Last year I wrote up a quick blog post to ring in the New Year, highlighting some of my accomplishments and failures of 2008. In that spirit, keeping the tradition alive, here's my 2009 in a nutshell:I kicked off 2009 figuring out how to block Trackback Spam, and wrote up an opinionated piece re: why I dislike and therefore don't use, Facebook. MyCougarLand.com failed to update their DNS records, which generated a lot of traffic (not the kind you would expect) to my blog. In late January, I discovered that I own a bottle of wine from a convicted felon. Ala February, I joined Twitter, and heard that Network Solutions featured my WHOIS Firefox Plugin on their homepage. I bought a new battery backup UPS for my home data center, after a little physics exercise to discover the exact type of UPS I needed. I launched kolich.cc, but then later built and released Onyx. With summer approaching, I made my own solar shield out of cardboard and tinfoil while thinking up ten awesome .htaccess hacks for Movable Type. Continuing the awesomeness, I launched a mobile version of my blog at kolich.mobi for all of my readers on mobile devices. Like any good year, a few of my systems crashed, then recovered but I had fun with HP LaserJet printers at the office. I registered kolich.tel, went green for Iran, and figured out how to include base-64 encoded binary data in CSS. And, of course, I released Gagawa PHP 1.2 before hiking Mount San Gorgonio in the San Bernardino National Forest, but not before I wasted several days at the office on a stupid bug. I registered koli.ch (thank you Network Solutions!), and gave hot linkers a nice big 5000x5000px animated GIF to chew on. And to cap it all off, I blew the whistle on Twitter (they're spying on us) and then dove into some C++ to discover how Windows UAC works, which by the way, reminded me how much I hate Windows.
2009, the end.
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