Anyway, let's start with the obvious: Happy New Year to all my readers. There aren't many of you out there, I know, but it's not what is important.
So, what are my plans for this blog for this new year? I'm actually not so sure yet. I still have plans of keeping a personal (this) and a technical blog separate. But maybe I'll finally work on my homepage and migrate both blogs there. It's been on my plans for the last year, but didn't get even close to doing anything about it. I think most of it is because I want too many things on that homepage. Things like:
- Research interest/links to my papers: not that hard as I have stopped writing papers some time ago
- Technical interest/links to my project designs/alpha implementations: this is a little trickier, because I'm not sure how many of my projects I actually really have a consumable design or implementation. But that's where my other blog would be linked
- Aggregation of my pictures: that right now are mostly on SmugMug
- This blog
- A twitter-like feed of interesting links: It's what I'm trying to accomplish with the FriendFeed side bar, but the current way I find hard to really navigate
Anyway, I also know that a good part of this year is going to be devoted to the new house. The list of things that might need some work is getting long. I'm planning on not starting on anything until I have enough experience with the house and weed out things I want changed not because they are unusable, but because I'm used to something different from my previous houses/apartments. But I'm sure that there will still be a lot of things to do. And right now my goal should be finishing setting up my office, which right now is a sea of boxes with a small island of my chair and a small part of my desk, where I'm sitting and writing this post. It's actually quite impressive how many books and magazines I've collected in the last 8 years. I came to the US with pretty much no books. But now I have a Kindle and the speed of my book collection growth might slow down a little. Hopefully.
Alright, time to start the work today. Happy new year again and wishes to a wonderful year, full of accomplishments, to everybody.
2 comments:
Happy new year, my friend!
Well, I am just glad 2008 ended. It was a really, really bad year for me, but now it's past.
As for your projects, I have two suggestions:
1) For a feeder: take a look at Plurk. It looks a lot like Twitter, but is more... pleasant. If you get interested, take a look at my profile (http://www.plurk.com/rodtatekawa)
2) For a real project: I'm currently following Pollux, a friend of mine project mostly based on Ruby, but with a lot a other interesting things (OK, there will be a lot of interesting things someday). The main point of me suggesting this is the wiki-like structure of Assembla, something I find to be pleasant (http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/aLBwuc0oir3yk2ab7jnrAJ).
And if you got some time, please pay a visit to my blog (http://timeforv.blogspot.com) and to my friend's blog (http://locjonitworld.blogspot.com/). He is a pretty good Java developer with lots of international experience, if you ever need one. ;)
Cheers!
Happy new year V, X, whatever... ;-)
Thanks for dropping by and giving me some interesting pointers. I've looked into Plurk before and, although I did think it's timeline approach is pretty neat, it's still not exactly what I'm looking for. I'm looking for a better way of aggregating and navigating different types of data in a way that people can actually follow my thoughts and ideas without being confused by the noise of life. Something like: I don't care about technical stuff, just my views on society and you'll have a feed on those things.
I'll keep Assembla in mind eventually when I want to make my projects real. I hope I'll have time this year for that, but I'm afraid the new house might be a huge time drain. We'll see.
Blogs added to my feed reader. Thanks for the links!
Anyway, happy new year to you too and I'll see you around.
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