2009 retrospective
So much has happened in my life in 2009 and it has been such a very mixed year.
retrospective
31 Dec 2009
2009 was a year of highs and lows for me. It was a year of wonderfully-received keynote speeches, a year of learning and growing, of launching new projects, and a year marked in its closing with a profound change in my personal life.
I entered 2008 on a mixed high. On the one hand, I'd successfully staged the world's first fully-virtual web conference, <head> and, on the other, it hadn't been a huge financial succcess. If I learned anything in 2008, it was that organizing a conference with 70 speakers by yourself, while also learning Python and Google App Engine (and creating the web site for the conference with these newly-learned technologies) was too much for one person to take on. It meant that I couldn't concentrate as much on marketing the conference and it meant that I was burnt out by the end of it. I was, however, very happy to see that <head> directly inspired at least two new conferences in 2009.
Lest you jump to conclusions from the title, no, I haven't had botox. My beloved blog, however, did just get a facelift (she's a little sore but recovering nicely!)