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Anyone who has kept an eye on my blog for a while will know that I took a long break from posting this year. In fact a quick look at the archives list on the right allows even the new visitor to discern this. Well I guess I should say something about that.

I had a tough year, no doubt about that. I split up with a woman that I truly believed was the love of my life in April. I spent much of the year processing that, dealing with the fact that the next decade is going to look a whole lot different from how I thought it might. Cape Town can be a tough place to feel depressed - the beauty is awe-inspiring, but I feel surrounded by a pressure to be living my perfect life. How can I not when the sea is so blue, the mountains are so beautiful, life is so good.

Probably not quite what you're thinking - I'm talking about networking up PCs as performance art. Sounds pretentious, but it was somewhat inadvertent, at least the performance element was. I spent today helping Wooloo's Thankyou project in Khayelitsha (Cape Town's biggest township). You can check their site for the full story, but basically it's a multimedia art exhibition occuring simultaneously in a New York gallery and a Khayelitsha shopping mall with webcam links between the two.

It pretty much came down to me to get the Khayalitsha side of things running. Which meant networking up 6 PCs, configuring some caching to speed things up and setting up the webcam and an upload facility. All on a bandstand in front of several hundred people with a DJ and some dancing mixed in to add to the performance experience. Quite an experience, lots of fun, but now I'm too tired to write any more. Anyway visit the site and release the rands!