JamesOzAmbitions of A Willing Teenager

When Google was founded in 1998 I doubt they ever thought that they’d become the largest search engine in the world or create such things as Adsense, chrome or become a billion dollar company.  Our lives are surrounded by technology and when you’re looking for something and ironically google it, they always seem to have a solution. Looking for email? use gmail Looking for videos? use youtube. Looking at developing sites? Use adsense. Looking at stalking finding someones house? Use googlemaps. They’re all great products and props to google for it but how far is this going to go?

Google Adsense for Domains has been around for a long time and if you had your names parked with google, you obviously had a excellent portfolio. People who couldn’t get into Adsense for domains or didn’t know about it went with parking companies and were feeding them with huge commissions and everything was happy as larry. Then google went along and introduced Adsense for domains to nearly any US member. They could now have access to googles system without a ‘middle man’ that had their own system using googles feeds. When cutting out a middle man, you’re cutting out the percentage the parking company was taking and earning even more, whats stopping you from moving your names to adsense for domains. Parking may be nearly dead and development will always be the key but I’d gladly park with google and cut out a parking company all together.

The question I ask myself from this though, which is my main reason for this post is Where will google stop? Domains are a HUGE game and when the market is healthy, you can see many $xxx,xxx sales a week. Ponder this thought, what’s stopping google from running a domain platform to escrow domains? They’ve easily got the market to help escrow names, the sales you can see week to week are enough of a reason in my eyes to get into such a business, whats another support department going to hurt? I will most likely never happen but with some of the directions they’ve taken (android) it’s possible.

You all read this title and you all think I’m about to complain about a girl right? Do you know me to well or is my blog that sad, that it’s always me sooking about a girl? Well this time it’s not me complaining about a girl.

$26,500 Australian dollars is a lot of money to anybody, I know I could do tons of things with that amount of money and buy things I only dream of… Imagine all the poptarts… I’m getting older and I’m wanting to look for a career choice because lets face it, if I don’t, i’ll end up a failure and just end up with a dead end job or becoming a lonely old man that wishes he stuck with his education.

I’m looking into a Associate Degree of Audio Engineering and Sound Production that spans for roughly 2 years and is pretty intense course at a private type college place in Melbourne… I’d love to do this so I could further myself in music and even be able to produce my own stuff or be able to go on tour with bands and record live.I can remember 12 months ago I’d talk to Amber for hours about my dreams and blabber on about it all… crazy how things change.. Music is a passion for me and it’s a dream I’ve had for a long time and in a way it’s all coming together a lot more in my head and I know I can make it work, I’m willing to work hard at school to achieve the entrance school (65 enter) and be able to do something like this, even if it’s not this exact course. Only one thing scares me though…

• The audition requires all applicants to prepare a programme consisting of two contrasting pieces of music. The two pieces should not exceed ten minutes.
• For most instruments Grade V (5) is the expected level.

I’ve got like 2 years to get a lot better at playing music with an audience… I don’t mind a good shred at home but I hate people watching me so this could be a huge obstacle for me to overcome. Only time will tell but I hope I can find something close to this or even get in… going to have to start saving now.. Damn

Shit, I’m so sick of people selling out people for something better, we all need a passion to care about people in this world and people need to stop just thinking about themselves. I’m sick of being sold out by friends who just want to get in a better position in life or they just use you to get something/someone. I’m a pretty decent person and I usually just let people walk all over me because I can’t be bothered with people who’ve got this sort of mindset. I just hope the world can see how cruel and ugly it can be and that someone can create the good because we’re the one’s who make the world a different place and I don’t want some asshole ruining my experience and making it horrible.

On a lighter, happier note. Not long till I start school, so I’m going to get some shut eye and going to relax for awhile.

Here’s my one year blogging and my 64th entry, it’s not much but it’s who I really am, I never blogged for the money or to try sell a product, I blogged how I felt and tried to keep this blog as active as I could. Even with other commitments I was still able to bring you an average of 1.2 blogs a week for the year, It’s not much but it does give you a huge insight to who I am and the emotional imbalance I can experience when things aren’t going my way. I’ve matured a lot in the past year and have learnt a lot from just being able to blog and express my opinion freely and even being able to look over what I’ve written again and seen what I was thinking about at certain stages in my life and to see that I’m stronger then I think and actually have enough knowledge to handle situations that I’ve gotten into.

I’ve set myself a huge goal that may last forever, I wasn’t forced into a decision and actually have chosen to do this myself. I’ve decided to go Straight edge.

‘Straight Edge refers to a lifestyle that started within the hardcore punk subculture whose make a commitment to refrain from drinking alcohol, using tobacco products, and using recreational drugs.’

Let’s just be straight honest, drugs fuck up peoples lives and some people can luckily save themselves before they end up dead or locked in a padded cell going through withdrawals.  I want to be in control of my body and be able to be proud that I’m not relying on alcohol or drugs to have fun or get by in life. It’s a sad thing for people to experience but they sadly get themselves into it and before they know it, they’re a wreck and sometimes end up fucked for life. I don’t plan to throw my ’status’ about and I’m not going to go to concerts with X’s on my hand, you look fucking stupid. I’m just going to keep enjoying life and being straight edge.

Before I get into a huge blog entry, I just want to say Happy New Year and I hope all your goals come true.

I had afew brief ideas for blogs I wanted to write but didn’t really get around to writing them or able to create enough mental content to feel confident enough to write about something that come to mind. I always seem to be running out of time lately, I always seem to burn out or let time fly by and I have to get to other things like sleep so I can try balance a social life (Yeah.. right) I’m lucky enough to have a huge topic I can write about, which all readers can reflect on. My blog is a year old on 10.01.09 and I want to take some personal time to reflect the events of my year and things that I’ve experienced and went through.

I can’t really say I’ve had the best year and I can’t say I took advantage of everything I could have but we all fuck up things in life and mine is hard to explain.. In one way I took things to seriously but in another way, I took life to easy and just let shit ride by. I’ve taken relationships far to seriously and now I’ve begun to see a light but I don’t know if anything will change in the near future that’s to do with relationships because as much as I’m stable, I don’t want to end up dependant of someone or being commited. I think we all know what love is in our own little way but isn’t loving someone actually just becoming dependant of them? I don’t need that shit in my life and I certainly don’t want to be dependant of someone who could end up being completely different to me.. You’d be suprised how many people you could date and once you break up.. how different they become and just.. how much you regret what you had because you realise they’re actually just an asshole or you got the completely wrong take of them. Screw blogging about love anyway, I’ve suffered enough from it in 2008 with fucked up relationships that I’ve got nothing out of. I should be putting all my energy into schooling, I’ve got no clue what I’m going to end up as but I know that I’ll have a clear idea once I’ve got to year 12 and sat my exams. I don’t have to make decisions straight away because afterall, this is for the rest of my life and happiness. I want to follow my dreams but I want to be proud of what I’ve achieved, even if it’s only a Year12 pass. I just hope this year will be different and I’ll actually do well in school.

I’m actually proud to call this my blog, I look back on newer entries and I see that I’m improving with writing and now I actually feel like a ‘pure soul’ I’ve improved myself by just living life for me. I think music has been a huge influence for me and even writing my own powerful words into lyrics, I can power words into anything I want and even give myself a life lesson by putting words into something I can take from them. I doubt music is this powerful for many people because they listen to it for the hip beat or the catchy hook but it’s helped me a lot and I plan to help others with my own music and own musical ideas which I legally cannot reveal on this blog…

I know this year will have it’s ups and downs but I know that I’m going to handle it to the best of my ability and I’m going to stay true to myself because I only need to look out for myself and care for others, I’m going to make myself proud and even though I won’t achieve everything I want this year. I can only push myself to the limit and know that I’ve done my best and not get myself down over such peddy shit like ‘I could have done better’.

Just before I go, you should follow me on Twitter if you aren’t already and I’d also like to thank Shane from Success Circuit for featuring me in his eBook “Cited Success: Learn from the masters’ and praising me as a ‘master’ I don’t see myself as one but I’m honored to be praised by such a bright young man who’s got a great future ahead of him. Thanks a lot Shane and you should check out his site.