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05 knocking on 06 Sunday morning, 1 January 2006

Another year down sees me half way through my degree *phew*, engaged for 18 months *pheew*, and still free-lancing. This year wasn’t quite as fast as the last, but still not bad. To summarise.

• Stayed engaged to my beautiful fiancé for another year.
• Switched to Mac.
• Went to the top of the Golden Gate bridge.
• Started free-lancing full time.
• Picked up some command line including a few things like ssh, mysql, crontab and lighttpd.
• Ruby on Rails... well, i’m getting there!
• Got into DOM scripting.

So what are my challenges to myself for the new year? I’ve got a few.

• Do the McCheyne Bible reading plan so I read the Old Testament once and the New Testament (and Psalms) twice over the year.
  Maybe this configurable RSS feed will help.
• See a few places in Eastern Europe. So far Budapest is on my list.
• Launch my own web app (more on this later).
• Absorb myself in the ‘getting things done’ method of organisation.
• Learn the Appassionata Sonata by memory
• Not so much resolutions but this coming year i’d like to get into: Ruby on Rails, ActionScript 3.0 and some more software architecture.
• Get second or first grades on my three Open University courses (Software Engineering, Relational Databases and Putting Computer Systems to Work, which sounds like some windows scripting course *shudders*)

Not bad for someone that doesn’t usually make resolutions. I hope your New Year is a successful one for you also, whatever you endeavour.

 

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