Photo ID

I finally went down to the AustPost office at the Northland Shopping Center and applied for a "Proof of Age" Card today. Cost me $10 and the lady at the counter said that it takes about a month for it to come through the mail. Great!

Since, I've had a lot of free time for a while, I've been involved in a lot of personal projects.

• I have completed a Linux certification. Took me more than a month to prepare for it. I should get the Certificate in the mail in 3 weeks time. Hopefully, this should secure me a real IT job. But somehow I doubt this will be enough.
• Started the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification (self-prep). From the feel of thing so far, it feels this will require just the same amount of energy and commitment as the Linux one did.
• I've done a lot of reading lately. I've read or perused a long list of books in the past week. Such books like "1984", "Moby Dick", "The Phantom Tollbooth", Dante's "Inferno", and "Midnight's Children". And I gotta tell ya, Moby Dick and Dante's Inferno are one long stories!

Website Update

Submitted a request to my web hoster for SSH access. They wanted a photo ID so I gave them my old expired Alabama Learner's permit. Hope that works. Its been more than 2 days since I gave them my photo ID. Wonder whats taking them so long. Come to think of it, I could've just scanned my passport and that would've worked as well. Why the hell didn't I do that in the first place?!!

Speaking of photo IDs, I just realized that I don't have a proper Australian Photo ID other than my Indian Passport. And I don't wanna risk carrying my passport around with me all the time. I was going to apply for a Victorian Learners Permit as a means of Identification, but then I found out theres a whole lot of procedures involved for a person with a disability to acquire one. Such as a rehab assessment by a rehab specialist. So, that plan got shot to hell. The next best thing left is to apply for a 'proof of age' card which can be used as an official form of ID. At least that's what I've been told. So, that's what I'm gonna do then.

I unregistered the http://www.obdeus.com/ domain name because it sounds dumb and it didn't exactly mean "in front of god" in Latin. So, now its just http://www.mujahidjaleel.com/.