2009 was a good year.

I love my job, I love being up near Bristol, and my wife and son make me happier than anything.

But most of all it’s been about this amazing little guy.

Here’s to 2010 being the year of family, runs, and software releases.

How to go off floor adventure triking. Lesson 1 – First, get trike off floor onto sofa like so:

Lesson 2 – Join trike on sofa:

Lesson 3 – Board trike, taking care to keep wheels perching precariously over the edge of the sofa:

Lesson 4 – Once on board, look behind before reversing. Spot potential hazzard and stop just in time:

Lesson 5 – Decide reverse isn’t all its cracked up to be. Go full speed ahead along the sofa instead:

I miss my little man. Follow him on twitter here.

It’s now just over 18 months since Galen popped into the world.

Among other things, he loves watching videos of tractors on YouTube.

That’s my boy.

On Friday we took Galen to get his hair cut. It had grown a little bit too long.

Sitting on my lap, he was fine to start with.

But soon became unimpressed.

It was all worth it though. We think the result is pretty adorable.

And so ends another year.

2008 was one of the hardest, but also most rewarding, years of my life.

Some of my favourite moments:

• Helping catch Galen as he was born in the sitting room or our home
• Seeing mum and Nick again
• Every moment with Galen
• Scoring my first 100 in cricket
• Writing and releasing another software application for a business and seeing a significant positive impact to that business
• Our trip to Belfast to see a certain group perform

Some of my least favourite moments:

• Spending a Saturday night saving our property from a flood
• Losing a cricket match when the other team needed 32 runs from the last 8 balls
• The “summer”
• Some of those nappies

There were a lot more positives than negatives.

As expected, Galen has turned our lives upside down. In 2009 I hope that I can restore a little bit of balance to my life.