It's Christmas! (Almost)
Anyway, as the season is upon us I get a nice break from university, from the 12th of December to the 12th of January. This gives me a bit of time to actually do something instead of talking about things I'd like to do.
Jobs / Site plans
At university these past few months I've been hunting for a placement job.
For those not in the know, an industrial placement is basically just a year out working in the industry you hope to end up in. My university is extra nice and gives us a whole extra diploma for taking a placement, which is always handy.
So I updated my CV, customised it for each employer, put it in multiple formats and so on. Sent it off to 4 companies, had 3 replies so far, 2 interviews and one job offer so far. The one thing I noticed was that most applications wanted a link to a personal website, if you had one. Or it would at least be brought up in interviews because of the work I've done and the places I applied to.
So I've actually started to have important people looking at my site and judging me based on it...not a good thing when the site is as poor as this one currently is.
My solution is to start working on Palmnet version 3 (Pv3), and to actually start working on it this time because I have a good reason to re-code it all.
Plans are as have been mentioned a few times before, but hopefully with more finesse that would make potential employers swoon at the simplicities of the design and intricacies of the code. As I have two weeks after Christmas that were planned for revision time (5 exams coming up at the end of Jan/start of Feb) I shall no doubt start coding then to help me relax while revising.
Kevin, the skilled photoshop ninja he is, has been cranking out some rather fancy pants designs and an awesome logo too. So expect the site to actually look good when compared to the past four years of my creative design skills.
Christmas
I'm a bit of a Grinch as of the past couple of years.
After working in a pub once over Christmas I now utterly detest all Christmas songs. Except Fairytale of New York which is just plain awesomeness all year round.
I'm also too old now, according to my parents, for those cool presents I used to get (19 is not too old). So now I'm dreading crappy gifts and just wanting the money instead so I can pay bills and eat!
Not much to say other than that really.
Bah Humbug! But yay for the time off uni 
Projects
As is fairly traditional, whenever there's a holiday I tend to come up with a few little projects.
This year I might not start anything new and instead work on re-designing and re-coding all my old projects to bring them up to date. Everything currently is so inconsistent and just needs an overhaul to keep them in shape.
A few old projects that never got finished in the first place might have to make their way to completion too if I can get time. (Shoutboxes being top on my priority there)
I do have one project up my sleeve, but it is a rather big one so not sure whether I'll start it now or wait until the other work is finished, have to wait and see.