uni is lazy, and half of the time don’t show up to lectures/tutes… so that wasn’t a good analogy… hmm.
The part-time job is even better. Working with someone else who can share the responsibility with you is so much better than doing it on your own. There is always someone to talk to about the business, who has the same passion and interests in the company — this prevents you from talking about your company to someone else (family, friends, etc) to the point of where their ears start to bleed. It also gives you some creative feedback and perhaps even tangents or different directions on doing things. I’ve learnt a lot in opening up our small business, and things are doing quite well.
aCore Solutions is a technology consulting firm focusing on the web development and implementation of internet related strategies. aCore Solutions’ services are designed to provide an integrated approach to business strategy with respect to use web technologies. With a strong understanding of business combined with the flexibility of a number of platforms, network technologies and web programming with a very strong understanding of accessibility and usability, aCore Solutions is in a solid position to design and implement comprehensive solutions to meet its client’s needs.
I’ll figure out how to do nice-looking pull-quotes in WordPress some time later.
I am also an Apple nut, I have always admired the good design of Apple hardware and how the marriage is made between it and Apple software. My first Mac was a Performa 5800CD that I had acquired about 5 years ago — it had System 7.6 installed and was an ex-education machine (i.e. used in a school, i.e. has pen marks all over it, i.e. all the Apple symbols were coloured in with blue pen). I upgraded the machine to Mac OS8, added more RAM and a bigger hard drive. It then was promptly shoved into my wardrobe on the floor, where it sat for 4 years before I chucked it out. Apple hardware and software is so much better now. I currently own a 15″ Apple PowerBook (1.67GHz) SuperDrive model. I love it and I use it all the time — the Windows XP machine is sitting here beside me, gathering dust due to lack of being switched on.
Other interests of mine that are non-geeky include watching movies and tinkering with my car. I own a 1995 BMW 525i E34 and love it to death. It’s dark green (Oxfordgrünmetallic in BMW-speak) and had done 180,000km when I bought it. I am very happy with my car, it is my first and I think I have done well. And if you don’t agree with me… post a comment!
That’s all from me for the time being. We’ll see how often I update this blog — who knows, I might actually get hooked on this thing.