2008 Achievements

Quick, before I forget:

• Moved from Brighton to London.
• Gained an incredible amount of time.
• Moved again in London from an imperfect living environment to a far more suitable domicile.
• Rebuilt the studio: bigger, better.
• Avoided hysteria upon finding some favourite vintage equipment had developed Alzheimers through neglect. I'm sorry, gear!
• Bought a wonderful new DJ mixer.
• Recorded several trial new DJ mixes in varying styles.
• Captured some ambient experiments.
• Improvised live with a Tenori-on and analogue effects.
• Acquired another guitar (still gotta restring it, though).
• Avoided breaking my own heart.
• Built a software Tenori-on in an afternoon with new bleeding edge web technology.
• Coded a last.fm and DMN content mash-up on Google's AppEngine.
• Hacked together some Yahoo! Pipes and PopFly feed visualization widgets.
• Prototyped an AIR visualization of EchoNest song analysis data.
• Became more confident in my career.
• Got headhunted by a couple of large corporations.
• Took care of business.
• Dropped some bad habits.
• Maintained a sustainable level of alcoholism.
• Kept the insomnia under control.
• Took a proper holiday.
• Visited India.
• Evaded several opportunities to go crazy or have a mental breakdown [citation needed].
• Conceived of another patentable idea.
• Improved health.
• Gained a little bit of weight.
• Jettisoned lots of clutter.
• Thought up some new pseudonym and project themes.
• Bought a large, wide-screen plasma television to replace my faithful small CRT.
• Evolved to be a little more compassionate [citation needed].
• Procrastinated.
• Cooked more.
• Enslaved a robot to clean my carpets.