Another year gone by, and once again it has been a great one.
In January I started a new job, web developer on the Frameworks team at the BBC. Five years or so ago I came up with a list of three companies I would like to work for. Yahoo! was one of them. Tick. BBC was one of the others. Tick! I’m pleased to say that my expectations have been exceeded, I work with a great bunch of people and enjoy (almost) every day. Starting on Tuesday, my first day back after a Christmas break, I’m going to start work on a very exciting accessibility related project, making my job for the next month or so even more interesting.
In March I co-presented ‘Inclusive Design: Creating Beautiful, Usable & Accessible Websites’ at SXSW Interactive, and the following week had the best conference experience I’ve ever had at CSUN 2011. This year I will be attending again, and also speaking on the subject of Cyberethics and Accessibility.
In July, my first book was published. I’ve had enough time away from writing it to think that I’d like to have a go at the 4th edition, but this time write it from scratch instead of revising a previous edition.
After all that the second half of the year seemed quite quiet, but passed just a quickly.
This year there is one other big occasion I am looking forward to, the wedding of my sister at the end of April.
So, what else has been going on?
- I finally started to lose weight, still a long way to go, but I’m getting there. My sisters wedding is a big incentive to lose a lot more.
- Still no place of my own, but I’m a bit more hopeful of buying somewhere this year.
- I attended a few more gigs in 2011 than I did in 2010. Best of them were: Iron Maiden, Iron Maiden (saw them twice in just over a week), Within Temptation, and Terrorvision (the second time I saw them, although they were good the first time as well).
- On a related note, I’ve not picked up my bass for an entire year. I really need to buy a new one, but that has been the case for years.
- Now I’ve started to lose weight I’m hopeful that I can take up Judo again, without damaging my knees every time I play.
So, life is good, and I hope yours is too. Have a great year, everyone.