{"id":2084,"date":"2008-12-29T23:51:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2008-12-30T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:03:18","slug":"this-year-in-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2084","title":{"rendered":"This Year In What"},"content":{"rendered":"

E<\/span>arlier, \"Salmon<\/a>I lightly remarked on a couple of top ten lists (see here, opens in new window<\/a>). Personal observations:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Science:<\/strong> The most remarkable scientific breakthrough I thought happened a month ago, when astronomers made the first photo of an exoplanet<\/a>. Most of the current discovered exoplanets are discovered using gravitational lensing<\/a><\/em>, a technique that apparently marked a turnaround for Astronomy. It looks like Astronomy is going to be exciting for the coming years. Another item prominently in the news was the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider<\/a>. I’ve not mentioned it too many times here, but it was definitely the centerpiece of my dry jokes.<\/li>\n
  2. Tech.:<\/strong> I was truly impressed with the latest KDE 4.2 beta<\/a> and I hope that the KDE team can pull this release through in the next year. Android<\/a>, Google’s mobile platform is a good second.<\/li>\n
  3. News:<\/strong> I’ve been trying to stay out of US elections, but yes, without a doubt Obama’s election as the 4xth US president<\/a> was 2008’s main theme. There were more events happening around the world and even today (see Israeli attacks on Gaza) but none were as prominent as the US elections. As a skeptic, I hope Obama proves me wrong.<\/li>\n
  4. Canadian news: <\/strong>I’ve not mentioned anything here, but the big surprise was that the 3 Canadian opposition parties managed to agree to form a coalition. I’m not sure why I never brought it up here: I may have been too busy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This year marked a personal turning point with us leaving Nova Scotia<\/a> and settling in New Brunswick<\/a>. Pain heals<\/a> slowly<\/a> over<\/a> time<\/a>, I hear. I’m leaving the statistics for next year but my best post this year was the one called ‘From Thunder back to Sun’<\/a>. A remarkable post was the ‘Evil Twin’<\/a> one, which featured a short visit from the twin, and us celebrating a birthday in a little livingroom in the city of Saint John. There was also his second visit<\/a> to Canada this year, which brought us back to Truro, Nova Scotia, albeit for just a couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Earlier, I lightly remarked on a couple of top ten lists (see here, opens in new window). Personal observations: Science: The most remarkable scientific breakthrough I thought happened a month ago, when astronomers made the first photo of an exoplanet. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}