{"id":998,"date":"2013-01-31T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2013-12-31T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:06:45","slug":"oh-look-its-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2013\/01\/oh-look-its-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh look, it’s a blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure a lot of you have been saying “gosh, you’ve been awfully quiet over there haven’t you?” and you’d be right, I have been quiet, at least on this particular digital outlet.<\/p>\n

I have been writing on a very regular basis at my old haunt Bit-Tech<\/a><\/span>. I write something news-like over there pretty much every morning and even have a regular column on their blog. You can click here to see \u00a0the David Hing Bit-Tech blog archives<\/a><\/span>. Not only am I writing there which is of course a massive draw for anyone, \u00a0but the other guys writing for the site are uniformly excellent.<\/p>\n

I’m also no longer working at M&M and am instead working in digital marketing for an insurance company. Although I was initially reluctant to cross over to the “dark side” that is marketing, the work’s pretty good, the company is Not Evil and they let me write crazy things like this<\/a><\/span> from time to time.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a couple of projects in the works once again, most of which gaming related, and I’m tempted to write a little bit about them although I find actually writing about a project is the fastest way to kill it off for good, so I’m a little reluctant to talk about the game that I am making and have got quite far with. All I shall say is that it is set in space and I no longer recognise half the code I’ve actually written.<\/p>\n

Additional Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fun fact: It’s really rather difficult to post something on a blog that has been dormant for as long as this one has. If you go through my archives, you’ll find quite a few posts that basically make excuses as to why I haven’t posted for a while.<\/p>\n

There’s even a sub-category of that type of post whereby I comment on the fact that there are a lot of posts where I apologise for not posting for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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