Cristiano on Tech/Life

After reading Melinda’s and Ian’s New Year’s resolutions on their blogs, I decided that it might be interesting for me to document my resolutions too. If not for your interest, at least for my personal motivation.

• Get my MSc Degree: I should have gotten my degree by now, but somehow London has kept me to busy last year.
• Work on my health: I haven’t gained weight in the last year, but this doesn’t mean I feel better. I will have to start eating healthier, although I don’t think that’s the main problem, which actually is: sport. I really need to get my ass moving and away from my laptop. I bought some running shoes and had my first 1.5km run today. Did it in 9 minutes and was completely dead after it. Let’s see if I can keep this up and do this twice a week, and so slowly increase the distance to maybe 3km and beyond.
• Organize events: Since arriving in London almost a year ago (yes, it’s almost a year now) I have been going to Barcamps, GeekDinners, GirlGeekDinners, all organized by great people with too much of a philanthropic nature. So this year I want to go and help people organize events, starting with helping Ian with the GeekDinners, and maybe even eventually help/organize a Barcamp-like-event.
• Read more books: I love reading books, but somehow I never get to doing it. I am not a very fast reader (especially not in comparison to Melinda), but recently I discovered Audiobooks on the iPhone. Especially the option to speedup the audio s simply brilliant. On my list to read for now are Freakonomics, Fooled by Randomness, Wheel of Time – Part 6 to 12, I am Legend, and many more.
• Wake up earlier and more regularly: This goes partly together with my plan to sport, but it is also simply more handy to wake up at regular times. Yesterday I was up until 4am, which meant I didn’t really wake up before 12pm.