29 Today | Comments (16)
Posted in Life on 21st June 2006, 5:19 pm by Stuart
I’m 29 years old today. I’m sure my perception of time is changing so that it seems as though each year is going by at an increasingly faster rate. I’m not actually that worried about getting older even though it does seem like everyone around me is younger these days!
Tonight I’ll be celebrating by opening all of my presents with my fiance Sandra and our Daughter Emma whilst reminiscing what it was like when I were a lad. (opening presents at 05:45 seemed to be a little too early).
Time is a funny thing especially in terms of the web. We all take the web for granted and forget that this relatively speaking, a very young industry. Even though I’ve been working with websites since 2002, so much has happened in even that short time: Web standards has really begun to take off, CSS has made it’s way into the mainstream, Browser support is beginning to level out. More recently DOM scripting and Ajax have come to the fore and solidified the usage of older technologies into much more usable solutions.
Of course we do still have to be careful that we are not viewing the world through rose-tinted glasses. It’s all to easy to see the web with a myopic view provided by only listening to what the standards community is doing. But that being said, no-one can argue that there really is progress happening on the web. With that in mind I am looking forward to see what will be happening on the web in a year’s time? Anyone care to provide their predictions?
“it does seem like everyone around me is younger these days!”
heheheh… grandad.
Happy birthday to you… and so on….. I have that everyone is younger than me feeling but then I’m about to be 31 in a few months(lol).
29, i can’t remember being that young!
In 1 year, i predict that lots of people will be talking about @media2007
Happy birthday to you,
You belong in a zoo,
You look like a monkey,
And you smell like one too…
/coat
P.S. Sorry I’m late. You should blog things like this a lot earlier in the day, damn you!
Hope you had a good day mate.
When I was your age I had to carry coals to my parent’s house every morning at 4am to heat the oven and pre-chew the stale bread I had to fight wild bears for. When the bread was not soft enough I’d have gotten a beating that would temporarily kill me!
Happy Birthday!
@y’all: Heh heh thanks everyone!
You are just over a year older than me, man. I’ll be 28 next week. Sliding down that scary slope towards 30 is kinda weird, huh? Not as weird as Chris Heilmann though - he’s almost 45!
Happy (slightly belated) Birthday!
I’ll be hitting 30 in January, so I’ll tell you what it’s like just to give you some fore-warning
You’re older than me. Well done!
Matt just pointed out it was your birthday yesterday. It is the same day as mine
I hope you had a good one.
@Everyone: Thanks for the happy birthday wishes.
@Jasmine: A belated Happy Birthday to you too! Another solstice child eh?
@Stuart - Ssorry I missed it! I hope you had a good one anyway…a few more years and you’ll have caught up to me! LOL!
Hi Stuart! Just checked in and saw this post… Belated birthday wishes - hope it was enjoyable!
@Shane and Derek: Thanks! I had a great time.
Talk about being late… Well, being on parental leave has to count as my excuse. Many wishes and may your summer be fantastic!