On behalf of the writers at TECHGEEK.com.au, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year; and thank you for reading our blog. Who would have thought that in three years and more than two thousand posts later, we would be at this stage where we would be tackling discussing censorship and internet filtering… but then again, the decade was all about technology.

So, hopefully, you all got what you wanted; and stay tuned, because we will be posting all the cheap tech stuff you can get at this year’s clearance sales – just like last year, as well as a review of 2009.

- Terence Huynh, Executive Editor (yes, I renamed my position)

Guess what? Now you can keep up to date with TECHGEEK.com.au, Australia’s technology blog, on Facebook. This page will allow you to keep up to date with the latest news from the blog, and that’s about it. However, we plan to do more things on the Facebook page, like making it a central hub.

So make sure you become a fan of TECHGEEK.com.au, and we do apologise for the weird codes that are in our titles, but they are the fault of Ping.FM, which we are using to phase this in. We soon to hope to fix this soon.

As TECHGEEK.com.au is growing at a rapid rate, I have to fess up and make an apology to readers who were deceived in a recent story “Microsoft acquisition of Chandler Networks”, thinking that the New Zealand company Chandler Networks has been bought by Microsoft.

The full story has been removed because it failed to meet the TECHGEEK.com.au’s ethos of accurate and opinionated. I, as editor in chief, failed to realise this error, and I do apologise for those readers who have been deceived by our writer, who does own the company in question.

The writer, who will not be named, has been suspended for two weeks for failing to meet the requirements of that ethos. I do wish to say that TECHGEEK.com.au does NOT have any links with Chandler Networks, other than the writer who owns the company. The company does not own a stake in the website.

I do apologise again for those who were deceived.

If you are wondering what has happened to TECHGEEK.com.au and having not a lot of posts during the past few days; well, we all have been very busy and have been sidetracked. While we do want to continue, school work always has priority.

THIS DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE SHUTTING DOWN!!! It just means that we are reorganising our piorities as we head to the final years of schooling. However, since soon there will be a break, get ready for an inundation of new posts soon; and I will try getting the others to start contributing again.

So sorry for not telling you this sooner, but now you all know.

Because Terence H doesn't support Valentine’s Day, well he probably will in a few years but until then he has gotten me to write this season greetings, Easter, st. Patricks day, Valentines post to all you techgirls out there, if there are any.

Currently I have a Valentines already by the name of Michy E which I’m going to have a lovely dinner with tonight and then maybe catch a new release movie of some sort of thing and then tell her she’s the best thing that happened to me and we will probably end up hooking up like every metro teen these days and then seeing each other next week.

So getting back to the post, this is Techgeek's 22nd month around so I'm guessing that’s nearly 2 Valentines Day’s it’s been through 'love is in the air'.

This heart goes out to my past ex's, mainly Michy, Crystal and any other girl who feels satisfied with me.

The team over at TECHGEEK.com.au wishes everyone a Happy New Year for 2009, and a welcome to the end of a turbulent year of 2008. If you haven’t noticed; TECHGEEK.com.au has had several Year In Review posts during the past six hours, and I hope you do read them. If you missed them, here are the links:

• January & February 2008
• March & April 2008
• May & June 2008
• July & August 2008
• September & October 2008
• November 2008
• December 2008

TECHGEEK.com.au wishes everyone a Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays – depends on what you want. As you may have noticed, TECHGEEK.com.au will not be updated on December 24 and December 25, since its Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. As well, TECHGEEK.com.au will be in “Crucial Update” mode on Boxing Day and December 27th – meaning that important stories will only be posted on those days.

On the 28th, we hope to get back to we do best, until we go back into holiday mode on New Years Eve and New Years Day.

Terence Huynh
Editor in Chief

EDIT: I might have lied about not having posts on December 24 and December 25 - we just love spoiling you with gadgets and stuff... Merry Christmas though!

It’s that time of the year again, and why not have your say on what were your favourite on the funniest, the weirdest, the best, the worst and your favourite local news stories of 2008. We scoured through our archives (our amazing 1,000+ posts) to pick which one to fill up our categories. Voting will go for four weeks, and we will reveal the answers, along with our favourite and worst gadgets and our year in review. You can vote as many as you want.

Here is how the vote works:

• You can vote by Twitter by tweeting #TG08 and tweet what your vote was, or replying to our Twitter Account (@techgeekcomau)
• Comment below on the post to make your selection.
• Vote in the posts below.

This week’s vote has to do with your favourite local story of the year. Our candidates are:

• Internode starts support of IPv6, first in Australia
• Underbelly goes online, risks ignored
• eBay fails bid for immunity for its new “protection” plans
• iPhone now has an (non-exclusive) carrier in Australia

The Vote box is below (after the jump).

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