New Year's Resolutions and Goals

Here are this year's technical/career goals & resolutions. Most of these are general and many encompass specific current and forward looking work projects. Others are just motivational resolutions.

Goals and Resolutions:

• Turn in Dissertation. It's 75% complete and the rest is all typewriter work. Be done.
  
• Be a better Numerati. The point of modeling is to predict... so this goal is a lifelong career goal with a new label.
• Practice at Done and Get Things Smart and Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
  
• Make damn sure that OthersOnline.com doesn't have any Fail Whale events (technical or business).
  
• Read more tech (academic, business and research blogs) - Seed and water the creative juices.
• Economy willing, hire a full-time minion.
• See if I can practice some 'startup karma' (hat tip Todd Sawicki) for other startups.
  

Specific items:

• Suck down more 'computational advertising' research and write some myself.
• Cherry pick new Semantic techniques from the rat's nets of the Semantic Web.
• NLP and Extraction
• Sharpen skills from classic modeling/filtering/sampling methods.
• Column DBs
• Modern Map-Reduce
• More Scalability
• Data mining from VLDB
  
• Contribute to open source projects again
• File patent(s) and publish a paper(s)
• Clean the Garage
  

Thank heavens I have all year. This is really a post that should evolve all year.. why can't some blog posts be Wiki-like and not so time ordered? I reserve the right to violate blog-etiquette laws and edit this post.