After 9 thoroughly enjoyable Mighty Meetups, spanning just over a year we have decided to make January 11th 2012 our last Mighty Meetup.

Our topic for January will be Design, and we have a great selection of speakers lined up and ready to teach the rest of us a thing or two.

This won't mean an end to Aberdeen's web meetups though, and we'll be making a big announcement on the night; be sure to come along and find out whats happening! If you do miss it details will of course be posted on my blog, on the deer digital blog, and twitter.

I hope to see you all there, and thank you for all of your support over the last 14 months.

So I spent a month without coffee. It was quite interesting.

The first week or two were spent in withdrawal. I was getting nasty headaches everyday at around 2 or 3pm. This was not helped by the bug I had at the time.

In about my third week I was feeling pretty happy with myself, I hadn't given into temptation and had that "just one cup". That said I did have a little bit of tiramisu, but with an Italian girlfriend what could I do!

I think it was about three weeks in that I realised I was getting a decent nights sleep. Nodding off shortly after my head hit the pillow, unlike the half an hour or more I would lie awake before that.

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So I've now spent a whole week without coffee. Well, I say without coffee; that's not entirely true. I have had a single cup of decaf instant, but I'm not counting that one.

Things have been a little challenging so far. The trickiest thing has been my "first thing in the morning autopilot coffee making". Catching myself just after putting the kettle on, and having to resort to a glass of squash, or water instead has been interesting to say the least.

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Inspired by Mark McAulay's #meatismurdermonth, I have decided to try something similar myself. I am going to attempt to spend an entire month without, that wonderful constant companion coffee.

Recently I have been drinking more, and more coffee. Between 1 and 2 mugs from a Cafetiere, plus countless instants every day.

I want to see if I can go cold turkey.

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Okay I have finally accepted that my website is not going to be ready anytime soon, and have opted instead for a ready-rolled WordPress theme. I have spent days looking for a great theme, I've searched high and low, travelled the world (wide web) and installed things that would make grown men cry.

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