Geek resolutions

As it’s new year and my motivation is at an all time low, I think a list of TODOs (or new years resultions) is needed. Some of those listed are techy and some are not but all of them are aimed at improving my life.

I will

  • Finish the new design of this site - as you can see, it’s still a work in progress
  • Comment my code
  • Finish projects I have started
  • Document my code properly
  • Use UML - even if it’s just in my head
  • Move to Ubuntu on my home machine
  • Caption all my photos - all 8500 of them
  • Read all the books I bought
  • Read non-techy books too
  • Cook more
  • Eat less
  • Eat healthier
  • Find some way of feeling healthier that I can actually stick to (Gym is a bit too much commitment)
  • Start to budget my outgoings properly
  • Stop calling my dog “the rodent”
  • Learn that Friday does not have to equal “getpissedday”
  • Stop watching soap operas - comedy series like King of Queens and Scrubs will remain on my Sky+ planner though
  • Contribute to an open source project
  • Help fellow developers more
  • Always keep in mind that I know only a fraction of what I think I know
  • Be in a good mood
  • Write another useful Firefox extension that uses a custom XPCOM component
  • Use Patterns in code more
  • Stop driving like an idiot just so I can get home quicker
  • Go to Ireland to see my friends and family more
  • Go to the summer house in Norway
  • Save money
  • And finally - keep this blog up to date

There’s quite a few there so I think it’s more of a two year plan. I have been working on an eight year plan with Gill too, but it’s still a bit up in the air but very exciting - as along as all goes well -

I will also (I thought of some more)

  • Move to IMAP instead of POP email
  • Backup more
  • Learn how to use SVN properly
  • Go to LinuxWorld in London (as long as it’s not on Gill’s birthday like last year)
  • Get a whiteboard at home
  • ……..I’ll add some more as I think of them
This entry was written by philroche and posted on January 4, 2007 at 12:04 pm and filed under General, Techie, v70, c#, holidays, Linux, Ubuntu, beer, projects, software, open source. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

5 Comments

  1. Barry Wharton
    Posted January 4, 2007 at 1:57 pm | Permalink

    Ha ha m8 just a few new year resolutions then! ;-)

    You need to sign up to star trek club too

  2. Gareth Evans
    Posted January 4, 2007 at 4:23 pm | Permalink

    lol @ Stop calling my dog “the rodent”

    Gareth

  3. philroche
    Posted January 4, 2007 at 4:41 pm | Permalink

    @Gareth - you should have said you’ve started the blog - Some good stuff in there.

  4. Matt Wilcox
    Posted January 4, 2007 at 5:23 pm | Permalink

    Nice one Phil, spotted the loss of graphics and a new font this morning. Some good stuff in that list. May make one myself *muses*

  5. Gareth Evans
    Posted January 10, 2007 at 8:56 pm | Permalink

    @Phil - h Phil by the way, Ive started a Blog lol….got some uni work and some other bits that ive been working on….im going to get some pics of my 40U Rack up soon too!

    Gaz

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