Friday is here but there is not much to look forward to away from the television. The whole weekend in fact, with international European Championship qualifying matches and the return of a forgotten hero. Rather an empty weekend, but I do not mind. It makes the hectic weekends worth waiting for, three weekends and counting! A extremely busy week has just flown by but I still feel a sense of underachievement. While in Dublin, (on business) on Monday evening, I found myself stuck in the hotel with no computer. As you can imagine, no internet in the evening was difficult for me. Awkward, I was close to being irritable. (My colleagues on the helpdesk would say I am always irritable) I should have at least taken my work PDA along and accessed limited web sites and MSN. There was wireless coverage across the hotel complex plus each room had ethernet points, to plug in your cap5 cable (as refereed to in the guest information booklet) Instead I was stuck with a television with a fancy non operational menu system which did not work. So to watch television I had to actually go up and change the channel on the box. How primitive is that? Back in the office for three days but not making much progress on anything. Hopefully next week will be better.

Nazma, an honoury member of my blog roll, has updated her blog roll and I was intrigued by the title of one of the links, Asian Blogger so headed over to the site. Rather new, so not many posts but nevertheless an excellent design, simple layout and straight forward tag line, ‘Dedicated to Young Asians’. Of my many regrets (a countless number, which perhaps I can recall in another post) one that perhaps comes to mind is the fact I should have started blogging before University and recorded the transition from college nobody to geeky fresher. Instead, all I have our entries from September 2003 which chart my final year, which is better than nothing. Looking at this blog, it brought home what could have been all those years ago, but at least I can read the story from the perspective of someone else, which itself will be interesting and rewarding. Over recent weeks I have thought I should do more with my time online, something more worthwhile. I spend a minimum of three hours online every evening after work, sometimes more. There must be a way of channeling this time into something productive. Rather than just reading blogs, watching videos on You Tube and downloading various forms of digital media. Well, someone has answered the call. This is just the type of thing I need to get myself involved in. Nothing confirmed yet, I will e-mail AB tomorrow and hopefully he will get back to me soon.

Perhaps things are going to get better sooner than I think.