<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='http://robzyc.spaces.live.com/mmm2008-07-24_12.50/rsspretty.aspx?rssquery=en-US;http%3a%2f%2frobzyc.spaces.live.com%2fcategory%2fPersonal%2ffeed.rss' version='1.0'?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:msn="http://schemas.microsoft.com/msn/spaces/2005/rss" xmlns:live="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The Ramblings of Rob Cooper: Personal</title><description /><link>http://robzyc.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&amp;_c=BlogPart&amp;partqs=catPersonal</link><language>en-US</language><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:29:29 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:29:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Microsoft Spaces v1.1</generator><docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs><ttl>60</ttl><cf:parentRSS>http://robzyc.spaces.live.com/blog/feed.rss</cf:parentRSS><live:type>blogcategory</live:type><live:identity><live:id>5173604217493655657</live:id><live:alias>robzyc</live:alias></live:identity><cf:listinfo><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="typelabel" label="Type" /><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="tag" label="Tag" /><cf:group element="category" label="Category" /><cf:sort element="pubDate" label="Date" data-type="date" default="true" /><cf:sort element="title" label="Title" data-type="string" /><cf:sort ns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" element="comments" label="Comments" data-type="number" /></cf:listinfo><item><title>2008 Off to a Great Start!</title><link>http://robzyc.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!47CC559FF82C1069!353.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Well, looks like I lied in my &lt;a href="http://robzyc.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!47CC559FF82C1069!342.entry" target="_blank"&gt;last post&lt;/a&gt;, I haven't been incredibly active on this blog since then, and I said I would - apologies for that. &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So What Have I Been Doing?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;Well, I have been studying hard as I am sick of having this first MCP (&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-316.mspx" target="_blank"&gt;70-316&lt;/a&gt;) hanging over my head, I can write C# code, and know pretty much everything I need to know, but there are a couple of areas that are stopping me passing the exam, so I just need to keep working on it until it gets into my thick skull! &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AWESOME NEWS!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;Also, great news is, I have a new job! I have finally managed to get myself a position where I will be working with: &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework#.NET_Framework_2.0" target="_blank"&gt;.NET 2.0&lt;/a&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.asp.net/" target="_blank"&gt;ASP.NET&lt;/a&gt; &lt;li&gt;A Team of Software Engineers (Who seem to really know their stuff!)&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;I am itching to get going, but currently working out my notice period with my current employer (which is kinda frustrating!). &lt;p&gt;I really feel this new job will accelerate my learning as well as my career as I will actually be working with the tools and technologies used in the business world and not crappy &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications" target="_blank"&gt;VBA&lt;/a&gt;! So looking forward to getting started and keeping you guys posted as to my thoughts and what-have-you! &lt;div style="padding-right:0px;display:inline;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-top:0px"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/.NET" rel=tag&gt;.NET&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/2.0" rel=tag&gt;2.0&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/asp.net" rel=tag&gt;asp.net&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/software" rel=tag&gt;software&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/new year" rel=tag&gt;new year&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=5173604217493655657&amp;page=RSS%3a+2008+Off+to+a+Great+Start!&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=robzyc.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=robzyc"&gt;</description><comments>http://robzyc.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!47CC559FF82C1069!353.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://robzyc.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!47CC559FF82C1069!353.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:19:18 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://robzyc.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!47CC559FF82C1069!353/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://robzyc.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!47CC559FF82C1069!353.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2008-01-24T10:20:33Z</dcterms:modified></item></channel></rss>