Moose and I are just chilling in London, enjoying a quiet christmas dinner, movies, mince pies, and mulled wine. We went to see "It's a wonderful life" on the big screen in Angel last night, which was really sweet. Capra is a genius, still moving audiences to tears 60 odd years later.
Things have become quite busy here in London with the RjDj project going full pelt. We are madly working away on some really cool new network enabled features in the app and on the website. I'm really excited about what we're doing and can't wait to get these features shipped in the new year. Working with a team of really great people on a really great project; you can't ask for more than that.
A couple of weeks ago I spent an exciting, busy, sleep deprived weekend in Berlin with the rest of the RjDj people and a small community of great Pd patchers who were busily patching away in the offices of MoviePilot, a German internet startup. It was lots of fun to meet a bunch of the Pd guys in real life.
I only managed to see a small piece of Berlin in the surburb called Kreuzberg where we were staying. The small part of Berlin I saw really lived up to its reputation as a city that never sleeps, with bars staying open well past my bedtime. The bars we went to smelled the way that we all remember bars used to; a tangible wall of nicotine floods into every pore and lung cavity the moment you step inside. It was quite refreshing in a nostalic kind of way. Next time I go back there hopefully Moose and I can absorb a lot more of the history of that amazing place, rather than just drinking in bars and hacking with nerds like I did this time.
In my spare time I'm still hacking away on games and game prototypes, and trying to write music when the urge takes me. I recently finished 'Memorizer', which is a pure-javascript implementation of the memory game.
This year has been pretty insane and wonderful at the same time. Moose and I have had a lot of fun starting new jobs, getting married, travelling, and making even more plans than we had before. Here's to 2009; hope you and all of us have one as excellent and packed as 2008.