{"id":3646,"date":"2025-01-06T20:18:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T12:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2025-01-06T20:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T12:18:44","slug":"hello-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2025\/01\/06\/hello-2025","title":{"rendered":"Hello 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I write, but just not here. Client sites, X, etc. so there is chronicling, but just not on the blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What changed from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2024\/01\/01\/hello-2024\">Hello 2024<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got married. I moved into the flat. Companies have gone up and down, like life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>170 days on the road, 308,832km travelled, 38 cities, and 16 countries. I have never travelled this little in recent life, but maybe the whole getting married thing (planning a wedding is no mean feat), and sorting the flat out (dealing with incompetent interior designers, sorting things there, etc.), caused this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is 2025, and I\u2019m actually planted in Kuala Lumpur, not having done an end of year trip, to usher in the New Year somewhere else. I started the year in Paris, and I ended the year in Kuala Lumpur, tired, and maybe a bit burnt out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working hard to get back into the grind; don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019ve been doing nothing but grinding, but c\u2019est la vie.<\/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%20Hello%202025&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2025%2F01%2F06%2Fhello-2025&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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Client sites, X, etc. so there is chronicling, but just not on the blog. What changed from&nbsp;Hello 2024? I got married. I moved into the flat. Companies have gone up and down, like life. 170 days on the road, 308,832km travelled, 38 cities, and 16 countries. I have never [&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%20Hello%202025&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2025%2F01%2F06%2Fhello-2025&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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Stats update from\u00a0Hello 2023: 219 days on the road (less than 2022! -37, over a month, shocking), 376,961km travelled, 44 cities, 17 countries. Can\u2019t say why it was less, because it felt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":807,"url":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/03\/stewart-and-i-on-lugradio","url_meta":{"origin":3646,"position":1},"title":"Stewart and I on LugRadio","date":"3\/5\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Stewart (Melbourne, Australia) and I (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) are featured in LugRadio Live! USA 2008. Why? We were one of the few people that travelled far enough to get to LugRadio Live.27:30-27:40 in case you want to fast forward. \"I don't even know where Malaysia is!\" exclaims someone on LugRadio.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1508,"url":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/27\/tedx-kuala-lumpur","url_meta":{"origin":3646,"position":2},"title":"TEDx Kuala Lumpur","date":"27\/5\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A fan of TED? Yes, ideas worth spreading, question is when I can ever actually attend a TED event... And therein comes TEDx, which is an independently organised TED event. 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