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Milestones

Today is a Milestone date - the start of a New Year. Happy New Year! This is also a milestone post, the 100th post to this weblog. I should have hit this particular milestone some time ago, but who ever has enough time?

I have never been a big believer in making New Year’s Resolutions. As I’ve gotten a little older, I’ve started to take more note of milestones than I used to. Milestones like your 30th birthday (nearly two years ago) will do that. So this year, I think I’ll try on a few resolutions for size, and see how things go.

Personal

1. Spend a little extra time with my kids. I don’t think I do too badly at this now, but why not improve anyway?
2. Have at least one weekend getaway with my wife… and no children. We’ve been planning this forever, and never seem to get it done.
3. Play more Chess (and hopefully improve).
4. Write some fiction.

Professional

1. Finish every last piece of the Client Reporting project.
2. Make the whole thing obsolete with a ground-up rewrite, using no VB (build directly in XML via Office 2003 native XML formats).

jclark.org

1. Add timestamps and notifications for comments.
2. New design. Something a bit less… understated.
3. Hit the 300 posts milestone.
4. Re-organize the categories. Use permanent redirects for moved posts.
5. Add a second, topic specific blog. Potential topics are astronomy, chess, or writing.

I think that’s it for now. If I think of anymore, I’ll come back and update the list.

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