On Sunday I went to look at a room in a house in the small village of Culham,this puts me now nice and close to work at  CCFE, if all goes to plan, I should be out of Swindon and in the new house in just over a week…

..We shall see what happens.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?).

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?

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/)

two options,

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

Also she has now got moods, like in LiveJounal using the [Cricket Moods plugin](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/CricketMoods). Don’t worry, I am not going to start using it on my blog.

I think i will have to make one when i get a place of my own, mainly because it has that ultra modern and industrial look, and because it is a cheap way to have a four poster bed.

here is another exsample of a bed made out of Kee Klamp

I know there is not much to be seen on it, but thats because the side bar is commented out, but once the tags are taken out, more will apear,

A nother site that may be of slight interst is [My Hub Site](http://skippy.termisoc.org) a Site that for a longtime went really no where has been given a quick lick of paint, and turned around.

however [wordpress 2.0](http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wordpress-20-release-candidate/) (currently on RC3) is drawing near, so [skippy.org.uk](http://skippy.org.uk) may be jumping another relise up soon!and after a while (say a few days, if nothing breakes in any nasty way [Kris's Election Site](http://voteforkris.co.uk), [Ruth's Site](http://loupie.co.uk), [the Nus Extra site](http://nusxtra.co.uk], [PaganStudents](http://paganstudents.co.uk), and the [Greenbelt Stewards](http://greenbeltstewards.co.uk) will all be migrated up to 2.0 as well.
All of these sites, with the exseption of the [Nus card site](http://nusxtra.co.uk) have been running 1.5 ish, NUS has been running 1.2 for well forever, so a large set of upgrades are now in order,

Now all i need to do is sort out ther orfdering of the images,

Origanly designed for his campain to run for the Position of Finance and Communications Sabatical, It suffered loss after the [great hard drive death of 2005](/hard-drives-2/) mainly anything with a file name starting with a letter after M in the alphabate was lost, so things like the sidebar no longer worked,

Now it is back Powered by the termiblogers delite that is WordPress – [Ben](http://benalee.co.uk/), and [Dan](http://danbjorn.termisoc.org/bfs/news.php) on the otherhand both use home built systems,

But anyway, its back up, and its not half bad looking, a list of what is in it is [here](http://voteforkris.co.uk/copyright) i know some of it is listed as broken, but thats only because i havent fixed it yet

Will have to see how this will work with the News Network, and i wonder how it will handle Vidio files!

my next challange is digging out the Pod Casting script and making that work happerly!

For the UPSU:NewsNetork I am now waiting for kris to provide me with news storys, then we can give him basic training on the use of [wordpress](http://wordpress.org), and see how it gets on! ao may need to tell him about the [Termisoc](http://termisoc.org) [introduction to HTML](http://termisoc.org/event.php?id=10)

I think both [Loupie](http://loupie.co.uk) and [ben](http://benalee.co.uk), and I will be roliing it accross al of my sites