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Hello everyone, I hope you’re all well. I thought it was high time I finally got back into the swing of writing. It’s New Year’s Day 2012 as I write...

My awesome 8-bit OggCamp shirt, designed by @fabsh

Hello everyone, I hope you’re all well. I thought it was high time I finally got back into the swing of writing. It’s New Year’s Day 2012 as I write this to you and I hope you enjoyed a great festive period. Whatever your denomination, or even if you don’t have one. It’s a perfect time to reflect on the previous year and that’s what I’ll focus on today. 2011 was a good year for me and I’d like to quickly recount some highlights.

Living In The City

I’d been planning to move to the centre of Liverpool for years but it was the start of 2011 when I finally found an available and affordable flat. I signed all the paperwork and got hold of the keys at the end of January, before promptly heading off to Brussels for FOSDEM. I didn’t even have time to move much stuff in before leaving. One of the first things I did upon moving to the flat though was get my stereo connected and listen to “Living For The City” by Stevie Wonder at a good volume. It seemed appropriate. It’s not long till my 1 year anniversary of being a city slicker now. I still love it here and fate (and landlord) willing, I’ll be here a while yet. Continue reading →

Wow… well this is embarrassing isn’t it? You skip writing one post and all of a sudden it’s 2 months later. I’ve been fairly busy since the end of October, that goes...

Wow… well this is embarrassing isn’t it? You skip writing one post and all of a sudden it’s 2 months later. I’ve been fairly busy since the end of October, that goes without saying. But I’ll endeavour to write up a proper review of my year over the next week. This is just a quick post to let you all know that I’m still very much alive and to thank the kind people who told me they miss the Weekly Rewind. Yeah there were a few, honest. I’ll get back into regular blogging swing in the New Year.

I do have a small treat for you though. One of things I’ve been doing lately is video editing and animation. So here’s a quick stop motion clip I did a few weeks ago. This was only a test to see if the method worked to be honest but it came out looking ok.  I can’t really draw but that’s supposed to be an L appearing and fading away. I’m going to use a technique like this to make titles for some videos I’m doing. I also used my dartboard as it was the only thing I could use chalk on in my flat. I know, I’m just so manly, ha ha. The lighting isn’t great so you might need to squint a bit.

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year and as always thanks for your support throughout 2011. Take care of yourselves and I’ll race you to 2012

Dan

Wow, we’re finally here. The 100th Weekly Rewind. It’s been a long road and by my calculations longer than it should have been. If I’d managed an update every single...

Wow, we’re finally here. The 100th Weekly Rewind. It’s been a long road and by my calculations longer than it should have been. If I’d managed an update every single week since starting this series in early 2009 we’d have hit triple figures some months back. But you know what? I firmly believe quality is more important than quantity in all parts of life. Often I’ve just been too busy and it reminds me of one of my favourite quotes. I believe it was John Lennon who said “Life is what happens while you’re making other plans”, or words to that effect. Anyway, the last couple of weeks have been interesting and eventful, so let’s talk about them. Continue reading →

We’re almost there, almost at number 100 but not quite. This is Weekly Rewind 99, which I think should be alternatively titled “Would you like a flake with that?”. I...

We’re almost there, almost at number 100 but not quite. This is Weekly Rewind 99, which I think should be alternatively titled “Would you like a flake with that?”. I don’t know how well that joke translates Internationally but here in Britain a 99 Flake is a type of ice cream you often get on trips to the seaside. It usually comes served with a chocolate flake and costs 99p, hence the name. To be honest, with the state of the economy and inflation right now I wouldn’t be surprised if they no longer cost 99p. It’s been a while since I bought one. Perhaps it’s a 1.99 now or something. Anyway, enough ice cream discussion. Let’s talk about recent events…

Update: After some searching it seems the name of the 99 is not due to the price and the real reason is unconfirmed.

I’ll begin with last Tuesday (October 4th), when I released another episode of Rathole Radio. Number 62 to be precise and you can grab it from the website now. Speaking of the website, we will soon be upgrading to a newer and much better version. I have to thank Anna for all her help and encouragement with this. Tuesday was a busy podcasting day actually as there was another live Linux Outlaws in the evening. We’d moved the show to Tuesday and it was great fun as always. Fab released that later in the week as episode 232 “This is Not Going Anywhere”. There’s more Linux Outlaws talk to come but I’ll keep things in chronological order.

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