In the beginning...

So what is this blog supposed to be about? For me it's largely a bit of an experiment. Partially to practice writing, partially to try opening up a bit, and largely because I often see various bits of human behaviour that interests me, but I never seem to talk about it. On top of that I'm likely to blog about anything in particular, or tell stories of what's happened in my past. In short, this blog is largely going to be about various things I have and will experience. I except that at first only my friends will really read this blog, but as time goes on I hope that other readers such as friends of friends might pick it up.

What I don't want this blog to be is an online diary, I would like for this blog to be a place of discussion; not my own, larger scale twitter. I'm also hoping that the people who do read this blog will take a part in it. I want to know what other people think, I want to hear other people's opinions. To me, what would be ideal is something like a Flog (Forum-Blog), where I could write an article and there would be an open environment to discuss it. To me blog comments have always seemed less open to discussion compared to a forum. Anyway, for the time being I'll settle for blog comments and if I get a large enough response I might open up something else.

Moving on, I guess I should probably give an introduction. My name is Lex, I live around Melbourne Victoria (that's in Australia for those of you who don't know), I'm a 21 year old male currently differed from my Computer Science degree at The University of Melbourne until the next semester starts. My main two interests would be video games and anime.

In terms of video games I grew up with classic platformers and RPGs on the SNES, and those tend to be the types of games I like the most (although I play a wide variety of games). On the anime side of things I tend to favour action based stuff although I watch just about anything (although I tend to not like shojo (girly) stuff as much). All in all I'm pretty much your standard nerd.

As someone who does Computer Science I tend to spend a lot of my time around computers. I do a lot of programming, and when I'm not working on projects for uni I'm often slowly working on my own little programming projects. As such you'll probably get some programming based posts from time to time. I currently work for a group of people known as StudentIT for Melbourne Uni. We provide first level (although usually higher) IT support for students by manning helpdesks that sit in computer labs. We support students with their own laptops and we maintain the computers in the labs.

Anyway, I'll leave the introductions here for now. I hope you enjoy your stay with my blog and don't forget to comment!