1. Blog at least once a week
Check (or at least very close).

2. Find a bigger apartment
Check. Double in size, now living together with my girlfriend.

3. Publish at least one of my projects as a GPL project
Not yet. Will be done.

4. Publish an iPhone app
Check, check, check, check and check.

5. Learn more international recipes and cook more varied and healthier food
Check and ongoing

6. Upload some form of tutorial video on my website (preferably several, maybe even regularly)
Still in the planing stages. Maybe with cohost!

7. Pick up exercising again
Check. Taking walks and going to the gym.

8. Drink less soda (and generally eat less sugar)
Check, especially on sugars other than soda.

9. Save more money each month
Check. Now saved enough to buy a barbecue grill and go on vacation.

10. Find a tenth item for my list
Not yet.

In short: Things are going great, still stuff left to do.

Crush It the book

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Sometimes you hear people talk about life-changing experiences. Maybe it was a trip, maybe it was an event, maybe an accident, or even a book. For me it was a book. More precisely “Crush it!” by Gary Vaynerchuk.

I listened to the book in audio format, read by the man himself. If you got an audible subscription, this is a great way to spend a credit. Even if you aren’t planing to start your own business this will give you a new perspective on life. But if your dream is to be an entrepreneur, this will be even more valuable for you.

So what does this has to do with the new design? I am planning to try harder. Much harder. And my first action is to redesign the site. I know it is a rip-off of apple.com, but so what? They’ve got better designers than I could afford if i mortgaged all of my family’s homes, so I might as well just copy their work.

Next on the agenda? Stay active, continue developing my apps, but most importantly of all, stay focused on what matters most: My family, and especially my girlfriend. Without them I couldn’t do this anyway, so they come first. Second? My dream of becoming and independent software developer, and hopefully expand it to a thriving business. Before TV, before playing games, and so on.

If you like tech, software or software design, my blog might just be the thing for you. Follow me on twitter or facebook to keep up with the latest news.

There is no secret that websites without ads look much cleaner and better. And a few dollars is not worth bothering you with. So from now on, my website will be ad free, and will only contain content I want to show you, my reader.

On another note, Mine Searcher Free 1.2 is now available in the App Store. Check it out. It’s free.

Look at the shiny numbers!

My website has now moved to a much faster server (we are talking about 4-5 years newer tech). This should make the site much more enjoyable for both you and me, and that can’t be anything but a good thing.

New iPhone/iPad games

For now I can tell you that one brand new iPhone game is sent to Apple for review, while one even more exciting game is in the works. The iPhone game in for review is comparable to already existing desktop and mobile games, while the game that is still a work in progress is completely original, developed specifically for the iPad. Exciting stuff! Keep checking in for updates from time to time.

Bergens Tidende wrote an article about me moving because of the air quality. I contacted them to bring more attention to the bad air quality.

When we get settled in I will get back to developing iPhone and iPad apps, with update to textscream and two more secret projects coming up.

I’ve been busy lately. Here is a summary of my future plans:
- I will wrap up the visitor experiment soon.
- I will not be blogging as intensively in the coming weeks, but probably about twice a week.
- I will be forking the tech part of the blog to a separate and more professional site.

Check back for more details on the new tech blog soon. I will also write a couple of tech posts before the transition, as it will take some time to get the design done.

Experiment

This article is the announcement of a spontaneously started experiment. I will in the following month try to get as many visitors to my blog as possible. If it succeeds, I will post my techniques and results. All the techniques will be fast and easy to adopt, since I can’t spend much time on my blog for the time being.

Stage 1: Spread the word
Part 1 relies on you. Please spread the word of my blog and my experiment as you read this. Use the buttons below if you want to share this experiment post. I will update on the experiment as we go along, and all the posts will be tagged with visitor experiment.

Stage 2: Check in regularly
If you use twitter, please follow @thomassnielsen. If you use an RSS reader, follow my RSS feed (or chose a feed based only on category or tag).

• The trip to Naxos, Greece (with images)
  • Greek food
  • Good, classic drinks you can get anywhere
  • A book review or two
• Several tech posts (finally!)
  • My long-term programing project
  • Web TV shows I watch
  • More

So I have more than enough ideas now, I just have to write them. I hope to have at least one new post every day for the next week.