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Number 2 on my 101 things in 1001 days is “Get a Job”.

Well on Monday I start work with CCFE, a rather geeky group of people who like bashing small things together. My Job Title will be ‘Document Controller’ fundamentally my job will be herding Documentation written by a group of Scientist and Engineers) on projects including JET (Joint European Torus) and ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor).

As some of you may know I like Physics, despite not being very good at it; so hopefully I will also be able this to help me with numbers 3, and 4 on my 101 things list.

Loupie has been doing her 101 things in 1001 days for a while now. I can’t quite remember how far through she is.

After subscribing to the Project52 idea; I wondered what else I could do. and the DayZero Project Sounds interesting;

The Challenge:
Complete 101 pre-set tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on your part).

Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past – frequently simple challenges such as New Year’s resolutions or a ‘Bucket List’. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips, study semesters, or outdoor activities.

So while I am thinking about my list of 101 things I will list the ones I come up with below, with a view to start the challenge on the 1st March 2010 which puts my end date 1029 days.

1. Take a picture to celebrate each goals completion (and perhaps a blog post )
2. Get a Job
3. Move away from Swindon
4. Re-Start university
5. Give up alcohol for a month
6. Give up Tea and Coffee for a month
7. Organize my photos
8. Finish reading the books I own
9. Learn how to edit videos
10. Climb at least 10 Munros
11. Complete the P52 Challenge
12. Develop all of the Photos I have on Film
13. Attend a LAN party
14. Sell off all unnecessary things on Ebay
15. get rid of clothes not worn in 2 years
16. Host a wine and cheese evening
17. Buy a new CD each month for a year
18. Give £2 to charity for each task I don’t complete
19. Go swimming at least once a week for 3 months
20. Complete the “The Most Ancient and Venerable Order of the Skylark and Hawthorne” challenge [ref]
21. Drink only water for 1 month
22. Watch 25 of 100 “Best Movies” [This list]
23. Host a board game night
24. Have dinner by candlelight
25. Put £25 for every goal completed into a Savings account
26. Not log into facebook for a whole week
27. Keep my bedroom spotless for a month
28. Go for a walk every day for a month
29. Spend a whole weekend (Sat-Sun) without TV/Computer/Etc.
30. Get a new camera
31. Get a new Phone
32. Learn how to scuba dive
33. Skinny dip
34. Update my Curriculum Vitae
35. plant a tree
36. Go to at least 10 concerts
37. Stop biting my nails
38. See the Rocky Horror Picture Show in drag
39. Complete the C25K
40. Complete the One Hundred Press-up Challenge
41. Complete the Two Hundred Sit up challenge
42. Complete the 7lb in 7 Day supper juice diet

I will have to have a think about this and work some more on it.

Things that have been removed from my list:

• Give up chocolate for a month [1]
• Give up fizzy drinks for a month [1]
• Inspire someone else to make a Day Zero list [2]
• Complete the “5,000 Question Survey” [this] [3]

1. Loupie Correctly pointed out that these would not be a challenge for me, as I so rarely do the activity I would be giving up
2. After reading this blog bma and Natalie started their own lists but before I had started my DayZero project.
3. This Task has no real aim, and or point; and as such has been removed.

Some one in deepest darkest TermiSoc Twittered about Project52; and as such I had a look

Project52 is a personal challenge geared toward getting fresh content on your website. The goal is to write at least 1 new article per week for 1 year. Because we all know what it‘s like to procrastinate on our content. A website is not just a fresh design that can be uploaded to the web and forgotten about!

And because this site so often is devoid of new content I have decided to sign up both this site and PhilipMcGaw.com to the challenge. This all coming from some one who has posted about 5 times in the last 3 years, so please wish me luck.

I am now running Skippy.org.uk on Wordpress MU with a domain mapping plugin.

This should all now work nicely (well we can hope). but if it does this will allow me to make easer and quicker backups of my sites along with making security easer to manage.

As you may have spotted I have moved my blog. I am now hosted on Subvert.org.uk With thanks to Ben A’Lee. At the moment I haven’t moved all that much across; but it is my hope that over the next few days that should all change; and hopefully in time I will be able to move all the content that was hosted on TermiSoc’s servers.

Some of my other domains will be served from Subvert as well:

• Caple.eu
• Loupie.co.uk
• McGaw.eu
• Skippy.org.uk

Others will be let go; and hopefully others will be back soon.

And in other news:-

• If you have an Apple iPod Touch, or an Apple iPhone, there is a Plug-in on this blog that makes viewing it on a mobile device much nicer; so give that a go
• Hopefully my blog will be updated more often thanks to both the iPod/iPhone Blog tool, and Windows Live writer (Does any one know of one that will work on a Mac?).

And there we have it, a condom’ed Camera, Now the question is how to get a Nikon D70 underwater?

I am thinking that mounting it in a 200mm plastic tube with clear end caps, and mounting the infer red wand in condoms,

or dismantal one, put everything in the tube, bar the switch?

There is a Google Earth Panorama Viewer Tutorial that kicks arse, when i get around to fixing PhilipMcGaw.com I think i will distribute my panoramics as KMZ’s as well

yes, he finaly found out which bit of his blog was broken, yes it was my theme that was broken, for some reason parts of it were not fixed by the restoration after the borknessed. its now a good exscuse to find a new theme, even more sexy than the old one,

I have now got a [webcam](http://skippy.org.uk/projects/up-webcam/) and it was cheaper than the one UPSU bought.

The UP:Cam still works, however there is no curent links to it anywhere on the web, so i will have to see if i can find the IP address of the thing again, (help out anyone?) The Last? Live link to the UPSU Web camera [http://141.163.124.241/](http://141.163.124.241/)

When looking to populate your girlfriends image gallery for testing, dont move your gallery into hers, and then once all moved delete them after the test is compleat.

two options,

1. try and restore my gallery from my hard drive
2. draw a line, and just start from now on.