George Wright's Blog

Alive and kicking

Posted by George Wright Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:10:00 GMT

It’s been a while since I last wrote anything. The main reason for this is that my server decided to throw a hissy fit back in November or so. We took the opportunity to replace the disk drives at the same time, and now one of the new disks is playing up. But after failing the disk in the RAID it all seems to be working fine, and I’ve finally had time to migrate my data over…

The past few months has been great; I’ve been playing FAR too much Wii (especially the New Super Mario Bros game, that’s addictive); doing lots of work at RIM; moving office so I’m no longer a 10 minute walk from work (but rather a 10 minute subway journey, bah) amongst countless other things including my health finally getting back on track after 5 months of coughing/being ill/etc. Hurrah!

So 2010. I saw 2009 off in style by flying down to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins in Washington DC. I even met up with Roey Katz (a KDE groupie) whilst I was there! Hoping to fly to the US a lot more now that I live next door - next stop, New York City!

But what does the next year hold in store for me? Well, I’ll be working on honing my shooting skills (I’m trying to get onto a national team at the moment, so we’ll see how that goes). Work will, as ever, play an important role and we’re doing some very cool stuff at the moment involving open source and other gubbins. I will (hopefully) be flying around the world a lot and trying to live life a bit fuller - on the itinerary for this year are (in no particular order): Bologna, London, Vancouver, Fort Collins, New York, Washington DC, Ottawa and perhaps San Francisco. Whew! Going to be a busy year!

Unfortunately, it looks like I won’t have enough time, therefore, to be able to attend KDE conferences anymore, or at least not for the full time - I may be able to whistle by for a weekend. I’m simply using up all my spare time either shooting or randomly globetrotting! I will, however, try to keep in touch with as many KDEers through the intertubes (Troy - I’m looking at you), and continue to host random KDE gatherings in my apartment (anyone is welcome, really! except maybe Troy). I’ve now hosted… three random gatherings I think. Go KDE Toronto!

So in that vein, 4.4 release party anyone? I think Troy wants to host one in the fake London, but I think the KDE Toronto massive are pushing for one closer to the second centre of the universe (the first being the Real London, or wherever I am). On a side note, I’m far too old and set in my ways to start using this newfangled “KDE SC” terminology, so I will continue to use the old style here, not least because it makes it more interesting for you to guess which of the 80 possible meanings of “KDE” I’m referring to.

So for me at least, 2010 is looking like a hopeful year, and I hope it is for a lot of you as well! Have a good one!