Hello World blog - Pabo

Hello everybody,

I signed up few days ago and just wanted to say hi. Let me introduce myself.
My name is Elias and I live in Athens, Greece. I'm studying IT at the University of Piraeus - I guess none of you will have heard of it, but I've actually grown to like it. I'm interested in video games - obviously, since I'm writing these words on this blog. My favourite games are hard to name, it's changing constantly. But in general I do like RPGs and strategy games.

Since last year I spent more and more time reading about games, and one day it struck me that I actually read more about games than play them. I don't know if that's good or bad news, but it sure indicates my interest in games from a perspective beyond the player's one. Though there are some plans in my head, I can't possibly realise them without further training, and I hope that training is what I'll do this year. I currently have only some basic Java skills, and trying to work out my first game - a board game for school, inspired by Menschärgeredichnicht. I know, it's not much, but I hope this first project will teach me the basic skills of game making. If such a simple project is already interesting to me, I can't wait to engage in something bigger.
Whatever it may be, I'd like to make it open source - I'm pretty fascinated by the open source philosophy, and since I use so many FOS programmes, I'd like to give something back. I only hope my code will be good enough.
That's it for now. I don't know if I'll continue writing entries (it's my first blog, yeah!), or if I'll ever come up with a game. But I guess I shouldn't bother, since this blog will be primarily read by me. So why write all of this? I suppose it's more about me being able to write down some thoughts, than for any lost soul who's accidentally clicked the wrong blog link and landed on this page. That being said, every "lost soul" is welcome to comment and share their ideas. I'd be honoured to.