It has been a bad year for my blog. Early on I started working on a new blogging platform that would also support a number of other content types to better reflect my life. I wanted to host my own data from my running and mountain biking activities and I wanted to review at least a part of all the tech and sporting equipment I’ve bought over the year. None of this came to pass… …and I’m quite ashamed… …and consider it a personal failure. The new platform is still under construction and I’m thinking of breaking it into parts and doing a partial release as soon as possible, though that might still be closer to the end of Q1 2015. New hardware for my office has been ordered a few days ago and I hope I will get some time to do some serious bare knuckle programming done as soon a…