101

by Tom Hall

1. Culture

1.1. Watch all TTC Art history DVDs

1.2. Visit Egypt

1.3. Museum visits

1.3.1. Revisit Louvre

1.3.2. Revisit Met Museum

1.3.3. Visit pergamon Museum

1.3.4. Give Carrie a British Museum tour

1.4. Go on a wine tasting course

1.5. Go to the theatre on average once per month

1.6. See a whole run at the theatre by the lake

1.7. See all world heritage sites in the UK

1.8. Memorise 10 poems

1.9. Read "An Ode Less Travelled", do the exercises (but not share them!)

1.10. Go to Melbourne Comedy Festival

1.11. Go to Edinburgh festival

2. Health

2.1. Teetotalitarianism for 3 months

2.2. Cheeseless for 3 months

2.3. Do a marathon

2.4. Do a triathlon

2.5. Lose 2 stone

2.6. Attend martial arts classes for 3 months

3. Wealth

3.1. Pay off all credit cards

3.2. Let loans run course and dont get any more

4. Work

4.1. Get CCEE

4.2. Get CCNP

4.3. Get MCITP - Enterprise Admin

4.4. Get VCDX

4.5. Say to a recruiter "I dont work <MonthName>" and turn down work

4.6. Create a Backblaze storage pod

4.7. Work only 100 days in a year

4.8. Move 10 people to FreeAgent

4.9. Investigate Visa situation for Australia

4.10. Investigate Visa situation for US

5. Learning

5.1. Complete Pimsleur Spanish

5.2. Learn to dance

5.3. Learn to play golf

5.4. Learn 10 magic tricks

5.5. Read "Winning Ways"

5.6. Learn to play bongos

6. Outdoors

6.1. Hike on average once a month

6.2. Do a UK LDP

6.3. Do a big hike in Europe

6.4. Attend NIM

6.5. Climb a continental highest mountain

6.6. Volunteer for the mountain bothys association

6.7. Via Feratta in Italy

6.8. Do another alpine 4000m peak

7. Literature

7.1. Write an artice for Plus new writers

7.2. Read all the VSIs

7.3. Read GEB

7.4. Write book reviews for each book I read

7.5. Reread all Dennett books

7.6. Read all PG Wodehouse

7.7. Release 303 books on bookcrossing.com

7.8. Read a short story for librivox

7.9. Proofread for Project Guttenburg

7.10. Send Dennett a letter

7.11. Send Dawkins a letter

7.12. Read Joyce

8. Meta Goals

8.1. Be 1/3 through in 2010

8.2. Have done 2/3 by day 666

8.3. Have a completion party

8.4. Set success criteria / progression metrics for each goal

8.5. Do 100 day updates

9. Personal

9.1. Blog on average once a week

9.2. Organise a big bash for my 30th

9.3. Read GTD

9.4. Spend 3 months in another country

9.5. Organise all my DVDs

10. Jolly

10.1. Swim with sharks

10.2. Paraglide

10.3. Skydive

10.4. Drive Offroad

10.5. Do a banger rally

10.6. Have a track day

10.7. Hire the whole of Salvos Salumeria for an evening

10.8. Bungee Jump

10.9. Safari

10.10. Vinyard tour

10.11. Visit 5 Michelin 3* restaurants

10.12. See Northern Lights

10.13. Visit porto

10.14. Take dad to an opera

10.15. Take Mum, Dad and Carrie to the Welsh Mountain Zoo

10.16. Do 1000 things

10.17. Visit Japan

11. Programming

11.1. Make a Dots and Boxes program

11.2. Read AI: A Modern Approach

11.3. Watch SICP, do exercises from book

11.4. Do on average 1 project Euler problem per week

11.5. Complete "Real World Haskell"

11.6. Learn to use Emacs

12. Crafty

12.1. Make Jam

12.2. Grow mushrooms

12.3. Paint a water colour

12.4. Make beer

12.5. Make wine

12.6. Cook a 4 course meal for 20 friends

12.7. Do a photography course

13. Charity

13.1. Raise £5005 for charity

13.2. Talk about Free Software at a school