I’ll probably be on the road when this gets posted, so I’m writing it beforehand.

It’s been an interesting year to say the least. This year, I went from having dropped out of school to having three semesters completed and behind me. I’ll be returning to campus at the end of this week, but until then I’m staying at home, and enjoying not having to wake up at 7:30 in the morning. It was just over a year ago that I bought the collegegeek.org and set up a WordPress installation on it. Later on I transferred that site to a brand new AMD64 Ubuntu Server, which was built from parts left over from my old desktop.

Over the last week or so, I’ve been entertaining myself by playing “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess” on the Nintendo Gamecube. The game is absolutely amazing, and it’s the first game I’ve played extensively in quite some time. I would like to play it on the Nintendo Wii, but I don’t have one at the moment. I do plan on saving up and buying one probably around February, assuming they can be found in stores. The Wii is an intriguing system. At the beginning of the year, I was most interested in the Playstation 3, and while I’m still interested in the PS3 from the hardware perspective, the Wii absolutely amazes me in terms of gameplay, and I’ve yet to even touch one.

Also, this year Deluge got off the ground. What started as mumblings on a forum about the lack of a good GTK+ Bittorrent client for Linux turned into a full-fledged project. It started by me and another forum user, Kripkenstein, emailing source code back and forth. Then, we got the project hosted on Google Code. However, Google Code lacked a way to have a wiki and a page for binary and source packages, which oddly they have since added, so we began looking for a new host. One host, Webfaction, offered a nice deal for open-sourced Python projects, but upon closer inspection, it didn’t offer all the features we were looking for. However, once an administrator of Webfaction saw our project, he offered us what was essentially a paid hosting plan at no charge, so long as we agreed to display a “Hosted By” link at the bottom of our pages, which turned out to be a great deal. The sites is now available at http://deluge-torrent.org, and is running on a combination of WordPress and Trac. One impressive milestone for Deluge was when it showed up in Ubuntu Linux 7.04′s universe repository, making installation easier. At the time of writing, the latest released version of Deluge is 0.4.1.

There are a number of other things I could comment on, but nothing in particular jumps to my attention at the moment, so to anyone still reading, Happy New Year.