Well I started my new years resolutions yesterday and so far so good … ish but I guess these aren’t new years resolutions but more ways to improve my life this year and if I can stick with it somewhat I’ll be happy. I may also add to this list if anyone has any other good suggestions ?

Most of these are really common sense but … far be it from me to have common sense

Health

• Cook more meals
• Eat less junk food (Pizza is not a food group)
• Stop drinking so much (no more having a beer or two in the evening occasional outbursts of madness are allowed)
• Get healthy
• No Energy drinks (coke doesn’t count so much but its on the list allowed with cinema)
• Get my 5 a day ( coffee / coke / red bull / kick / pizza / ham and bread sandwiches don’t count)
• Get to bed at sane hours

Work

• Create forbairt.ie
• Start a large project with code igniter (Task Drop)
• Spend less time working
• Normal working hours
• Take Lunch breaks
• 1 Day off completely a week
• Less *****y projects
• Don’t do favours for friends so much
• More social networking
• Fixed working hours
• Alot some time for training
• Attempt more public speaking

Personal Improvement

• Improve French (Watch EuroNews / Attend meetups for speaking french)
• Do more German

Personal

• Get to cinema more (I’m paying for it I may as well use it)
• Get playing petanque again
• Work on a few personal projects
• Finally move away from dreamhost completely
• Less time spent on forums
• Get rid of the excess of PC hardware / machines I’ve got
• Make time to meet up with friends properly
• Make it to vienna once
• More time for the keyboard (learn 3 nice songs)
• No purchased haircuts this year … its what the hedge trimmers I bought is for
• Waste less food (if something is in the fridge it has to be used)
• Eat out more (BK doesn’t count *sniff sniff*)

Anyways I’ll see how I get on its a pretty long list (at least I think it is)

Well geansai gorm is over in just under 14 hours.

I’d just like to of course say best of luck to my own entry geansai gorm. And of course wish a best of luck to my two preferred winners if it can’t be me

http://www.mybluejumper.com

http://www.suiomheadach.com

If it can’t be me it’ll hopefully be one of them

As you may have seen on my other blog posts, its been interesting. I’m not sure how much I’ve exactly learned. Its quite a short time frame and with that much competition over a short time period its difficult to really say how you are doing.

Anyways thats me signing off for the night

Well the last month for me has been a bit of a daze between one thing and another its been all go. I’ve no had as much time as I would have liked to have to spend on SEO for my website taskdrop also known as my geansai gorm entry to Damien Mulleys SEO competition. Cormacs entry seems to be holding its own as well with little or no link building so far Geansaí Gorm is his site if you fancy brushing up on a bit of irish or getting out the dictionary like me.

This week so far I’ve gone from a mocked up to fully ? functional website for OSS Bar Camp and I must say I’m quite happy with it. Its drawing from the Ubuntu colour scheme but hell so is I accept Cookies (oh wait no its not) If you’re going to be in Dublin on March 28th why not head into the barcamp and meet a few people and hear a few talks. I’m going to be trying to give one. I’m not however a good public speaker so maybe a quieter affair might be called for … or some Dutch (Czech) courage as I’m liking to call it.

I’m working on a new forbairt.ie website which is just going to take on a just do it and forget about how it looks too much. Let my clients sites hopefully speak for themselves and speak in a good way. With a new Dust Solutions website going live this week .. and the Galway City Museum website going live tomorrow hopefully its a hectic week. (also launched an Ulster Scots website … working on a new theme for a Library … and as always supporting existing customers … hopefully pretty well).

Anyways thats whats been happening in my life the last while work work work … and I’m kinda loving it. Its a good feeling having happy customers .. ( TaskDrop my new tool really does seem to be helping me get on top of things … though of course I’ve to clear some major workload first before I reap the benefits. I’ve 165 items in my todo list … completed and new … not sure how many currently but my time is laid out over the next little while on what I’ve got to do and hopefully it means I don’t forget things and let customers down through being a headless chicken)

The next week I guess I’m going to get busy trying to do a small bit of SEO for Geansai Gorm and see i I can’t clinch the title. I don’t however want to go polluting directories and so on too much as we’re currently seeing a bit of that and while its part of the game in some respect it lessens the tone of the competition for me. There aren’t exactly any big players in it and I think it may end up giving the public a false sense of worth in the overall winner .. (still of course hoping it’ll be me)

Show me the False Worth

Thanks to the guys over at EireStudio.net for this mornings piece of good news.

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I’ve been a fan for a long time of http://icanhascheezburger.com/ would you believe its how I start my week days … check one or two emails and then check for new http://icanhascheezburger.com/ posts. Well I put together my own image tonight. No I won’t be submitting it to the icanhascheezburger website as I think the term geansai gorm would probably be lost on the vast majority of users.

My image is located here I can has Geansai Gorm. The original was actually with a purple jumper but some minor adjustments and for a 5 minute job I’m quite happy with it.

The site is coming along nicely… wonder how it’ll be faring in the morning.