2009 the year ahead
Jan
Happy New Year everyone - I hope that the next 12 months lead you even closer to whatever it is that you want.
For me, it will be a continuation of a simplification process.
As we no longer use credit cards at all, we’ve pretty much gone to a cash-and-carry lifestyle (that’s helped out a bunch - impulse purchases aren’t really all that satisfying anyhow).
Gadgets, gadgets, gadgets - somehow (as if I don’t know how ;^) over the last few years I’ve ended up with several digital cameras, about 5 mp3 players, 2 laptop computers and 4 desktop machines - I’m still on the quest to find a single machine and OS which I can use on a daily basis.
As many of you already know, my desk contains 3 machines - a Windows XP machine, a MacBook Pro and another machine running some flavor of Linux (currently, Kubuntu 8.10). I have yet to find a single platform which allows me to do everything that I need - they all get “close” but there are still things missing from one platform to the next. I’ll continue the search…
MP3 players -of all of them (iRiver, Creative Zen Xtra 30GB, 8GB iPod Touch, iPod 30GB video) I prefer the Zen Xtra - I’m not really sure why, it has the largest physical size - perhaps it it reminiscent of my first Game Boy device (which I played for-evah!). For the rest of them, well - I added all of my CD’s to the Zune yesterday - but today I find myself copying that music library over to the Zen - I’ll need to get rid of the others (wife and kids first, sorry! ;^)
Electricity - we’ve been using less and have also been replacing each light bulb in the house with the twistie compact fluorescents. Our electric bill was $44 less in December than it was in November and we used almost 500kW less power. Our goal would be to use less than 8kW on a daily basis. Part of our reduction was to elimate our use of a second freezer which we kept in the garage.
MobaTalk - Dozens of iterations past, I have the system framed in and now it’s a matter of completing the coding and getting it released. Ever forward!
How’s your 2009 starting out so far? There are only 350 days left until 2010 - get crackin’! ;^)
About one week ago, when I was thinking about social media and what it might one day become, the word Destiny popped into my head. I scurried on over to GoDaddy.com to check on available domain names using Destiny as part of the word. Behold, SocialDestiny.com was (and still is) available.




