I haven't blogged for five months so I think it's time to officially draw a line under this and say so long, and thanks for all the fish.

It was (much) better when the planet.nztech.org aggregator was around. It fell over briefly for a month or so then came back online but now appears to have disappeared permanently. Blogging, now, is just too much like hard work - especially with Serendipity being such an utter and consistent pain in the arse, but mostly the site never really got any long term subscribers and I lack the time and 'voom' to breathe life back into it. Just too much like one had clapping but without the Zen.

If you've just arrived! I've now got a real, proper 'day' job with Weta Digital who absolutely rule; and the MixTape music software through Atomic Droplet is still going strong - more than I thought it would to be honest. I'm currently working on organising a revamp of the website, making the MixTape user community (because there actually is one) be much more visible and interconnected and as part of this I'll be running blog posts from myself and others ... so it's not like I'm off blogging forever, and I have an actual reason to be sending traffic that way.

Oh, you can catch up on twitter too - even I am on that now - grumpy curmudgeon that I am.

My favourite moments from blogging!

• My first post was December 2006


• Motorcycle adventures including my first track day, first measured quarter mile, first crash and the Bikoi.


• Fixing the sunburst and again....culminating in WBBC trashing my boat, generally behaving like bastards and persuading me out of sailing forever.


• Apple blatantly ripping off my UI.


• My still strong feelings on beating children.


• Becoming the #1 hit on Google for a mobile phone sold by Telecom - starting the review with the words "It's crap" and inadvertently becoming the support network for the phone in New Zealand as a result


• Django hints and tips including 'creating a development https server' (3,500 pageviews) and iterating over a dictionary in django templates (26,000 pageviews and my most viewed blog post).


• Directions on mounting Linux disks from OSX still get me "thank you" emails.


• Correctly calling the end of the war for internet video - who would have thought Google would be attempting to restart it? BTW, I claim dibs on ARM based macs.


• Going to Burning Man and the resultant life changing "OMFG".


• Uniqlock which is still running OMG, what an incredible piece of work - see how the seconds and the beats of the music are sync'ed exactly?


• Saying good bye to "Advertising" Atomic Droplet, a very dark period of my life ... and saying hello to "Music" Atomic Droplet and much happier times leading to MixTape's first release in June 2010.


• The beat matching algorithm starting to come to life properly - little did I know I'd still be being tortured by the bloody thing ... months later


• Clare and a seriously over-optimistic view of what was actually wrong with me and subsequent recovery period.


• Hatsune Miko

And then nothing, for five months. So please, if you're here, check out some of what I did instead of spending time with my family (hehehe, sob sob sob) ... see Atomic Droplet still rocking along on the web, twitter or facebook ... or my personal account on twitter. But for now, that's it.

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