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a few days before Christmas…

December 22nd, 2005

Well, well, well… it’s a few days before Christmas and I’m finishing up my work for the year. Working with OM has been and continues to be a great pleasure, even more so as I am still able to work from home, which is a great blessing. I feel that this year we have made some major progress with the Linux project – not all of it will be immediately visible in the next version of our internal Linux distro (which is due to be released next month), but we’ve put a lot of the infrastructure in place for the version of our distro that’s intended for release to the general public. The build system is such a great tool, nicely intergrated with our CVS and building new CD sets (and jigdo files) in about an hour whenever we need them. Reliable testers are great as well, thanks Mats, you’ve been great. And having Tom in the UK now coordinating our testing is a big answer to prayer as well.

On the personal side, it’s been a great year as well. Can’t really name it all… the trip to Mali in January, Soul Survivor with Mari and Steve in August, good friendships getting even better… yeah, I guess I can’t really complain . Life could be a lot more complicated than it is at the moment. Of course the one complication I wouldn’t be too unhappy about would be for that special lady to come into my life… but hey, I’m still looking .

The next year is promising to be busy… already have two trips booked before March, first to OM’s Global Orientation conference in January (which I’m very much looking forward to because I get to meet loads of people, not unimportant for someone working in the solitude of his living room most of the time) and then to my office in Carlisle in February, another meeting I’m quite looking forward to because it means getting together as a team again for a few days. And I’ve even managed to somehow make sure that none of my trips so far interferes with my leading the band in the “Service on Sunday” at my church…

Anyway, that’s all for now – just wanted to get something down before Christmas. Not sure if there’s gonna be anything else, so I’ll wish you a very great and blessed Christmas right now… take some time for a little break and think about what Christmas really means!

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