There's not been much here lately. Time to change that.
There was a time, in the distant past, where I blogged at least once a month - the archives sidebar is a testament to that. However, for a nasty combination of reasons - mainly "having a life" - it hasn't seemed to happen in the last year or so.
Well, I've decided it's time to change all that. Two days ago I opened up the codebase of this site for the first time in years, changed the repository away from Subversion, upgraded it to use Django 1.3 (rather than 0.97-pre, which will give you some idea of its age), and actually put my recent projects onto the projects page.
I suspect one of the more interesting inspirations may have been my recent acquiring of a hobby that isn't programming, which means my dark days of trying to improve make my speaker bio sound less nerdy are over. Said hobby is, unsurprisingly for me, flying (of small planes, rather than self-propelled levitation) - something I've been interested in for a while, but never really got around to doing.
Naturally, I'm already pricing up that nice new twin-engined plane I've apparently always wanted, though at this point I'm only five hours into training, and have accomplished the rather spectacular feat of keeping the plane straight and level, as well as leaning how one narrowly avoids hitting the turbulence caused by a fighter jet streaking over the Thames estuary - an important skill for later in life, I'm sure.
Needless to say, expect a lot of boring flying-related posts on here (well, unless something exciting happens, but most exciting things in aviation are also dangerous, so getting them written down is harder). I'll also make sure there's a good set of programming-related posts, to make sure every one of my readers has something to be bored about - I'm a big fan of equality.
For now, though, it's back to being slightly lost in Kiev (or Kyiv, or Київ), and pronouncing Cyrillic letters one at a time to try and pronounce things - always a joy, especially to the locals, who are delightfully amused whenever I try to speak to them. Adiós, or, rather, до свидания, for now.