Chris’ Blog #55: 2009 In Review

2009 has been quite big year, not just for my life but for most of the world. What will 2009 be known as? What will it be remembered for?

News
Possibly the biggest news of 2009 is that of Barack Obama, the first black president of the USA.

Lol.

Swine Flu was possible the biggest letdown of the year, tons of hype, bu tlets face it nothing spectacular happened unlike when it last cropped up in 1918 (Killing 2.5% of the world’s population) rather than this time round, only killing 0.026%, though I guess that figure is rising, or is it? Surely the population is rising faster than swine flu deaths, maybe the figure is going down?

I guess a piece of news that doesn’t seem much now but might later is that of north korea, you know, the crazy guys? After more nuclear tests this year, I think ’09 will be looked at as the year we should’ve done something about those crazy guys, rather than just saying “No please don’t”.

Film
In my opinion a quiet year for film, then again the two biggest (Avatar and Sherlock Holmes) are yet to be released. Looking at the top 5 films of the year (in terms of profits)
- Harry Potter 6
- Ice Age 3
- Transformers 2
- Up
- 2012

Looking at those being our top 5, it seems quite a bad year for film. Maybe next will be better, Toy Story 3, Iron Man 2 and Harry Potter 7 (Part One) leading the way. Here’s hoping.

Tech
The iPhone 3GS was released this year, giving people the features they wanted years ago, hoorah!

theTechLife got upgraded to 2.0, fantastic stuff. EDIT: Make that 2.49

Twitter is the fastest growing website accross the world, with a whopping growth of 1382% though only 40% of those members actually still hang around.

Spotify opened for anyone in the UK in Febuary 2009, releasing juices of epic to everyone’s computer.

Prooo Gamin’!
Of course, the biggest news of all is the release of Modern Warfare 2, seeling an amazing 4.7 million in the first day. Also, another lovely little stat is that it gathered 8 million people online in the first 5 days, compparing that to the real armies of the world, that’s the biggest army in the world, even more surprising is that it’s more than the others in the top 5 armies combined, that’s a lot of virtual killing. Expect this to be game of the year.

The only real hardware release was the DSi, nothing special the lack of a GBA slot makes my weep a little.

E3 was awesome! Read our earlier post about it. (Here)

So yeah, a pretty good year all in all, here’s to the next one! Hoorah!

- Chris