Wow! It's been a heck of a year for me. Particularly the last 8 months or so.

The year started with quite a bit of DIY on the house, including getting the cellar ready to become our new office/study/computer room, in order to allow us to use the second bedroom as a nursery. We got all the computers moved down there, and although half our stuff is still in boxes at the moment, I'm hoping that 2010 will provide me with some time to start building shelving and cupboards so that we can get things unpacked properly.

April saw the birth of our wonderful daughter, and since then it's been an incredible 8 months watching her grow from a small little thing, with only the ability to eat and sleep, to the noisy, crawling, laughing, bundle of fun that she's become in such a short time.

Since April life has really revolved around her, everything we do is all tailored around her needs, and while this can sometimes be annoying I don't think we'd want it any other way.

Some consequences/benefits of having a child that you don't necessary consider beforehand, the need for more hard disk space, in order to sort all the photos and video footage. Not to mention the requirement to get a video camera, and additional photography equipment! There is also a complete change in how much spare time you have, which is making it very hard to actually get much done these days, including updating this site.

In September I finally got around to moving all of my websites to a new server, and I'm now using Vidahost for my hosting, and so far they've been really great. So I can highly recommend them.

Finally I also got around to moving away from the Geeklog software that this site used to run on, and I'm now using Joomla instead, which so far, seems to have been a good move. 

So there we go, a very brief round up of my 2009, hopefully 2010 will see some more articles on this site, and maybe with more regularity. :)