Hello Universe

Okay. This is my blog. I'm starting it for real now. That last post was an assignment I did for College and is the reason why I made this thing in the first place. I don't expect anyone will be reading this post right now but I'm putting it up just to get me started so the next one I post isn't this one if you follow. Maybe in a few years when this particular blog is world famous and completely awesome people will decide to check out the original posts to see how far I've come. That is exactly what I want from this for those people and myself. A chronicle of the rise to excellence which I will undergo or at least a log of what I happen to do with my daily self between now and the future.

So whats on the agenda. If you're reading this post then I'm guessing as we've said before that you'll be reading it in the future after previously reading my previous future posts so you'll know better then than I do now about what exactly is going on......... I'm gonna lay it down anyway.

I'm a computer games development student at UCLan in Preston. It's now summer time and I've just finished my first year which I reckon I've passed so I'm gonna leave off the boring crap for the next few months and concentrate on what I hope to be doing with myself in the future, namely, web design, mobile-apps(i-phone, palm, maybe android - we shall see eh) and my main aim is to bring back the golden days of gaming, which for me means, Super Mario 3. Not just that game of course but I think if you were to describe an era of gaming by bunching it all into one particular game that would be the one I would choose.

So where is it exactly on the path I am at the moment? Looking at my plan for the day which is hanging in front of me I can see that I'm supposed to - "Work On App", "Work On Website". What that means is this. I found out a few weeks ago that there was a group of students in my college who develop smart-phone apps. Not only that, but they're already getting paid for it. Not only are they getting paid for it, but they're also being provided with the contracts by the college. "Sign me up" I said. And they did. They were more than happy to. My plan was to learn how to make i-phone apps and sell them for lots of money. Apple however have decided that seen as I forgot to buy an apple product of some kind that I should be refused access to the tools which I need to begin said production. So I decided to browse the other options available. What did I have to choose from. Why don't I tell ya. Blackberry, Symbian, Android, Samsung, Window's Mobile and probably some more if I could remember. I checked em out. I decided finally I would give Android a try as that's Google, and as it's Google it must simple and intuitive. I tried it. No. Not for me at that time. I tried Symbian. Na, too much development options. Not for the beginner really. Then one day as I was watching my Stanford lectures on youtube I came across a video of some guy explaining webOS, the operating system ( or something) of the Palm phone. He explained as a new dawn in the area of smart-phone /slash/ web-development. Awesome, that's exactly what I wanted. So I tried it out. And here I am a few weeks later still using this stuff. It's well cool. So easy to pick up and just start doing it. Too easy in fact. Easy enough to make me think, "If it's this easy, surely it can't be that good? Cos to make something good on a computer involves it being really difficult." "No?" "Just that easy you say?" Yes it is. Quite simple yet quite effective. That's what I've found with Palm development. I'm now putting together some basic but cool apps which with a bit of tweaking could be earning me a bit of money. Which I like.

I'm gonna leave it there for now cos I got's work in the morning. And I also get to talk about something else in my next post which is probably going to be on the other item on my to-do list. It's back up a bit. And I'll also go into a bit more detail on Palm dev.