Tue, 01 Jan 2008
Welcome to the new year
What went well in 2007
- I have a job working to advance a cause I believe in.
- I have a fairly nice server being treated to love and pampering.
- I'm living in a nice slice of a house with an awesome roommate.
- I've settled on some asheesh.org tech that I seem to be interested in actually using.
- Since taking over the tech for Students for Free Culture, I've been fairly responsible and reliable. (Certainly when compared to our previous experiences.)
- I (still) have good friends.
- I seem to have adequate social skills.
- I've been consistently uploading packages (through a sponsor) to the Debian archive, and I now have Debian Maintainer status.
What went poorly
- I still am not using a phone running only Free Software for everyday use.
- The asheesh.org tech is quite barebones - no comments, no photos, no artificially-creative automatic free-association.
- I'm still only "nearly" using full-text search on IMAP.
- I lost freaking gobs of data in a massive disk crash.
- I still don't have quick automatic easy access to all the songs I own.
- My computers still don't do everything I want them to in the blink of an eye without me even asking, and all my computers aren't connected to each other with wireless gigabit links.
- I'm still afraid of voicemail and of calling some people.
- My bedroom has been a disaster zone.
What I didn't guess would happen
- Gaurav seems to be using Ubuntu and enjoying Compiz Fusion.
- Apple launched DRM-free music on their iTunes store.
- I ran into #joiitoers at least twice by accident.
- I went to Burning Man, and learned that I think I prefer the Mystery Hunt.
- I sat on a terrace in Croatia and drank Absynthe (I know, the boring legal-in-Germany kind).
- I went to Tokyo to present about the Semantic Web (and Neurocommons) to a room full of people twice my age. While in town, I struck up a conversation in French with some Swiss dudes.
- I looked at myself in a mirror on two separate occasions, and realized that getting a haircut looked really good, and also that torn sneakers look like someone sticking his tongue out.
I wonder what 2008 will be like.
