2009 Summary
2009 has been a busy, fun year! In January, after selling all my furniture and giving up my apartment in Waterloo, I drove down to Texas. I spent the winter in the beautiful beach town of South Padre Island, returning in the spring. I had the pleasure of spending the summer around friends and family in Guelph and Kitchener-Waterloo. Melissa and I planned our upcoming " overseas experience " to New Zealand. In August, I sold my car and we flew to Fiji , then New Zealand . We've since traveled around a lot of the North Island , and I have been taking flying lessons . While in Texas, I wrote about the US health care experience . It will be interesting to see how that turns out. I also wrote some management and software development articles, about getting people to respond to email , why change is sometimes bad , and why one good programmer is better than 100 average ones. I complained about the poor state of competition in Canadian mobile and bro