New Goals

February 26, 2009

New Goals

Last year I started this by stating I wanted to write a system, put it up online and create a startup around it. Well, 2 out of 3 isn’t bad. I’d still like to create a product business, but I’m fairly happy I got Queuesaurus up and running. I partially attribute this result to publishing the goal So I thought I’d write a new list.

Achievable goals (I hope to manage most of these):

Improve Ruby skills to general professional standard (at present I know it just well enough to do what I want), particularly:
- Gemify BBC weather component and put it on github
- Continue working on "Queuesaurus ":http://www.queuesaurus.com issue list (now kept on queuesaurus – viva dogfooding!)
- Start next web project
Learn Scala to point of being able to rewrite one of my old abandoned libraries in it
Learn Blender to point of being able to recreate simple ancient historical architectural scenes (no need for animation or people)
Decrease net ownership of physical goods
Blog at an average rate of at least 4 times a month
Run 5km in 25 minutes

Stretch goals (I’m unlikely to manage any of these without significantly more spare time):

Get the weather app to a standard where I would be happy to open source it (no one would use it, but it could show what I can do)
learn Blender and gaming libraries enough to create simplistic graphical MMOs
Restart abandoned libraries (graph data type, yafal, music library analyser)
Play poker profitably
Make enough money from non-consulting activities to cover costs