4 Years Later.. Bits 'n' Mega-bites TNG (The Next Generation)

I am hereby restarting my tech blog! *fanfares and smashing champagne bottles*. Why, well... Firstly, I have a bit more time on my hands these days as I am currently seeking employment after my admin job went tits up recently. Wasn't for me. Along with that, the data/Google revolution has improved my knowledge and experience with tech exponentially since my last post 4 years ago. Online video courses, tutorials and information on just about anything in tech you have time to learn is now at my disposal and I am more than willing to use it. I also have my own internet connection that I don't have to steal any more which makes things a little easier.

As I am not really educated in tech at all, leaving our IT (or back then it was just computer class) suite furnished with the old Apple Mac Classic computers (we weren't allowed the good ones), and since have had no other formal education in the IT sector (save a business & admin NVQ3 qualification). I have started my A+ certification (for free I might add), but I'm afraid it's really just for the paperwork, something to pad my CV a little, I know a bit on every headng on the course syllabus, and to be honest the parts I don't know, in my 20 odd years of messing with tech, I have not yet needed to use. I do have the passion and usually if in a conversation, online lecture or piece of literature I come across something I haven't heard of, I will at least look up a definition. So I'm sure I'll pick up some useful knowledge whether i want it at the time or not.

I have more or less moved all of my development to the Linux platform, and if you don't know the answer to why, you are banished from reading my blog any further. No, not really, other systems are okay, just Linux seems to be 'real deal' as far as getting a device to do what you want it to.

I still use Windows for my desktop, steam has more games on it, and eh.. yeah that's about it. Again I am being a little biased, the truth is that Linux just hasn't produced a desktop environment that is as easy as Windows, it is coming close with the likes of (apparently) Mint, and like Windows, Linux can have it's doozies(I am thinking Unity here) *I hear Linux fanboy/girls in an uproar outside my flat*, but believe me, I have been using both for years and it's true, for most people in the real world, Windows is probably easier and less buggy as a Desktop OS. Oh, and I'm not talking the Windows 8 monstrosity, I mean windows 7 or the soon to be obsolete (at least if you don't want your ass hacked) ol' faithful XP.

As far as Macs go, well remember the old Macintosh Classics i talked about, complete with the 'Works' package, well that is all I have as a reference. I just don't like apple. I know they have a build quality and asthetics that are second to none, and are top of the class in the design and media production sector. Overpriced proprietary sh**e. Sorry, you will get a lot of bias in my blog, and if you are reading this on your new Mac-book pro, you will no doubt read in nice crystal clear text that I am not interested in buying into the whole iPigeonhole™ bulls**t.

Although I am enjoying this writing caper thoroughly, I am in danger of writing my complete memoirs in one blog post here, so I will leave any other ramblings for another time. Adios!