Late New Years' resolutions

A couple of weeks ago, I was browsing Hacker News when I happened upon Matthew Might's 12 resolutions for programmers. Eschewing the obvious "1920x1080" jokes, I read on, and realised that he actually had some very good points.

Linguistic rant time

English has been vexing me recently.

To tide you over...

I haven't written much recently, as I've been rather busy with other things, but here's a piece of writing (which arose in conversation with the delightful Zoe Holder) of which I was rather proud, and felt warranted sharing.

Interlude

I knew what I was going to write tonight.

This is the life...

Yesterday, I was paid to go skiing and attend the Amazon Seattle Annual Party.

It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it...

I'm still in Seattle...

...and it continues to be awesome!

Seattle

I'm in Seattle.

Even now I can't quite believe it.