2009 Resolutions

I can’t remember making much of a resolution at the beginning of 2008, nothing that’s trackable anyway. This year, I’ve made a couple of resolutions on both personal and professional levels.

Professional

1. Lean to use Illustrator to an intermediate level
2. Create a simple Flash-based website/webapp

Using the pen tool on Photoshop has always been a weakness for me, so in 2009 I plan to practise using the pen tool a lot more with Illustrator, creating vector graphics. And as I continue to embrace the power of JavaScript libraries, I think it’s only fair that I allow myself to dabble in Flash as well and see what it can do apart from creating animations and play video.

Personal

1. Get into a regular sleep routine
2. Exercise 3 times a week

2008 has been a rather ‘unhealthy’ year for me. Having moved out to live on my own, working at home has meant that I’m pretty much working at the oddest hours, and sleeping too. Adil gave me a nickname: ‘napster’ at one point for the number of times he’s heard about me taking long naps during the day even before he met me. The Lent attempt to drop the habit of laying in failed. I’ve also been less engaged with the dance rehearsals and lessons. Now with Virgin Active charging me £64.95 per month, exercising 3 times a week is only fair.

Side projects

There’re a couple of projects that I want to either round off some existing projects, or start on a couple that I’ve been having in my mind.

1. EnTrip mobile See Entrip.
2. Weight-gain tracking Although it’s not a resolution to gain weight, I believe a regular sleep and exercise routine will allow me to put on weight anyway. So, I spent a couple of hours last night puting together an application to track my progress. This should be rather interesting.
3. File transfer interface This is to allow myself to upload/download/share files that I wish in an unlimited way with public/private privileges.
4. Something that uses the Twitter API It’s possible that I might put this together with the file transfer interface, but it’s uncertain right now.
5. StillLive.NET rebrand A major rebrand and site-wide redesign is on the way…

How about everyone else? Any resolutions for the coming year?

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