70cities blog

Well, a seven month hiatus - not bad going, really. 2008 has been the most hideously busy, stupidly packed year yet, and it's not over.

Things I've been up to:

• Designed and built a highly-parallelisable log processing engine, based on Map/Reduce principles
  
• Sweated blood in the process
  
• Been to York for a stag weekend, and ended up spending two nights in a dreadful 80's-themed nightclub
  
• Bought a new suit that doesn't make me look or feel like Tony Blair
  
• Went to Newcastle and wrote off our car
  
• Went to Scarborough for a wedding
  
• Bought a new car (shiny!)
  
• Spent a fantastic week in the North York Moors
  
• Stayed in a posh apartment complex in Leeds
  
• Struggled with being afflicted with recurring chronic sinusitus
  
• Drank a lot of tea/coffee
  
• Bought an iPhone
  
• Obtained new eyesight prescription and face furniture, which allows me to drive at night at last
  
• Waved sister-in-law and boyf off to live in San Francisco
  

So, not much really.