1. 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
2. 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.
3. Read at least 5 books (see above)
4. Go to at least 5 EU counties
5. 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
6. Save for my future
7. Start an open source project with a friend
8. Eat less junk and learn to enjoy good food
9. Get in shape
10. Readdress my work/life balance.

*UPDATED*

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

1. Get loyalty cards and uses vouchers
2. Get healthy
3. Listen to music
4. Get better sleep
5. Blog

1. Complain less and remain positive Success, but could do better.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Visit all of my friends at university
6. Go on Holiday
   Good times, but I wish I had more holidays and less work.
7. 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.
8. 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?
9. Go swimming once a week
   FAIL No time to swim, fun to be had
10. Drink less caffeine
    FAIL This was never going to happen, I would be inhuman without caffeine in me
11. 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

1. Complain less and remain positive
   I think it is a very British thing to do to complain and be negative, but I think if you live your life complaining all the time, your just looking for bad things in life. Speak positive and you will be happy, at least that is the idea.
2. Don’t hold Grudge
   Much like the first resolutions, it is a matter of remain positive and happy. Holding onto angry is not good for your soul.
3. Get up earlier in the morning and have breakfast
4. Go to Orange Wednesday every week
5. Visit all of my friends at university
6. Go on Holiday
7. Start the process of learning to drive
8. Don’t buy anymore games until I complete all the games I have
9. Go swimming once a week
10. Drink less caffeine
11. Redesign all of the sites that I run.

What are your new years resolutions? What would add to this list?

1. Past my third year of University
   This is quite easily the hardest thing have ever done. It took every part of me, every piece of fire in me to complete that degree. It was one of the best days of my life when I found my result.
2. Get a full time job
   As I have previously mention on this blog, I managed to get a job with MW kellogg. But I only ended up working there for a week, when I got another job with a web design company, called Xanda. It is my dream job and I love it.
3. Try to swear less.
   This is something that I didn’t achieve, be a mixture of stressful times or living in the port city of Portsmouth. But F*** it
4. Find a place for important object, such as keys and wallet.
   After moving home, I managed this. I still loose things, but isn’t that just life.
5. Make sure my phone is always charged and on me
   I did manage this one to, it was a matter of keeping a charger in the living room and bedroom, so I can charge my phone anywhere I am. I also got a AirCurve dock for my desk at work, which will charge my iPhone.
6. Write a free application, either online or for your computer or phone that will aid the general public
   I have written a plugin for jQuery to get posts from Twitter, but I am yet to test it correctly and publish it on my portfolio. This will be completed within the next month. I am currently in the process of writing a scripts section of the portfolio, where I will open source lots of stuff I have written to date.
7. Go on holiday
   This one was a lack of money from not having a job. I have had weekends away, going to Portsmouth for some reasons, but not a real holiday. It is on this year’s list.
8. Closely monitor the amount of time that I spend on computers
   As I now work on computers everyday, I spend even more time in front of computers than ever. I do notice that I am doing it and do try and get away from my computer for at least 5 minutes in every hour. I also check facebook on my phone, spending less time in front of a big screen. Is that better?
9. Use my time more efficiently
   This is something that I do feel an have achieved by completing all of the above and manage to get out to socialize. If anything, I think that I need to slow down and chill out more.
10. Try and go out for a date-night once every two weeks.
    If you know me personally, you will understand why I do not want to dwell on this one. I will admit that I didn’t achieve this, as I was busy with number 1. Something I regret deeply.
11. Make sure the people around me know how important they are to me!

For the most part I am extremely happy with the year. I got more done in one year, than I thought I ever could. The things I didn’t manage to do was only stopped by the fact I had to focus on getting a my degree/job. Maybe I can work on these in the new year, I know that at least one of these resolutions will make it into this years list.

1. Past my third year of University
2. Get a full time job.
3. Try to swear less.
4. Find a place for important object, such as keys and wallet.
5. Make sure my phone is always charged and on me
6. Write a free application, either online or for your computer or phone that will aid the general public
7. Go on holiday
8. Closely monitor the amount of time that I spend on computers
9. Use my time more efficiently
10. Try and go out for a date-night once every two weeks.
11. Make sure the people around me know how important they are to me!

For those reading this, what are your resolutions? What is missing from my list?

1. Get an up to date Calendar, putting all coursework dates, birthdays and everything else.
   This really has been a massive success and I couldn’t been happier with how it turned out. It really was interesting to look at different was to do this. In the end I started using google calender, that can sync with both Outlook and iCal. This wasn’t very good as it was only one way, you couldn’t write to the online from these programmes. But then google introducted Caldev. This allows you to sync both ways, which is perfect. The final piece of the puzzle getting an Ipod Touch, which syncs on up iCal, meaning that I had on calender in my pocket.
2. Do more cooking
   Now that I finally have a house that I spend anytime in, this year and the cost of living going up, I had to learn how to cook. I am still not have good, but at least I am not eating out every other day. I will improve on this one.
3. See friends from home more
   It depends who you ask about this one, I have stayed close to some friends and lost touch with others. It is can be hard to keep in touch. I know that many of my friends who didn’t hear from me in a while, check this blog. Those of my friends who are reading this, your legends!
4. Stay in contact with my family
   If you ask my mother, she will say that day to day, she doesn’t know if I am alive when I am at university. I find it hard to focus on things for off, but I will try harder on this one.
   
5. Eat less sweets, crisps and chocolates
   I have got have done extremely well on this one. I simply got sick of eating all that rubbish all the time. Having said this I do currently have a draw full of crisps in my room, this is only because it is cheaper to buy 24 packs. This is my story and I am sticking to it!
6. Pass my second year of University
   This was extremely hard but I did do it with a 2-1. There are some example of some of the work I have done over the year on the web, the doctor surgery,  Java servlets and java network tool.
7. Find time to find new music
   I have pretty good at this one. I think that I should have done the resolution to go to gig and find a place for music in my life. I went to lots of gigs this year, including the future heads and the 46664 Nelson Mandela gig where I got to see Will Smith play live. The best way of finding new music was creating an account on Last FM, which installs a plugin on your music player and counts the number of time you play songs and who by. It also advices you bands you may like comparing it to music collection. You can also see what your friends are listening to. Through this I found a band called WolfMother, which I am still listening to. The best bit if that you can even stream full songs on the site or install the Ipod Touch/Iphone App.
8. Be earlier with getting form, coursework and other important things in.
   Rubbish at this, physically can not do it.
9. Get a summer job.
   I managed this, I did some temp work, which turned out to be pretty fun time. Having some money for a change was really nice too!
10. Have weekend away with Bex Terry
    Now I must admit this is one of the biggest regret of the year that I didn’t have an money to go away with my lady friend this year. We did do a day trip to the isle of white and I did spend many weeks with her over the summer, but it is not the same. I will have to take her somewhere in the new year.

All in all, I think I did extremely well this year, I set myself reachable targets and they came off extremely well. I could always do better but that is always the case. I thought it might be interesting to look back on 2007 Resoltions but I need to write next years.

1. Get an up to date Calendar, putting all coursework dates, birthdays and everything else.
   I am thinking about using Google Calendar and Ical.
2. Do more cooking
   This means that I should stay away from things that involve using Microwaves. When I do cook things, I must not over cook things. By cooking more myself I should be of better health.
3. See friends from home more
   Get people at uni and get them to come to Portsmouth.
4. Stay in contact with my family
5. Eat less sweets, crisps and chocolates
6. Pass my second year of University
7. Find time to find new music
8. Be earlier with getting form, coursework and other important things in.
9. Get a summer job.
10. Have weekend away with Bex Terry

I think unlike last year, I set some real goals. Now I think I can set to doing them!

Right so, lets go through the list and see how well I did!

1. I did indeed complete Computingcorner and if I say so myself, it is pretty good looking site. I haven’t really had a chance to write anything on it since I created it, which really is bad of me, but I am sure that at some point I will get back to it. I have lots of scripts and bits that I have created to upload but I simply haven’t had a chance.
2. As I have discussed I am a massive fan of Facebook. I also bought my parents a new web cam. I have also set my xbox to auto sign me on Windows live messenger when I turn it on. This way I can talk to friends and play games at the same time.
3. I did indeed pass my first year of uni and second year is going well.
4. Well I found out that I don’t really like the physically act of reading, but I do like a good book. I wrote a post about a website called Librivox. It is free audiobooks of out of copyright books. There are some real classics on there and I have found some wonderful books on there. My personally loved The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
5. This didn’t happened simply because I am extremely lazy.
6. I don’t have the money to learn to drive, so that didn’t happen either.
7. I have been extremely daring, I now have a wonderful girlfriend and traveled all around England.
8. Meet lots of new people and meet some wonderful people. I completely changed the people I was hanging around with from last year.
9. Well I have traveled and been places to see people at uni so this kind of happened.
10. I am not living in halls anymore so I really had to learn how to cook. I need to learn more through.
11. This didn’t happen simply because I lost my saved game and couldn’t be bothered to start the game again. I did however, complete Halo 3, Lego Star Wars 2 and a few other games.
12. I have been sleeping the best in my life, however I don’t get much sleep in exams and coursework time.
13. I don’t really eat much chocolate or sweets anymore. I am bad about getting popcorn when I go to the movies through.
14. Well now that I have more guests and people coming out of my room, I have to keep it clean. I could do better about being clean more in general. One to work on.
15. Finally, I have been playing around with my hair all year, I was really short for a while then I went long. I am still playing with it. Please liked the long hair, but I personally hated it.

I think I did really well, there were simply some things that I couldn’t be done because of the life style I lead but for the most part I did wonderfully. I did some much with my year, I am shocked that it all only happened in 365 days. I will need another New years resolutions for this year soon.