For a lot of people, 2016 has been a pretty crappy year for a number of reasons: politics, celebrities dying, terrible flops of movies, etc.. 2016 has actually been pretty good to me for a number of reasons, but it has also been pretty crap for one very big reason: my health.

This year has been my roughest year health-wise since I was diagnosed with PSC in 2010. In February, it saw me experience my first serious liver infection, and following a hospital stay and some extended time off work, for the rest of the year I have been riding the rollercoaster day-by-day. Some days have been great, others terrible.

Nevertheless, I look forward to a healthier 2017.

Here are my highlights of my blog posts for the year, keeping in mind that illness has prevented me from blogging as much as I would have liked.

January

• New Mobile: Sony Xperia Z5: A new phone is always a highlight, as is the page detailing my phone history!

February

• Fake Tree Trout Through a Wall Frame: Seeing my first baseball game in Brisbane.

May

• Rough Few Months: My health issues for the first part of the year.

June

• Modding Rey’s Speeder: My first decent Lego mod, with pictures!
• Vale NoSquint: Normally, something like this wouldn't be a highlight. But because NoSquint has been such a central part of my internet browsing experience for over 10 years, it's worth including.
• Now Secure! Enabling Let’s Encrypt HTTPS: A big milestone in the ~15 year history of this site!

July

• Open-Sourcing My .bashrc File on GitHub: I've started to use git (and GitHub) quite a bit this year. Open sourcing my overly complex .bashrc file was a big deal for me.
• PC Build History: Following on from the phone history page, I also did a PC history one.

August

• Talking at the UQ Engineering + Technology Careers Evening: A nervous and rewarding evening.
• Monitor Colour Problems Over HDMI: Something that took me a while to figure out, and is definitely bookmarked for future reference.

November

• Graphics Update & Battlefield 1: A new graphics card is always a geek highlight. Which reminds me, I need to update the PC build history page with this...

December

• Star Wars: Rogue One (spoilers!): I suspect the now yearly Star Wars movie, and my review of it, will now be a staple of these year-in-reviews.
• The Best and Worst of 2016: Always a highlight. I just rewatched Zootopia tonight, and have no regrets naming it my best movie of the year.