It’s another week. As other friends have already finished their school for the summer, I’m gearing up for my finals, a lovely time of late night studying and plotting to sneak in crib notes (I won’t do that, I swear).

One of the strangest things I’ve found out about Facebook is the odd variety of people I have added as friends on there. I have my usual group of friends, the ones I talk to and hang out with, but as being a geek, I have my online friends- people that I’ve met online. It’s a very funny feeling to be talking to a local friend about the other people on your friends list and wondering why i have so many friends from England for some odd reason. The lists feature Facebook implemented helps me in creating lists from different groups of friends- the friends from high school, the friends from my time as a webcomics reviewer, things like that. It’s also so completely strange to find your old high school teacher on it, too. Small world?

I’ve been quietly working on projects at the moment, something I’ve been doing for quite some time now. I own multiple domain names, and trying to come up with what to do with them is something I’ve been thinking about for quite some time now. I have an overall plan on what I want to do with them, which I’ve been calling “Project Blackwatch Plaid”. (The name of the project is actually a reference to a TV show- 10 points to whomever can name it.) Full details will come as we choose to release it, but let’s just say that it won’t be until fall till some of the larger sites will appear. (although I do have my own personal site coming out in the following weeks, so i can have someting to start with.) My own porfolio site is currently being worked on. I’ve never played around with WordPress, but to have a small/medium site that has a straightforward content basis, it’s perfect. I don’t know if I’d build a site that would be so big to use WordPress, but for now, it’s fine for what I have planned for it.

A big switch I’ve done is making my mac switch to OS X 10.5 Leopard. While this not may be big for some, this does bring out the xcode system and dashcode tools to my computer, something I was sorely missing for programing purposes. I want to start learning multiple programming languages, and Objective C is one of them. PHP and MySQL are two other ones. I’m hoping I can start learning some PHP by playing around a bit with the Facebook API. I have a couple of ideas with the Facebook API- first and foremost, being the creation of a couple of mashups with other popular sites. I’m looking forward to what I can pull off with this stuff.

I found Chuck Palahniuk’s latest book, Snuff. I’ve been a fan of his work since Fight Club, and this latest one seems to be as twisted as his other books- something about a giant gangbang and a conversation between Mr. 72, 137, 600 while waiting to be part of… the festivities. Oh so twisted. I love it so. Going to read it over the weekend.

Now it’s time to clean.