Well, here we are in 2011. You will have noticed I have updated the page graphic to reflect the NZ summer here, the flower on the right is a Pohutakawa tree flower which is the New Zealand Christmas tree. Generally these trees will flower almost right on December 25th, although this year they came early due to the unusual weather.
It’s been a tough year, changing jobs and family circumstances, the winter here was probably the worst I’ve ever experienced, yet the summer has turned on and I’ve had a chance to play with one of my hobbies (photography) which is where the page graphic came from.
XBMC has turned out a new release and seemed to take a lot more time to iron out the bugs this time, of course I still have at least one that persists but this release looks to be more polished than the last release which quite frankly was an embarassment to the good work many developers had put in. Even if there are a few rough edges at least XBMC is on the right track by sticking to a longer release cycle. In my opinion they should have waited it out a little longer though, a few bugs will always come in and without any way to apply bug fixes afterward without causing new bugs it’s imperative. Hopefully they’ll implement a stable tree for this sort of thing at some point, maybe they already do, but I haven’t seen it.
In other news, I’m still using Sabayon but have also purchased a Macbook which I’m slowly getting used to. Am loving the 10 hour battery life, the quick suspend resume features and now that I know how to use their trackad it’s actually quite usable.
At some point I’ll publish some more guides, presently though I’m working 15 hour days, so there’s not much time I’m afraid.
Also wanted to send out a big thanks to those of you whom read this site, there seems to be quite a large amount of you according to the stats, so I’ll try to keep you all happy, maybe you could even request a guide or two! 
Merry Christmas
Marshalleq
