New Year's Resolutions are passé

Oh yes, it's another new year around the corner. People are trying to turn over a new leaf for the new year and make themselves better. I even tried it a couple of years ago... but New Year's Resolutions are passé, and resolving to do something you're not truly committed to is just a recipe for disaster and disappointment.

So I have some ideas, things I want to do in 2013. They may happen, they may not, but this is what I look forward to in the coming year...

1. Efficiency - making better use of limited time and money

Money's tight, time's tight, this is a no brainer. Trying to relax in productive ways and be productive in ways which aren't overly tiring.

2. Creativity - making new things

In 2012 I returned to performance poetry after a gap of nearly 4 years, and I've also started storytelling again. I'll also be making some new things with Python (as part of my PhD) and probably with Arduino. Oh, and there's other things that I want to get going, like rye bread, drawing and maybe even Linux on a Psion 5mx...

3. Exploration - trying new things

Some of this is above, but there will be explorations of the possible in one way or another...

Things to do in 2013...

Play: Bringing the experience of Make-Pla(y)ce to other things, in collaboration with Playful Leeds
Mapping: Trying to get an Open Source Geospatial group going as the first local initiative of OSGeo:UK
Writing: from the PhD to World Streets, Fictions of Every Kind and The Culture Vulture: if things go to plan there should be a lot more writing by me around the place... I may even write some new poetry...

So, have a Happy New Year, and let's see where it takes us...