It's already June and there's been a lot going on that I haven't been talking about here. The biggest news is that I'm now back at University, studying a postgraduate certificate in innovation management at the Melbourne Business School. What that all means is that I'm studying business at the top business school of Australia. The course has a focus on Innovation which should provide some great help for evaluating and commercialising my various software related ideas.
The course so far has been very interesting. The first subject, "World of Management" provided a nice overview of all the course. It also had a strong focus on the theory behind learning and skills required to make the most of the course. I must admit that the subject was geared towards students doing a full MBA. This meant that quite a bit of content was geared towards the skills needed to survive a three year part time masters course. Not an easy task! Overall I'm glad I did the subject. Last Saturday was the exam which was a bit of a shock to the system after 10+ years of not having to do an exam. It's nice to have the first one out of the way though.
My second subject I'm taking is "Organising for Innovation". As you can guess, this is all about how to structure business so that it can excel at creating and evaluating new and innovative concepts and then more importantly get them built. There's been some fantastic information in this course already and I'm only into the third week.
In other news I have finally taken the plunge and will be getting a car. This is the first car that I've ever owned after owning motorbikes most of my driving life. After looking around at many cars and deliberating way too much I ordered a new Honda CRV Sport. Of course it is black and comes with some fancy extras like sunroof, etc. To finish off the look of the car I also did something rather fun and silly. I purchased personalised number plates with...... ROXOR. It would have been better if they allowed r0x0r, but they don't allow lower case or the number zero. ROXOR will have to do! I pick up the car this friday which should be fun!
From all the above going on I have had little time to concentrate on other projects. Thankfully ps2dev.org has been moving along nicely the last few months. The forums have a good size community and the moderators have been doing a good job. It also look as though there will be a reasonable number of entries to the Fourth Creation Game competition.
I can't say the same for Argot and Colony. These projects need to mature a little more and find a niche. Without that communication happenning to drive development things are going to continue to move slowly.