Happy New Year! In 2009 & 2010 I....

[chase]

In 2009 I...

• Became a Redhat certified Instructor and Examiner
• Refinanced my house
• Lost 80 lbs (down to 225lbs now but I'm 6'7" so it's not that far from what I should be)
• Spent a lot of time training to run my first half-marathon. I've been playing with running gadgets and such this year.
• Got my first stress fracture in a foot two weeks ago.
• Dropped out of my first half-marathon (see above) Technically the race is in Jan but my doctor told me it wasn't happening in Dec. I did run a 10k race at least.
• Got two Westie puppies with my girlfriend.
• Built my first Hackintosh machine. (Using a netbook for now but if I like it I'll probably buy a MacBook Pro in 2010)
• Changed servers for OSDev.
• Wrote a Java EE course for Sun (and helped on some of the upcoming certs)

In 2010 I...

• Hope to finish a half-marathon or even a full.
• Might learn Objective-C
• Want to finish one of my side projects to re-write an old BBS game
• Will Improve OSDev.org
• Really want to house train our puppies
• Will likely take up some extra hobby that my girlfriend and I can do together. Maybe painting.
• Want to learn Spanish. I've already started but spoken languages are hard, if only I could learn them as fast as computer languages.

[JackScott]

Damn you Facebook, I went to look for the "Like" button.

In 2009 I:

• Went on my my first intercontinental holiday in order to meet a girl I met on the Internet.
• Had the worst night of my life in a hotel near Heathrow Airport.
• Almost moved to Berlin.
• Failed 2/8 of my University subjects.
• Dated a girl on the other side of the continent.
• Got CT scans done for a brain tumour.
• Haven't coded a single line except for University. Even then, as few as possible.

In 2010 I:

• Will finish/continue learning German.
• Will date a girl who lives within 500km of me.
• Hope to restart work on my operating system.
• Will get polyphasic sleeping working. Somehow.
• Won't fail anything.

[earlz]

Damn you Facebook, I went to look for the "Like" button.

In 2009 I:

• Went on my my first intercontinental holiday in order to meet a girl I met on the Internet.
• Had the worst night of my life in a hotel near Heathrow Airport.
• Almost moved to Berlin.
• Failed 2/8 of my University subjects.
• Dated a girl on the other side of the continent.
• Got CT scans done for a brain tumour.
• Haven't coded a single line except for University. Even then, as few as possible.

In 2010 I:

• Will finish/continue learning German.
• Will date a girl who lives within 500km of me.
• Hope to restart work on my operating system.
• Will get polyphasic sleeping working. Somehow.
• Won't fail anything.

I've heard polyphasic sleep is not as cool as it's cracked up to be... (even one of the major advocates of it had to stop doing it as a lifestyle eventually)

In 2009 I...

• Graduated high school
• Started college
• Got 8 extra computers
• Got back together with my first girlfriend
• Wrote a working scripting engine mostly single-handed (at work)

In 2010 I...

• Will move out to my own house! (hopefully this month or the next)
• Will try even harder to not just drop out of college..(last semester I was taught nothing but flow charting.. ugh!)
• Hopes to try out some other hobbies than programming/anything to do with computing.
• Will exercise more...
• Will try once again to learn dvorak
• Will learn a pure functional language
• Will try to meet more people and be more "social" with people I do know

[Thomas]

Hi,
2009
Highs

• Became a MCPD and MCTS
• Wrote some small games
• Rewrote my real mode os
• Taught basic computer science to poor children
• Got a very good rating from my manager and he told that I am the most technically sound person in the team{ good bonus }
• Automated most of the test cases of previous release of my project almost by myself
• Presented Tech hour sessions on Game Development and Test Automation with Powershell
• Wonderful Christmas with my family and I could buy my little sister everything she wanted
• Learned a lot about myself

Lows

• Became friendly with a girl first time in my entire life,only to find the she does not belong to me,heart broken
• I was not enjoying my work although I did work very hard
• My manager did not allow me to shift to a better team,learned about politics this way
• Other people took credit for the work I did,but learned people skills anyway

2010
Plans

• Write exams and will quit my job if get a good university
• Write more certifications
• Learn more
• Pray more
• Try hard to get back to my older happier self (no more girls !)

--Thomas

[os64dev]

In 2009:
- I start building an extension to my house
- Had almost no time for OS development
- Improved the performance of the staging server from work by a factor 40 (Complete redesign)
- Managed to gain 15 Kg of weight

In 2010:
- Launch my COBOS website (self hosting on a HP thin client)
- Hope to get my BMI back to between 22.5 and 25
- Be more active again in OSdev.org
- Finish my extension to our house (almost done only the roof)

Rene

[dak91]

in 2009 I:
- started my first os project
- started a scene manager for opengl
- learned to use gentoo linux

in 2010 I:
- should relase spiderpig 0.2
- should get the high school graduation
- should will start university
- would be happy
- will stop to smoke

[Brynet-Inc]

I did nothing in 2009, I plan on doing nothing in 2010.

[zity]

In 2009 I:
- Graduated college
- Started at the university
- Moved in with my ex-girlfiend
- .. and moved back home again
- Went to Rome and London
- Started developing a new 64-bit operating system

In 2010 I:
- Move into my new apartment
- Hopefully pass most of my university subjects
- Would like to spend more time with my friends
- Would like to travel somewhere (unlikely to happen after spending money on my new apartment, though)
- Hope to reach a state were my OS is sort of useable

[eddyb]

I did nothing in 2009, I plan on doing nothing in 2010.

I agree with that . My IM status: "2010. another year. same life".