Tech Explorer

Yesterday marked a milestone for this blog. It is two years since I started this blog, and called it home for my little piece of the Internet. Looking back it is interesting to see how the voice of the blog has changed.

It started life as a place to write about my explorations with technology while I was part of the RUBRIC project. The programming language I wrote most about then was Python, and that was mostly all I wrote about.

I then moved to South Australia and took up a position as the Systems Librarian at the University of Adelaide. My posts started to be more about Ubuntu Linux, which I’ve been using full time on my laptop for a number of years now, programming in Perl and my photography.

Now I’m working in the Office of Research at Flinders University. I’m now programming in PHP and exploring so called “Web 2.0″ technologies such as AJAX in my development work. I’ve also recently released my first WordPress plugin, WordPress Blogroll to Google CSE, and I’m working on another with the kind people at the Libraries Interact blog.

My professional interests have evolved over the years as well. Moving away from programming, although I think I’ll always be interested in development work, to project management and a larger view of the higher education sector.

It has been an interesting journey to see aspects of my life written about for the world to see, especially those that have changed, or those that are challenging to put out there like my photos.

As with all posts of this type, it is time for some obligatory stats:

• There are 232 posts, in 9 categories with 180 tags in the blog today
• There are 242 comments and Akismet has caught a staggering 8,535 spam comments
• The top three posts are:

Slow browsing using Firefox on Ubuntu

Installing NVIDIA drivers under Ubuntu - Feisty Fawn

Using JQuery for an Ajax loading message

It has been a great experience writing my own blog, and I look forward to seeing what the next year will bring. Many thanks also to those that have posted comments, it is rewarding to see that people are getting some value from what I write about.