Well, thought I better make a quick post to summarise 2007.
It’s been a busy year for me, lots of changes, many new things.
Work has been weird - in July I was moved from a local project to one 170 miles away from home, which is actually going okay, very busy but fun. I am setting up a couple of compounds for a motorway widening job, one office is 50 staff the other is about 160, pretty much the total network setup has been my decision, scary but great fun and super for my career. I am renting a house up there now and so live in two locations.
Home has also been fun, Ella my niece is a toddler not a baby now, she giggles all the time and really is a barrel of fun. The house is going well, looks good and is great to come back to on the weekends. Tom is being great, we are getting on really well and hopefully will be able to devote some time to planning this civil partnership one day (damn being too busy).
One of the things that really cheered me up at the end of 2007 was being deemed suitable to be made staff for freenode ( irc.freenode.net ) this is a project I really believe in. I am very happy that the other staff have felt me worthy to join their ranks and help make my contribution to the open source community a worthwhile one.
As you may know, my work is all based around MS technology and apart from my success in getting a open source VOIP phone system they are very very hesitant to ever look into the FOSS side of things. I however strongly believe in FOSS and the ideals and principals behind the open development of applications and code.
