In my last post I had mentioned that I wanted to update this website’s theme, and admittedly that task had been put on the back-burner for quite a while. I had previously looked at different themes for Jekyll and come across Hydejack and had really liked it. Unfortunately, at the time, migrating to it would have taken a long time and I really didn’t have a lot of time to expend on it.
Yes, I’m still around, though I’m less active here than I used to be. As I get older, I realize how the time I have in a day needs to be divided and I have to prioritize. I have desired to come back to the world of blogging, and have recently been researching ways to update this site. Some things that I have been planning:
I took a couple pictures of Pheobe, my red Tesla Model 3 yesterday evening and one of them came out really nice. No color adjustments or editing outside of some small cropping.
If you’ve looked at my blog, you’ve probably noticed that I haven’t posted in quite a while. In fact, the last post here was just an apology note that I hadn’t posted at all in 2017 and that I did intend to - but obviously didn’t. To say that 2017 was a tough year would be an understatement, as from what I’ve seen and heard, it’s been difficult for many in an assortment of ways. In retrospect and by comparison, I’d have to say that I had a successful - albeit extremely busy - year. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for other people though. Like most Americans, I think this past year was wrought with nervousness and constant anxiety for what the next day/week/month might bring. In fact, as I sit here writing this retrospective, it’s hard for me to even remember what happened.
Just a quick update - yes, I’m still alive. I’ve been super busy with work and everything that I haven’t really been able to dedicate any time to writing here. I do have some ideas on things to post, so hopefully I can find a little bit more time to write it all out.
This year has been particularly busy for me, but I wanted to make sure to write at least something for my annual end-of-the-year post.
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Considering switching to a Mac because of the consistency of platform with the environments I frequently interact with (*nix systems), and MacBooks are some of the best performing laptops I’ve ever seen, able to handle my current needs. Though I still feel dirty even considering the platform switch.
Its the last night of 2015, I have a drink of the alcoholic type origin and its time for me to write my annual post reminiscing about this past year. And quite the year it has been. I’ve said in past years that odd-numbered years have had quite significant changes for me. Last year was an exception, with a change in employer, but that only barely squeaked in toward the end of the year. This year set the pattern back on track, though.
Since I purchased my first Android device, the much-loved Nexus One, I have had a desire to build and distribute my first app for the Android platform. Unfortunately, with each attempt on starting an app, I ran four of the most difficult roadblocks for a hobbyist developer: getting an idea for an app, finding the time to work on an app once an idea was found, not getting into paralyzing infinite loop of restarting the project each time the platform changed, and feature creep.
Over six years ago I wrote a post on my old Blogger blog about what I believed the exact middle of the year was. When I had written it, I remember feeling that the computations that I did were faulty since there was just something odd about the numbers I was getting.
