And after a six-month hiatus, I'm back at the blog. Coincidentally, for the same six month period I stopped studying Japanese. Pretty much the day I got back from Tokyo, I put away my dictionary and didn't open it again until yesterday. Still, I'm back now and I'm starting private lessons again tonight so sit down and I'll make you a cuppa.

So, what's been keeping me away from the blogs and books for the last six months? Loads of stuff, to be honest. The new job for one: Digital Media Studio Manager for Whitespace. I wish I could say it's like herding monkeys just because I want to use the phrase "just like herding monkeys" but as it is, it's more like...managing a digital media studio. Or something like that. Outside work (but still within the geek realm), I've been working on Wwwitter, a cool little tool to show twitter discussions about a web page. Regular readers will of course recognise this as a direct copy of noodle but using someone else's content. It turns out that was all that was required to grab the attention of the internets.

The biggest thing to keep me busy, however, was getting engaged to my beautiful lady, Jenni and all the organising that entails. Well, all the organising Jenni's been doing and the confused nodding from me that entails. I'll try and post when I have more details but the big day is 12th September. Don't worry if you haven't received any kind of 'save the date' notification or anything, Jenni's sent hers out, I've just been a bit slow.