I’ve been pretty fascinated with the idea of recording my own location for a while now. I started using Foursquare at SXSW in 2009 and have mostly continued to do so since then (I have over 3,700 check-ins). You can see my check-ins being syndicated back to this website (using Keyring Social Importers), and if you scroll back through the history of the main page, you’ll get maps aggregating a few check-ins at a time.

On May 11 (today) in 2009, I started full time at Automattic. I’ve written about my experiences over the years, and marked the occasion each year in some small way. Let’s continue the tradition.

This year has actually been a particularly big year. Probably the headliner happened only a week ago; Automattic raised $160 million, on a valuation of $1 billion. That’s a lot of money. That’s a large valuation, and it feels kind of weird to be employee #35 of a company of that scale. We’re now at 247 employees, and we span 30[1] different countries. Whoah.

Last weekend, I went to a friends house for a “story telling” night. The theme was “time”. I decided to tell the story about how I cut my thumb with a hatchet recently, and someone recorded it, so now you get to hear it as well.

http://dentedreality.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/A-Moment-In-Time.m4a

(It’s pretty quiet, so you’ll need to turn your volume up to hear it properly).