Wishing everyone a happy new year 2022! 2022 is already shaping up to be an interesting year, with the current spread of Omicron COVID virus. Thankfully I’m fully vaccinated and already had a booster shot for maximum protection. Its a good opportunity to bunker down and focus on some tasks. Introverts unite (in your own space)! Some of the things I want to achieve this year are: Blog more, and with more pictures!...
2021 has been a tough year. I’ve been absent from working on my own personal projects during the later half of 2021. This has mainly been due to other family members' health issues and dealing with the aftermath. 2021 has been hard on a lot of people given the current COVID-19 circumstances. Anyway, I thought I’d look back and see how I went with sticking with my original goals and plans for 2021....
I’ve been running my website since 2012. Originally I was running Wordpress software for the backend. I found it was slow and cumbersome and to be honest I felt it was a bit risky from hackers (too many moving parts, requires php, with a mysql backend database, and with so many security exploits with vulnerable plugins). It wasn’t until last year that I came across static site generation and I promptly switched to using Hugo instead....
I normally don’t post ‘work related’ things on my blog as I like to keep them separate from my ‘fun’ however I’m too excited for this news so I just have to share it here. After nearly 13 years in my current job as a Systems Engineer at Morgans Financial, a stock broking company. While I really enjoyed my time at Morgans working with a great bunch of people, I felt that I had grown as much as I could there and needed to expand my knowledge and experience and I had to go elsewhere to further my IT career....
Last year has been a little challenging to say the least. Not only on a global scale, but on a personal level as well. It’s now time to leave all of that mess behind us and look ahead to the new year with hopefully a clean slate. Here are a few things that I personally want to achieve this year in no particular order: Spend more time on the piano....