In my free time I'm studying some Java basics like Collections. This is to prepare for the upcoming basic training sessions I'm thinking about, a foundation for future fields of study, and maybe for SCJP Certification.

I don't feel like taking up J2EE anymore. I really feel no affinity towards it. Now, why did I think I would ever be interested in business software? I never was. I'll still be looking at the underlying network and related parts, though.

Microsoft takes its anti-open source campaign to the Philippines and the local community is not taking it sitting down. I'm not too interested in advocacy myself - I'd rather write the code and build the knowledge infrastructure for open source. The C# books at the Book Fair were tempting me though...