So Naw-Ruz is here and although it was a couple of days ago, I haven’t had the time to post anything. This year was my last Naw-Ruz celebrating it in Haifa and it was very special. I am going to miss it very much. I have about four months left before I will be bidding farewell from Haifa this time, so apart from work and trying to review material for a MCP exam, building a mini e-bay and a couple of other small projects, I have to start thinking about packing my stuff. With absolute most certainty, coming to serve as a volunteer at the Bahá’í World Centre has been my best decision in life and leaving it at this time was the most uncertain and difficult decision to make, but I feel the timing is right and hopefully I will have a chance to come back later in life, but for now this chapter is about to end and I look forward to the next one.

Oh, leaving here, means also I need to start dusting off my resume and a thought occurred to me, when I do apply for a job, it is very likely for the company in question to ‘google’ me up and they will find this blog. Am I comfortable with them reading this? I certainly don’t have anything I wouldn’t want them to read about, but at the same time the thought feels a bit awkward, probably because, here I do express personal opinions, that has nothing to do with how I perform or am as a professional. Now, for my future boss to read about it is fine, but it feels like they would know a lot more about me than I would know about them, ie on a personal level. It’s really not an issue, but it surprised me a little to find out that I wasn’t completely keen on the idea of just about anyone (= future employer) to read my blog. Funny huh?

Reading my feeds, I found out today that MSN now supports having 300 people on your contact list (used to be 150)…good news for me, though I already have two account to support more than 150. Apart from that, I came across Zoom info which contains info about people, I am not there but many of my friends are. Haven’t really bothered to try and figure out what info they catalog, but an interesting idea.

Another thought I am having these days is given I want GSM as a cell phone, what is the best option to have a combo device that has an organizer, is a phone, can read feeds on (GPRS), maybe plays mp3 and has a decent camera so I can take pictures when Kodak moments arise and all this with good battery, blue tooth, nice size display and fairly light. If you have any candidates, please do let me know!

And finally, here is the current most overused buzz words according to 150 senior execs.