{"id":3022,"date":"2015-01-04T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2015-01-04T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:15:40","slug":"new-years-note-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/01\/04\/new-years-note-2015","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Note, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/16159794681\" title=\"Just finished a swim on this beautiful day in #Phuket by Colin Charles, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8585\/16159794681_e22aa7281c_n.jpg?resize=320%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Just finished a swim on this beautiful day in #Phuket\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a>This year, New Year\u2019s Eve was celebrated much closer to home \u2013 Phuket. We <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/02\/new-years-note-2014\">did miss<\/a> London, but had an awesome time as always.<\/p>\n<p>Travel for 2014: 28 trips (27 last year), visiting 22 countries (17 last year), and 49 cities (35 last year). I spent 264 days on the road (still on a trip technically into the new year so stats are always munged \u2013 versus 223 days last year). The distance travelled \u2013\u00a0435,271 km. I\u2019ve spent more time at places, rather than flying back and forth basically.<\/p>\n<p>New Year\u2019s photos this year taken with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00K7O2DJU\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00K7O2DJU&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=colincharles-20&#038;linkId=STVH57SFPDKNKBV2\">Sony DSC-RX100M III<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=colincharles-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00K7O2DJU\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> &#8212; yes, probably the best pocket camera out there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20New%20Year%27s%20Note%2C%202015&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2015%2F01%2F04%2Fnew-years-note-2015&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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We did miss London, but had an awesome time as always. Travel for 2014: 28 trips (27 last year), visiting 22 countries (17 last year), and 49 cities (35 last year). I spent 264 days on the road (still on a trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20New%20Year%27s%20Note%2C%202015&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2015%2F01%2F04%2Fnew-years-note-2015&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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We woke up on New Year's Eve in Amsterdam, so there were a lot of British Airways plane rides (now offering gate-to-gate usage of your\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5499\/11711969214_f340610681_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3149,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/01\/01\/new-years-note-2016","url_meta":{"origin":3022,"position":1},"title":"New Year&#8217;s Note, 2016","date":"1\/1\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This year we spent New Year\u2019s Eve in Vienna, Austria, and I have to say it was a lot colder compared to being in Phuket, so I think we\u2019ll do it in a more tropical country going forward. I didn\u2019t take the TripIt stats that I should have taken, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3308,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2017\/01\/01\/new-years-note-2017","url_meta":{"origin":3022,"position":2},"title":"New Year&#8217;s Note 2017","date":"1\/1\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This year we are spending New Year's Eve in Lisbon, Portugal, and I'm glad to report its much warmer than Vienna last year. TripIt says I did 25 trips, 252 days on the road, 463,491km travelled, 47 cities, and 20 countries in 2016. So less travel in terms of distance\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3493,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2019\/12\/31\/2019-ends","url_meta":{"origin":3022,"position":3},"title":"2019 ends","date":"31\/12\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Another year comes to a close. I\u2019m in Kuala Lumpur (3rd year running) for New Year\u2019s, and for the first time in a long time, I\u2019m actually happy to be here. KL is growing on me. Travel stats: 30 trips, 219 days on the road, 388,834 km travelled, 45 cities,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":562,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/05\/ticketmaster-thrives-on-mysql-replication","url_meta":{"origin":3022,"position":4},"title":"Ticketmaster thrives on MySQL Replication","date":"5\/6\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Even though the conference is long over, I still have unpublished notes sitting on my ~\/Desktop, and it only makes sense that I clean it out. These are notes from Ed Presz's session, titled For Ticketmaster, MySQL Replication is the Ticket! They are as always, pretty raw.We were all given\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MySQL&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":144,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/29\/another-day-another-review","url_meta":{"origin":3022,"position":5},"title":"Another day, another review","date":"29\/5\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"This time, it's Ken Barber's review ofopinion piece on Fedora Core 2. For Linux.com to publish this sort of drivel, scares me. 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