Hello 2009

OK, so that was a long one. Surely anyone should come back from that extended Christams break fighting fit and ready to go. (cough, hack, sneeze). I need a holiday.

OK so what happens next? Well firstly I have decided. No really really decided that this blog will henceforth be daily. Even if it's only a few words. I'm out and about every day so I really should have more to say about the life of an itinerant Mac fixer upper, even if I edit out all the stuff that will loose all my clients! Lets see how we go. Even if nothing happens I'll try to put up a small snippet of Mac info that may be useful to someone somewhere.

So, what happened recently. Well a rare trip to the local pub just before Christmas found me coincidentally meeting one of the four people that I actually managed to follow on Twitter, which was interesting. Out of a randomly assembled group of four people, all four turned out to use Macs in their work. Several beers later and some interesting plans were mooted. Keep em peeled between now and Easter for stuff happening in the podosphere* as a result.

The DHM mobile failed to make it though the holidays, detonating its engine in Devon on New Years eve, so the hunt is on for a new, estate sized, dog carrying diesel car. This one will get stickered with the DHM logo to within an inch of its life.

OK, enough for a Monday morning. Happy New Year to all.

* I claim this. It's mine.

Welcome to the Doctor Happy Mac blog

Welcome to the Doctor Happy Mac blog. The interactive companion to the new Doctor Happy Mac website. This blog is designed to give me a space to chat about my life as an itinerant Mac support specialist. Going out and about, meeting people and seeing how and why they choose and use their Mac computers (and iPhones and iPods etc) means that I often come across items and thoughts that I consider interesting, and hopefully by reading this you may find them to be so too. While I certainly expect that most of the content on here will be in some way Mac related, I hope that you will bear with me if I dive off at a tangent from time to time as the mood takes me. After all, there is more to life than just Macs, isn't there?

In tandem with this blog I'm going to make an effort to keep up to date with interesting Apple news via the rss news feed on my new site. Feel free to visit and subscribe to the news feed.

As a first post I'd just like to get a few thank you's out of the way. Firstly, thank you to all the Doctor Happy Mac early adopters. I'm glad you found me. I'm happy I was able to help you and I look forward to standing by your Macs for many years. Secondly a big DHM "yay!" to Tom Wright, who bashed the new DHM website together in jig time and provides the back end cms that allows me to spend my time fixing Macs rather than learning how to code. If you want to look Tom up (web guru, tech genius and committed tidal bore surfer), visit him at www.severnsolutions.co.uk. A more widely interested person you could not hope to meet.

Ok. Blog one over, see you all tomorrow. Same Bat time, same Bat channel.