Well... okay. To be accurate, it would appear that I didn't blog at all throughout 2007 and 2008!
Just to bring you, dear reader (purposely using the singular here - is anyone still tracking this feed, or did I manage to shake everybody off?), up to date, here are a few of the things I did during my vacation from blogging... in totally shuffled order:
- Visited a few beautiful places in Quebec
- Learned to play, reasonably well by my admittedly low standards, the 3rd movement (Presto Agitato) of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
- Finished a basement, and built a set of stairs to get there
- Got a job as professor of computer science here in Montreal
- Learned a bit about caring for the well-being of a family
- Got befriended in Twitter and Facebook by about a zillion strangers.
- Left my position at Socialtext
- Started putting together a French-language online course on social software.
- Did an experiment in homeschooling (something very rare in these parts).
- Read a big pile of - wait for it - books! Yes, books!
- Collaborated with Stephen Downes and Daniel Lemire in an investigation of diversity in social networks (more on that later)
- Learned to play, reasonably well by my admittedly low standards, Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls of Fire and Ray Charles' What'd I Say
- Learned more than I would have wished about petty academic infighting (thankfully from a relatively uninvolved standpoint)
- Worked on building wikis that support multilingual communities
- Almost got to meet my geek idol, Jon Udell
- Started playing rock'n'roll with my bro again
- Discovered the inspirational FAIL blog
- Decided to start blogging again
- Waited some more
- Started blogging again!
Addendum: This post would never have happened if it hadn't been for the persistent encouragements of my esteemed colleague Daniel Lemire.
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