2010 in review
2010! All in all, I think it was a good year. Personally, I mean. I have some issues with it geopolitically, but I don’t think we need to go into that. And, for a change, it went by without any significant job turmoil. That’s something!
- Back in January, I got myself dragged into the long-running Northdale neighbourhood debate in the city of Waterloo. Not something I enjoyed greatly, but I felt I had to dip my oar in. I even presented to city council about it.
- I was interviewed by the (now sadly podfaded) The 100 Podcast about transportation issues and the LRT. That’s kind of cool.
- I made a failed attempt at live coding for Kwartzlab’s latest 5+5 event. Fun, though. And I’m glad I did it.
- Kwartzlab continues to be a great thing in our community, that I’m happy to be a part of.
- I ran an Ubuntu Global Jam, two release parties and helped host a LAN party with Eric. I started holding Ubuntu Hours in Kitchener-Waterloo and IRC meetings for Ubuntu Canada online. In the end, txwikinger and I became the new “contacts” for the Ubuntu Canada Local Community organization.
- I joined the office dodgeball team, leading to a number of minor injuries.
- I went to Bill and Tara’s wedding. Eric and Alex get married tonight.
- I co-presented on unit testing with Alexei at the local agile software development group. More live coding!
- Speaking of the Agile P2P, a number of us got together to start a technical book club, starting with Uncle Bob‘s Clean Code. A number of agile development luminaries, including Uncle Bob, have joined our conversations.
- My blogging output flagged a bit, with everything else going on. I took out some of my local politics frustrations on the Waterloo-Wellington Bloggers Association, but that site is now defunct, merging with Wonderful Waterloo. That site has asked me to contribute as a blogger, but I haven’t pulled together a post yet.
- The new season of Doctor Who was awesome! I thought so, anyway. Also, I now have a ridiculous amount of Doctor Who toys.
- Ellen is still awesome.
- I became an uncle. My sister Erin’s son Grady was born in October.
Cross-posted from the flying squirrel