Showing posts with label new year resolutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new year resolutions. Show all posts

Friday, January 09, 2009

Wag the blog

Since I stopped reading newspapers I have replaced much of my procrastination reading Polly Toynbee's and Janet Daley's opinions on whatever with reading some of the following sci-tech/economics/SF blogs. They are no more or less well-informed than professional newspaper columnists but considerably more amusing:



I'm pretty sure that doing this goes against the spirit of my desire to read more actual books rather than irrelevant nonsense.

{No offense is implied to any of the above: I'm just saying at this stage in my life it would probably be better to focus on the profound and important rather than the trivial and up-to-the-minute}

*Sigh* --- I should really just avoid reading blogs altogether. It isn't educational, and doesn't improve my deep knowledge about anything.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

New Year Resolutions

Why? Because it's been nearly six months and I've finally formulated the perfect resolutions. Here they are:

  1. Legally purchase every single track of music I have on my PC.
  2. Improve my German and French to the extent that I can translate the main, front-page article of both Die Welt and Le Monde into English without having to look up any words.
  3. Read Sam's Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days.
  4. Read one fictional classic, and one non-fiction classic. At the moment I'm thinking War and Peace and The Wealth of Nations.
  5. Quit my job.
  6. Start higher education again.
Mmm. This is not actually as interesting as it seemed in my head.

As compensation, here is the picture of the Firefox girl:


For your delectation or sneering