Commemorating 10 years of radiac.net with 10 for 10

• 7th August 2010 at 11:18

As the observant among you may have noticed, my diary has been silent for several months. Normally I manage to squeeze at least one inane entry out celebrating the inane happenings of someone who spends their life in a basement, but this period of silence has been because I've had too much to say rather than not enough. It has been a very busy, exciting and stressful time, and I have several entries written in draft form on my other computer, which I'll post up over the coming days and weeks. However, I can't get at the other computer at the moment, because it's unplugged and buried beneath several boxes, as a result of us moving house.

This news will not come as a shock to those of you who follow me on twitter, but Leela and I have bought a house after 18 months of searching, and we have spent every free waking minute since completion getting ready to move - painting rooms, tidying up after the electrician who put network cables into the walls, and I tiled the kitchen floor. We moved all our stuff over last weekend, spent this week cleaning the flat and finishing off the work here, and finally handed over our flat keys yesterday, just before taking delivery of our fridge and installing my vodka in it - the sign that we have finally completed our move (ignoring the piles of unopened booxes, of course). But more about all that later.

As the silence of the past few months will attest, the busy house-moving activities, combined with an ever-increasing workload, meant that I passed right over the 10 year anniversary of radiac.net. I launched this site on June 17th 2000, and although lately the frequency of my entries has dropped off significantly as real life has got in the way, it has been an important part of my life online and off over the years, and I still fully intend to restore this site to its former glory.

Which leads me to the somewhat foolhardy announcement of 10 for 10 on 10/10/10 at 10:10:10.

What is this, you ask? I'm not suffering from delusions of grandeur, but I feel 10 years of any site being active is worthy of celebration. Those of you who visit my site rather than reading the RSS feed may have noticed that this year I've had a countdown in my sidebar for 10:10:10 on 10/10/10. You may also have noticed that despite always saying how I'm working on things, I haven't actually publicly released anything since the last version of Fluffy the Forking Server in 2002. Add these up together, and there is only one possible thing for me to do: at 10:10:10 on 10/10/10, I will be releasing 10 projects to commemorate 10 years of radiac.net.

These projects will range from small libraries to larger server-side applications. Given recent house-moving delays, I may not have as many of the big ones ready in time as I had hoped when I had this idea at the start of the year, but I'll try to keep fillers to a minimum, there should be a few things in there which show what I've really been up to, and I hope that there will be something of interest to all of my friends and visitors.

Now, stand by for a few entries as I work through my drafts from the past year.

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