2006

In a few hours I will be leaving for Malaysia, specifically Singapore and Tioman island, to spend the holidays there. I feel privileged to be able to end my year like this, and I dare say I think it’ll be good for me.

Quickly, before the year ends, here’s a madly short look back at the past year.

2005

  • Worked on “Shuttle“

    • Khaled‘s brain-child Shuttle is a new backend for WordPress. It’s been a very interesting project, because it’s been molded by a number of highly clever people. The end result is much better than the current WordPress backend, and part of Shuttle will be included in WordPress 2.0 once that’s launched sometime soon.

  • Got Fauna out the door

    • My open-source theme for WordPress, “Fauna“, had been on the shelf for quite a while. It’s nice to have it out of the door.

  • New installments

2005 was a good year for my monthly installments. Possibly the best year yet. I’m proud to have made such installments as Arboretum, Stagecraft, Surr?alisme Recut, and Undergrowth.

2006

  • Noscope redesign

    • I have early sketches done, and plenty of reasons for this. Noscope will see a redesign sometime in 2006. The focus will be to simplify things, remove text, increase transparency of content, and highlight sub-sections.

  • Relaxation & health

    • I plan to focus on getting and staying as healthy as possible, next year. What this entails, I have yet to plan.

  • Fauna final

    • A number of bugs have surfaced for Fauna, and I plan to fix these quickly and be done with it.

  • More installments

My installments are the best things I’ve done with my website, and they keep getting more interesting, challenging and surprisingly, fun to make. The no-demands-to-myself feel of them and the randomness with which they are devised every month have kept making me proud. So I see no reason to stop.

Have a happy holiday and a great new year.

Reminiscent of the year 2004

A year is a long time. 365 days. 8760 hours. 525600 minutes. And just like a year can be divided into numbers, so can some events.

Here are some numbers, that represent the year 2004, to Noscope.

2004

  • I have made 12 installments á 5 pictures each, totalling 60 pictures.
  • This brings the total to number of installments to 45, and the total number of individual installments pictures to 225.
  • Out of these, I have released 17 layered tiff files.
  • The compressed source files for these installments, take up 1,37 gigabytes.
  • I’ve taken 17 photo sets containing in all 417 + 23 + 85 + 17 + 92 + 121 + 241 + 68 + 59 + 106 + 420 + 99 + 220 + 399 + 66 + 28 + 51 = 2512 pictures.
  • These pictures take up 1.95 gigabytes of data.
  • Out of this came 7 online photoalbums, containing in total 8 + 30 + 44 + 25 + 21 + 17 + 15 = 160 photos. That’s approximately 6% of the total pictures taken.
  • Noscope grew to a total of 450 entries.
  • Out of these 450 entries, 295 were sidenotes. That leaves 155 entries filed in 19 other categories.
  • 26 were filed in “Politics“.
  • The number of comments on Noscope grew to 1,051.
  • 152 of those comments were left on topics filed in “Politics”.
  • The 5 most commented articles were Favatars, About WordPress, Usability and Open Source Development, The Cost of War, Iraq – You Break It, You Buy it and Migrating from Internet Explorer to Firefox.
  • Noscope jumped from Pagerank 4 to 5.