I'm turning 30 on Thursday, which is a nice round number, until I turn 0x30 "again" in 18 years.  It's got me very nostalgic.  When I was in my early 20s I always expected to look at 30 as a big deal, and this may seem fairly geek of me, but once you grok number bases, it's hard to get as excited about numbers that are round in one base. :)

I'm pretty happy with the way things in general are going, looking back on 2003, here's some highlights:

• We brought my sister-in-law, her husband and two kids over from Zimbabwe to live permanently in the states
• Went to Malaysia along with my wife and spoke at TechEd Malaysia
• Began my 3rd year at Corillian, this last year as Chief Architect
• Spoke at TechEd 2003 and gave a very highly rated talk
• Spoke at ASPLive! (and will again this year)
• Was asked to join INETA
• Gave lots of User Group talks, both with INETA and without, and generally had a blast
• Did some Beat Poetry at a local club
• Did some articles.
• Wrote down the contents of my C:/utils folder
• Taught C# at OIT
• Got Slashdotted
• Bought and sold some stock
• Travelled all over talked to various banks about .NET and Corillian
• Got a TabletPC
• Rode on a Segway!
• Went to PDC and blogged/scooped the keynote from my Blackberry in the greatest feat of moblogging since God talked to Moses (AFAIK)
• Was renewed into the RD program for another year and spent time with some of the greatest .NET minds (and nicest people) out there
• Taught Rory how to make C# beep.
• Wrote some .NET Zen Koans
• Thought about 2003's first post on my blog
• Got tired and took some time off

So, here's to turning 30, 0x1E, 36 (octal), and 0001-1110 all in the same day.