Posted by
syl, 3 months ago:
Does anyone else feel exhausted and ratty? What a year it has been! What a decade!
Posted by
Gary, 3 months ago:
2009 has been pretty crappy for me. I hope 2010 is a LOT better.
Posted by
syl, 3 months ago:
Why has it been crappy Gary?
I second Gary's comment. Been a dogshit year in AP towers, too.
Posted by
syl, 3 months ago:
Why AP?
I had a very eventful year, some shitty bits but mostly lovely. Moved into our new house which is beautiful and was visited by the most wonderful man ever. Had a fantastic holiday with him on Safari, to Cape Town, and went swimming with Dolphins in Mozambique. He loved it! And so did I.
Dad died. Big C. Spent his 50th wedding anniversary in hospital.
Similar year to me. Grandmother died in June. Undertakers said "Only free day we've got in the next few weeks is 30th June."
Spent my birthday burying my grandmother. Nice.
And Christmas Day will be the 9 month anniversary of the longest period of unemployment following redundancy in my 20 year career.
2009 sucked. Can't be over soon enough.
Posted by
syl, 3 months ago:
AP, eatmypiano, I am so sorry to hear that. I understand exactly how you feel, I lost my Dad in 2003 also from cancer. Lots of love to you and your families, I wish you strength and comfort. *warm hug*
EMP, you will find something in the new year. What work do you do?
Posted by
Miki, 3 months ago:
I'm very sorry for all the loss and other badness :(
for us 2009 was a lot better then the last two, after more then 2,5 years of sadness and medical hupla we are finally pregnant and it's all still going well.
It's all been ups and downs though because in the past two years we also had some great times and this year there has also been some real sadness and worry for good friends.
But being 6 months preggers now I have to give this year two thumbs up.
And yes syl I still feel exhausted and ratty :D
Stuff the end of year - it's the end of a
decade.
So how have the last ten years been?
EMP, you will find something in the new year. What work do you do?
I do website magic like Cal except
a) not as well
b) not as nice to look at
For me it's function over form. If you want a website that looks shit but works really well, then I'm your man. If you want a website that looks good as well, then employ me and a graphic designer.
the last year was actually an amazing turnaround for me. (AP: sorry and hardly-helpful condolences for your own suckage year -- Gary: lower-voltage-in-context but similar sympathies)
doing something that utterly does my head in, but finally starting to dig myself out of the awesome financial and career hole my ex-business partners hurled me into when they decided to take my money and run. enough to live on for a year now, by january (barring further fraud) enough to live on for two.
re this last decade, i've had 2 business ventures worth
at least £200m to myself (and a LOT more to my partners) get utterly skittled by shortsighted selfish stupidities of others [
1-Holographic 3D monitors (note particularly the point re ALL opengl/direct3d apps working holographically immediately without porting),
2-Outcome 2-DeathOfAStartup (read down at least to "Now here's a deeply funky thing, in the sense of something with profound consequences for Society ... Bam, just like that, you've got a new "money". ") ], without even any resulting benefit to themselves. not just total destruction of financial value, but trashing serious changes in the way people use computers and money, respectively.
the latter is now exploding over Africa (quite weird meeting people making a fortune out of it, and evangelising the technology at you), for the reasons in the post (despite being implemented in a very suboptimal form). and is edging towards non-vendor-specific in Japan.
the former is still possible to resurrect with full value (at least £1bn w/in 2yrs), btw, if anyone has $10m to invest.
(despite all my silicon valley and VC experience, i've only come across 2 other people capable of bringing it to market in a market-dominating microsoft or (olddays) oracle sense (and any other approach leaves it essentially devoid of value, crushed by Sharp) -- the overwhelming bulk of people in the startup tech space are there by luck not skill--, and they've both retired due to the stresses of excessive wealth, so i have no real remaining concern "publicising" the potential.)
side note:
cal: looking at the 2nd venture's posts in the cold hard light of day, from a coder's perspective the clause "this was architecturally a single OO object ("Subscriber") with a single method ("Unsecure Request for Secure Payment") , with heavy polymorphism preceding the core functionality." would better have been phrased as ", apart from the various large-effort-but-minor-intellect manifold integration works, the only real new-devel real-devel work for this would be the creation of etc."
i used to be a coder. i only really counted stress in the greenfield.
Posted by
syl, 3 months ago:
Good to hear you're "back in the saddle" Sal :D
Merry Christmas, and all that.