A few quick updates before I end this rather mundane post. I’m currently trying to learn Japanese, which is both fun and something I think will be useful in the future. I can already read both hiragana and katakana after just two weeks — it’s always more enjoyable when you really see the progress in front of you. One of the coming articles will be about the tools I use for learning Japanese. I just finished a course on WWII that resulted in a 48 page essay and I had such a great time writing it, although the seven course books was a bit of a struggle at times during the short ten week course which was only suppose to be part-time.

It seems like MacHeist season is about to begin again, which means that I will at the very least get a few new Mac applications to play with. I’ll definitely write some articles both on the apps from MacHeist and the experience, including the often superb but sometimes controversial marketing.

Finally I just wanted to make a quick comment on the fact that I love british comedy. Everything from QI to Peep Show and Coupling. These past months haven’t been easy to say the least, but being able to laugh for a few seconds or minutes is pretty much priceless.

Right now I’m studying for my exams in the courses “Design of IT” and “Database Systems I”. Besides the studies I’ve also recently started working with jQuery, which I think will be a great tool once I wrap my head around the “new” possibilities when I’m designing new sites. It feels like I’m still kind of stuck in the old way and so far haven’t had many practical uses for jQuery on any of my sites, but I think that will change soon, and if it does I’ll write down what I’ve done. I’ve also just started to dig into really learning Adobe’s Illustrator, I’ve often overlooked Illustrator and used Photoshop or InDesign instead. Now I’ve started to see the major benefits and will try to bring out my creative side again which has been a bit inactive lately.