Thinking about 2008
When I started this blog six months ago talking about chips, Birmingham and recently purchased books, I was really excited about everything I was going to post about. In May I had so many ideas for blog posts I filled a month and a half of my Google calendar with them, if I posted one every day. But like so many blogs, it’s gone quiet, and I could have done with some tumbleweed.
The year has flown by, and sitting here in that week between Christmas and New Years I’ve been thinking about 2008 and some new years resolutions. Here’s a few, and I’ll come back in a years time and see how I’m doing.
- Learn more about Photoshop. I really like Photoshop and use it almost every day. However, I know there’s so much I’ve not yet discovered. Two sites I plan to spend more time on are Radiant Vista and PSDTuts. The level of quality and professionalism in the video tutorials at Radiant Vista is phenomenal, and PSDTuts has been a great site for experimenting with Photoshop in downtime.
- Audit everything. I’m not Robert Scoble, and sure don’t need to be subscribed to as many feeds as he is. Last night I cleaned out my GMail inbox so I’m now down to 1 unread email (next on the list is starred and drafts). I probably don’t need three operating systems on the laptop (especially as I use XP and Ubuntu for only 2-3% of the time). Do I need so many accounts all over the place? Can I bring my to-do lists (in Tadalist) and planning (in GoPlan) and contact management (in Outlook) together, online? I haven’t updated Twitter in 123 days… do I need to use it? Does it need to be on the side of this blog?
- Do more learning. I’d really like to get into Ruby on Rails, and perhaps build a tiny project with it. It’d be nice to find time to read more of the paper, watch more decent programmes on Television and listen to more World Service and NPR.
A less serious resolution is to finally build a HTPC. Oh, and stop procrastinating over a portable music player. (That’s actually a good post for tomorrow). I’ve been playing with 43 Things (a site where you can list goals, have a public profile and set yourself reminders via email). Time to start adding to that list…
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I also struggled to find something that would let me get to-dos, planning and contact management together until I found this service http://www.wrike.com. I started with putting in to-dos and building plans, then put in all the info on my contacts as tasks. The service is very flexible and it lets you group your data in many ways.
Comment by Bobby Knight — January 23, 2008 @ 10:44 am