Well looks like we managed to make it to the end of 2010. 366 days ago, I wrote a review for the year of 2009 that encompassed both general history and the history of the blog. This year, I would like to do the same. First, the events of the world:

• January 4: The Burj Khalifa opens, becoming the worlds tallest human-made structure.
• Januray 12: A devastating earthquake hits Haiti.
• Februrary 12: The 2010 Winter Olympics open in Vancouver, Candada
• Februrary 27: A second devastating earthquake hits Chile.
• April 13: A third devestating earthquake hits China.
• April 14: A volcano beneath the Icelandic ice cap Eyjafjallajökull erupts, disrupting air traffic
• April 20: The BP oil spill happened
• May 2: Greece is bailed out by Eurozone and the International Monetary Fund
• June 11: The 2010 FIFA World Cup begins
• July 8: The Solar Impulse Project completes the world’s first 24 hour airplane flight
• October 10: The Netherlands Antilles is disolved
• October 22: The International Space Station overtakes the Mir as the longest human occupation of space
• October 25: A fourth devastating earthquake hits Indonesia

That’s right. Only about 13 relatively important events, compared to what I considered 18 from 2009. Of course, I left out the whole Wikileaks thing.

2010 in My Blogging

Overall, it looks like 2010 was quite uneventful, except for earthquakes. 2010 is perhaps the “Year of the Earthquake”. Let’s see what happened in the realm of my blog.

2010 blogging is broken up into two eras, separated by a giant gap between June 16 and December 22. I’m going to highlight what I personally consider the important points. Consider this a best of:

First Era (Jan 1 – June 16)

• January 4: I install Latex software on my blog in order to render mathematical statements.
• January 6: I write about Why Time Travel is Space Travel
• January 8: I write about Monkeys on Typewriters
• January 13: I wrap up the Physics of Santa series with Part III.
• January 20: I start the Numbers and Magnitude series, my longest series to date.
• February 3: I write about Citizens United v. FEC and decide it is not a big deal. I am still not sure whether or not history has shown that I was correct, though I lean toward the idea that I was. The balance of power in Republican vs. Democrat funding has not appeared to change dramatically.
• February 8: I write about how to discern today’s stardate, within a certain margin of error. (Today’s stardate is -312,436 plus or minus 417).
• March 26: I write an angry open letter to Senate Republicans.
• April 7: I wrote about Michael Steele’s use of the race card, even before John Stewart addresses it
• April 23: I write about Why We Need Net Neutrality
• May 24: I write about How to Understand the Birthday Paradox
• June 4: I graduate from high school
• After June 4, I quit blogging to work on a new project, my multiplayer game Settlement Fight, currently in a prolonged beta period. I don’t return to blogging for more than half a year.

Second Era (Dec 22 – present)

• After spending a lot of time at Denison University, I return to home for winter break. My new interest in philosophy and theology has made me decide to start blogging again.
• December 22: I return to blogging, with some reservations
• December 27: I write about how I am a naturalist-humanist and follow it up with the first half of why I don’t believe in supernatural claims.

The End… For Now

Between this article and my article about 2009, Wikipedia grew by approximately 450,000 articles. Here’s to their account of the fun to come in 2011, the International Year of Forests and Chemistry.

Good bye, good ol’ twenty ten… two-oh-one-oh… two thousand and ten… my friend.

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