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Last years Resoltions revisted 2011

Jonathan Harris — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:56:05 +0000

~~Rebrand myself~~
- ~~Dress smarter~~
- ~~Look neater~~
- Give my websites and twitter a new look and feel.
I would count this as a success, I do dress smarter and look tidier. I have not rebranded my sites, more to come on this one.
~~Devote more time to being a geek~~
- ~~Watching more films~~
- ~~Reading more comics~~
- ~~Playing games~~
Massive sucess, however, I ended up buying more games, book and dvds than I could watch with my little spare time.
Treat myself better
- Eat less junk
- ~~Sleep more~~
I slept more but managed to put nearly a stone on in weight. Working on it this year.
Be more polite
Work in progress
~~To visit old friends from uni~~
Become a better designer
- ~~Invest time into reading about design~~
- ~~Take more risks with my own sites.~~
Even through you haven’t seen it yet, I have done a lot designing this year, redesigning spacedmonkey and my portofilio, I have yet to do anything with these designs yet, but soon.
~~Plan an international trip, preferable to san francisco or a road trip across europe.~~
Done, had a great time and came back with better friends.
Develope Jonathandavidharris into a web development website, with scripts, portfolio, blog and snippets. Be the next css-tricks
For a number reason, mostly time, this didn’t happen. The design was started and it grew until the point where it kind fell over. As I do not want to make anything of poor quality.
Document this year
I didn’t do this for a number of reasons, mostly time again, but another one is not haivng a good enough camera on my phone. I think this a the year of my life that I took the smallest amount of photos. It is something I am sad about and will fix with a better camera and going more interesting places.
~~Have more fun and laugh~~

New years resoltions for 2012

Jonathan Harris — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:57:21 +0000

It is that time of the year again where I publicly pledge my plans and hopes for 2012.Unlike many years, I am not putting things on there that are my life goals, such as be tidier, learn to drive and so on. These are on going and are on my to do list for all of my life.

Be a better communicator
This is one that oh EVERYONE in my life has asked for and I have listened and I am replying, finally.
- Use new forms of communication to stay in touch
- Answer messages quicker, even if it is just to say I got the message
- Use better diction
Finish things I have started
There are so many graphic novels, audiobooks and TV series I have started and never finished. There is new stuff coming in. I want to finish the backlog before starting ANYTHING new.
Read at least 5 books (see above)
Go to at least 5 EU counties
Buy less stuff and sort out what I do use
- Sort through my things, either though away, sell or give to friends things I don’t use
- No more clothes, gadgets or dvds
Save for my future
Start an open source project with a friend
Eat less junk and learn to enjoy good food
Get in shape
Readdress my work/life balance.

*UPDATED*

After 23 days, I decided to add some new ones to end of my list.

Get loyalty cards and uses vouchers
Get healthy
Listen to music
Get better sleep
Blog

Last years Resoltions revisted 2010

Jonathan Harris — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:22:57 +0000

It is the time of the year when I look back on the year that has gone by and see how well I did on my new years resoltions. It has been a long year, with lots of stuff that happened and looking back I am surpirised at myself that I got so much done. So here it goes.

~~Complain less and remain positive~~ Success, but could do better.
Don’t hold Grudge
FAIL There are some people that have really had me mad this year and I refused to give them a free pass. Will work on this one.
Get up earlier in the morning and have breakfast
FAIL In fact I thnk that I am worst about getting up in the morning. Breakfast thing I did for a while but I think I just prefer the time to sleep.
~~Go to Orange Wednesday every week~~
I did manage this one but it was at a cost, there were simply no good movies that I remember seeing this year. I was very disappointed by everything.
~~Visit all of my friends at university~~
~~Go on Holiday~~
Good times, but I wish I had more holidays and less work.
Start the process of learning to drive
FAIL Simply don’t see the point, I get the train everywhere and it is not a problem in my time.
~~Don’t buy anymore games until I complete all the games I have~~
I managed this but not playing any games at al. Even let my xbox live membership end. Simply don’t feel like I have the time to do this at the moment. I play a lot of games on iphone however. Maybe if I had a window phone 7 phone?
Go swimming once a week
FAIL No time to swim, fun to be had
Drink less caffeine
FAIL This was never going to happen, I would be inhuman without caffeine in me
~~Redesign all of the sites that I run.~~
Success, spacedmonkey and jonathandavidharris both got a lick of plant this year.

So I managed 6/11, which I think it pretty good

New years resolutions for 2011

Jonathan Harris — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:27:00 +0000

Rebrand myself
- Dress smarter
- Look neater
- Give my websites and twitter a new look and feel.
Devote more time to being a geek
- Watching more films
- Reading more comics
- Playing games
Treat myself bette
- Eat less junk
- Sleep more
Be more polite
To visit old friends from uni
Become a better designer
- Invest time into reading about design
- Take more risks with my own sites.
Plan an international trip, preferable to san francisco or a road trip across europe.
Develope Jonathandavidharris into a web development website, with scripts, portfolio, blog and snippets. Be the next css-tricks
Document this year
- Taking lots of photos
- Write a journal
Have more fun and laugh

Space pyramid in less than a minute

Jonathan Harris — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:34:14 +0000

As a massive fan of stargate, I love this little video

Why you shouldn’t buy a mac

Jonathan Harris — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:18:38 +0000

Even after reading this on the next web, I still want a mac. Both the hardware and software work so seamlessly with each other, I can ever imagine using anything else for my personal computer. I am not a fanboy though!

What do you think, post comments below!

Photoshop Fail: newu

Jonathan Harris — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:45:13 +0000

I have no idea how this got printed on the cover of millions of box, the neck is a complete joke, even a fool could see this was photoshoped.

Photoshop Fail series

Jonathan Harris — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:35:10 +0000

A new feature that I am going to add to the site is called Photoshop fails. This feature has been inspired by the success of blogs photoshop disasters and Fail Blog. As a web designer, I look work with Photoshop everyday and when I see promotional materials with obviously mistakes, it drives me up the wall. So here is a place to highlight this bad design and laugh at it’s rubbishness. If you see any bad design, please feel free to post a link in the comments. Otherwise, enjoy

Clever birds

Jonathan Harris — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:18:10 +0000

We think we are the smartest beings on the face of the earth, but sometimes I wonder …..

Star Wars Subway Car

Jonathan Harris — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:24:58 +0000

Quote from site

For our latest mission, we staged a reenactment of the first Princess Leia / Darth Vader scene from Star Wars on a New York City subway car. The white walls and sliding doors on the train reminded us of the rebel ship from the movie, and we thought it would be fun to see how people would react to a surprise appearance by the iconic characters. We spread out the actors along the train line, staging it so they would enter the right car at the right time. Enjoy the video first and then go behind-the-scenes with the photos and report below.

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