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Update on new year todo list

thomas — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:46:41 +0000

In January i wrote a list of goals for 2010. This is how far I’ve got so far:

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.

Too much going on right now

thomas — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:22:39 +0000

There is just too much going on for me to keep my blog updated. I often doesn’t even have the time to update twitter. Check back around the middle of December, when my exams are done.

A short update on the visitor experiment

thomas — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:23:37 +0000

Today I have been spending an hour or two trying out different techniques to spread the word about my blog. It will be interesting to see the results tomorrow. I will probably need to spend more time if I want to get on the front page of digg or something, but I just don’t have that kind of time right now.

Therefore the visitor experiment is heading towards something like “how to get most possible visitors with the least amount of extra work”, which is also useful to know, of course.

If you feel like helping, I will just like to inform you that my site is digg-proof, and can take as much traffic as you can trow at it. Feel free to try to prove otherwise

Now I am going out for the night, so surprise me with some amazing numbers, great tweets or just silence in the meantime.

- @thomassnielsen

An experiment

Thomas — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:29:19 +0000

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).

subdomains for my blog

thomas — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:59:46 +0000

If you are not interested in some of the topics I write about, you can now go directly to your favorite topic by using one of these links instead:

http://food.thomassnielsen.com

http://tech.thomassnielsen.com

Updated about me

thomas — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:15:47 +0000

Check out the updated info about me, if you are interested.

Sorry, few updates for a few days

thomas — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:53:13 +0000

So there has been a few days since last post, and it probably will be a couple of days until the next one also. Here is why: I am busy finishing up my current job, browsing slashdot looking for a new one, possibly relocating to Bergen, and more. While you wait for more content, check out the best web cartoon, XKCD.

Now I need to get back to my busy everyday life, the BBQ is ready.

Welcome! New blog! More awesome! I like turtles!

thomas — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:36:23 +0000

Okay, so welcome, I guess. You have just found my blog. Sometimes I really need to get something out there, but until now I have always just told it to whoever was closest: A colleague, my girlfriend, the other guy waiting for the bus, or a random forum loner not wanting to listen to my awesome thoughts! So that is why I created this blog. Tell the world about all the weird things I think of.

That guy on the right is me, if you haven’t guessed it already. If you did, it’s probably some random dude.

I’ll try to limit it to only things YOU find interesting (this might become difficult, as there are will be a lot of yous, but I’ll try).

That is all for now, I am sure I will write a lot more once my brain comes up with some crazy idea again.

Oh, and by the way, I really do like turtles! So all you guys making fun of that kid should just shut up, because I understand him perfectly well.

Cheers, bye, hasta la vista, au revoir, dra til helvete, etc