December was supposed to be a time of catching up with stuff, but it didn’t work out like that.

Firstly my mother broke her ankle and then got a severe chest infection and had to be rushed to A&E, and spent all of Christmas and New Year Day in Trafford General. Things were, let’s say, quite dicey for a while.

Second, the cooling to the top floor of our datacentre failed at 18:00 on Christmas Eve – I then left the building at 04:30 on Christmas Day, missed the midnight revelries and spent the day completely shattered. New Years Eve I spent asleep due to exhaustion by the time the clock rolled round to 22:00.

So, 2011 snuck up on me, and the end of 2010 passed me by. Let’s see what it holds.