One last Year in Review came in, this one from Swarm, formerly known as FourSquare.

I don't know who is still using Location-Based check-ins these days. I do get a kick from seeing the random "this is a place you visited 10 years ago" pop-ups every so often.  I am surprised that even though I didn't travel any great distance, I still managed to find over 60 new places to visit locally.

 I came across this demo via reddit recently.  Before Apple bought NeXT to bring us OS X, Apple had A/UX (Apple Unix) which ran on classic macs (I think before System 7).  In my early days on the Internet I came across A/UX 3.0 installation discs (which I am pretty sure I've backed up somewhere).  I wonder if I can get a Basilisk instance of this running...

 TVTime, the app I use to track what I've watched on TV (and in various streaming services) gave me a "rewind" this year. I think some of my stats are a little skewed because I marked a lot of episodes watched in 2022 when I had really watched them in years prior, and I only really rated like 4% of the episodes that I watched.  Maybe in 2023 I'll rate things more consistently to see what comes out of it.  I do want to move my past movie watching from Trakt.tv at some point, but that's a project for another day. 

It's funny that I started the year with Sgt. Frog.  It's been 10 (or more!) years since I started this series and I still have over 100 episodes and a few movies left to complete the series.  Maybe in 2023 I'll binge it ;-) And yes, I am watching Gogglebox in three different countries 😂

 While this isn't quite a "year in review," it's interesting to grab a snapshot of various Twitter interactions this time of year and do a year-to-year comparison (usernames for this year at the end of the post). I am not sure what time period the Twitter Circle application is sampling to generate this, but I do wonder how much the migration to mastodon-based services has impacted this year's circles 🤔

Another Year In Review based on the data exhaust of my social presence on the web.  This one from the popular site Reddit.  I guess Banana Units is this year's popular measure (again), and I scrolled enough to go to the mood over 1 time 😂.

I guess in 2022 I decided to dress up my Snoovatar and make it a little less generic.  The clothing pictured is what I got for free during Halloween. My top interests aren't a particular surprise, since I browse local city and state subreddits, gaming subreddits, and spaces like the instructional design subreddit. I guess I wasn't one of the top 1%ers of Karma this year (as seemed to be the case with many on Reddit lol). Considering that I don't post all that often, not bad 😂

 Well, it's January, so that means that various apps that you use, that collect various analytics for you (*cough* *cough*) have created some nifty year-in-reviews for you.

I thought I'd kick it off this year with my Podcatcher app (PocketCast). I don't recall getting a year-in-review for this last year, so it was interesting to see it pop up.  Admittedly, I don't think I listened to as many podcasts in 2022 as I usually do. The top categories are no surprise based on what I usually queue up to listen,  I think that Education might have been a bit higher if I also listened to my linguistics (work-related) podcasts on this app.  I was surprised that I listened to that many episodes of The Delta Flyers . I did end up binging a lot of episodes of the Delta Flyers, but ultimately I gave up on episode recap style of podcasts (both the Delta Flyers and Trek.fm) because my backlog of podcasts was rather large.  I guess I have to clear the queues in January for all the new episodes that will launch in 2023 ;-)

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Να που ήρθε και το 2023! Για να δούμε...θα παραμήνει απροσκλητος μουσαφίρης ο κωρονοϊός, η θα πάει και αυτός σπίτι του τελικά;

Φέτος και πάλι ξέχασα να πάω να πάρω μια βασιλόπητα, αλλά με τα τόσα γλυκά που είχαμε για τα χριστούγεννα είμαι δικαιολογημένος.  Του χρόνου θα πρέπει να αναλάβω καλύτερα.