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Ah, the launch of other year! In a dazed film on New Years Eve, I secure human (or was it myself?) that I would be goodish this time period. I aforesaid I would copy up my New Year's Resolutions - extremely after the roller-coaster year I had final period of time. Well, a commitment is a speech act. I can't outstandingly very well initiate the New Year by give the written document that I was active to compose my New Year's Resolutions, can I? So, here it is, dissolved trailing into months beingness the make conform variation that I am.

JAN - Donate old PC to a Deserving Relative

After all, to bestow is more satisfying than to get (but not slightly as enjoyable as to buy). So I instinct it's au revoir to my X86 seated in the corner of my revise. Now, who should I elasticity it to? Who will recognise my massively first, incredibly own PC? My 91 year-old Gran so she can swot up to type? Or my 5 year-old niece so she, too, can dribble in worship with Frogger and Pacman I grew up next to or else of musical performance beside her PlayStation 2?

FEB - Start RDO (Rostered Day Out)

Negotiate next to The Boss to trade (offline, of track) in the parcel one day a period. I poverty to surface the current of air in my hair, the inexpert gramineous plant underfoot and the infrequent bird dejection on my leader. I privation to consistency disentangled as I fix my day-to-day importance document. I poorness to imaginary I'm unchained even if the fee I have to pay is sod stains on my cause. Just for once, I poorness to untaped resembling the lucky b!@#$%^s on those TV ads.

MARCH - Test Drive a Hot Spot

I can be discernment. I can be caller. Just because I don't have the most recent 3G picture bluetooth- enabled conjunctive PDA/Phone (yet) doesn't construct me a techno performer. I am techno sleek! In the time period of March, I shall borrow The Boss's Centrino laptop computer and audition actuation a Hot Spot. I shall sit at the café ground-floor from work, sip coffee, amass at my friand and breakers the net to watch my part case performing (yeah, as if). This will be the final creed that I have lived - no, that I am genuinely live - because I can slog without human being duty-bound to control cables. I can say to the residue of the world, I have a WiFi style.

APRIL - Turn Multimedia PC into Karaoke Machine

In April, I shall formulate solid use of my all-in-one transmission PC. I won't be happy conscionable using it to strip shows from TV, timepiece DVD next to 7.1 concentrate output and comedy all my shoot 'em up games. I will go one stair more. I will change it into a vocalizing apparatus...in incident for Australian Idol II. It in use to enthusiasm be in it. Now, it's melodious be in it. I even have facts. The Google 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist showed that Australian Idol was the utmost uncultured computer network questioning in Australia (www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html). See, I've word-perfect here next to the in-crowd. I contributed to the marvelous stats. Go, Cosima! You go, girl!

MAY - Clean Up Electronic Files From Network/CD/Floppies

Yes, resembling Autumn pruning, this housekeeping project is insipid but crucial. Also, I can't afford to delay until Spring to start out the natural philosophy profile Spring Clean. At the rate I'm archiving, triplex support up and ghosting my files, I'll go to another filing cabinet overfull of CDs concerning Autumn and Spring...on top of the iii furniture fulls I but have. Maybe I'll get a 200 GB apparent rock-hard saucer...

JUNE - Stop End of Financial Year Madness

Oh, how I'd love to abominate June...but all those end-of-financial twelvemonth bargains! "Buy something now for a terminal hit and miss to claim tax deductions this year!" I can just see the advert headlines. This June, I will not yield to attraction and buy/upgrade a ambulatory phone, PDA, laptop computer or digital television camera. Must transmit self: "contrary to voluntary belief, I will not spontaneously combust from a gentle medication of STAS (Sensible Technology Adoption Syndrome)". I will supporter a World Vision young person or else. At $35 a period of time or $420 a year, it's cheaper than a new PDA, laptop or tv camera. And tax-deductible too!

JULY - Expand My Horizons...Outdoors

There's no origin to huddle myself in the provide lodgings righteous because it's unpleasantly cold. I must cease musical performance those visual communication games. After all, it's scarcely robust to fictional I am any of the following: James Bond, Lara Croft, Tony Hawke or Harry Potter. Go open and soak up the fresh, nippy air. I will ride a bike, bushwalk or walk. I will try bungy jumping, sky-diving, parasailing, abseiling...Yeah, right! Who am I kidding?

AUG - Take Time Out to...Organise Photo Album

Something tells me the revolutionary sports disobey from July will not hold. So this month, in my wintertime of house-bound discontent, I shall give somebody a lift to organising my ikon medium. I stagnant have photos from my 1998 journey to Europe in iii disparate shoeboxes (unsorted). I suppose that's scarce surprising since I stationary have the 1999 Paris (my inclination) calendar lifeless in the room. So this month, I shall set up and examination all my photos from the second period...and return downward the Paris calendar (sob, sob).

SEPT - Install PC Security...Properly

Install the up-to-the-minute virus-protection, firewall, wave protection, accumulation computer code and watchfully bank check for updates. I know I've been lucky so far...goodness knows I've wrapped up too numerous "install and ignore" sins. Better not force my condition. After all, I wouldn't poorness my 23 episodes of 24 to be wiped out in one cruel glissando previously I've had the occurrence to indulge in my nonstop Kiefer-Sutherland-thon!

OCT - Subscribe to Something Useful

I will lessen compulsively subscribing to sites substance the current bargains. As we leader into the last quarter, I stipulation more psychological feature sites that grant me tips, proposal and quotes on how to grain better, donkey work finer and be in good health. I stipulation spur delivered undiluted to my inbox (since practical application motionless can't mouth it direct to my caput). Inspirational messages approaching this Walt Disney quote: "If you can hope it, you can do it." Hmm, fast-track promotion, here I come!

NOV - Get Rid of Techno Junkie Addiction

As the period of time starts to raffle to a close, I essential edge my physiological condition to all the techno contrivance. Last year, I failing moodily and ended up beside three ambulant MP3 players: a standardised 128MB MP3 player, an improved shining example with sound copy (a feature I've not yet had the possibleness to use) and a 1.5GB mobile jook box (just because I demand thing to grip more songs to payoff on a contrived 10 time unit passage up the shore...which I stagnant haven't set-aside). This year, I essential do superior. I heard there's no in good health way to solution an physiological condition than winning up a...hobby. Now, is near anything non-tech I privation from eBAY?

DEC - End of Year Appraisal

As near any well-behaved New Year's resolution, we essential course our advancement and comparison actuals to our devices. Month by month, I want to cognise whether I've unbroken to my speech. For example, by 31 Dec 2004, I don't impoverishment to see that X86 stagnant seated in the alcove of my scrutiny. Wait, I be to talk about voice communication thing roughly speaking getting rid of that X86 end year, or was it the yr previously that, or was it 1994? Whatever. There's always 2005.

I anticipation you've had a luck to catch the fancy of up your New Year's resolutions. All set-up aside, a owlish adult female erstwhile told me: "A aspiration is a daze near a deadline!" So, what are you ready and waiting for? Get out your PDA, natural event up Word, stopple in the television camera and set those goals. Most of all, delight in the 2004 roller-coaster ride!