2003: Year In Review

While looking for an old document of junk I found this Year in Review document. I present it to you in unedited form. Note: If only I data vized my stats I would have had 3 years on Feltron. I'm unsure why I didn't post this. It's quite funny to me now. I did a year in review for 2005 and for last year. 2003 Year In review: Soap went from 3 people to 2, then to 3, then 4 then 5. The first full year of working for myself. We launched a new website in December which we started in January. Had a client get arrested and go to jail for importing $100M+ of Ecstacy. We never saw our money. We bought a heater, 3 Emacs, 2 PC's and 2 printers. And numerous software. We also bought numerous chairs which will all be obsolete in January 2004 Did our first eyeblaster banners with Syrup. Completed our first commercial CDROM job for Contiki and HOST. Built our first flash desktop app for Big Brother 03. First mentioned in B&T for Moboy and Big Brother Got the Flash Forward award we won last year from Leo ---------- I retired my laptop to work on a Emac. The took my laptop out of retirement with OSX 10.3 to work occasionally at home. Bought an IPOD. Converted all my CD's to MP4's. Realized Itunes was useful. TOP Songs/Albums of 2003: According to Ipods Play Counts: 24 Doves: Lost Souls: Firesuite 22 Coldplay: A Rush of Blood: Clocks: 22 COldplay: Parachutes: Shiver 21 The Prodigy: The Fat of the Land: Climbatize The Shins: Og Inverted World: Caring is Creepy: AIR: Moon Safari: Sexy Boy Cat Power: Moon Safari: Cross Bones Style Eels: Novacaine for the Soul Easy Me: Faith No More Oh Yeah: Yellow Faith No More is the only artist i own a CD off. The rest I burnt from friends. Weird they should make up the top 25 in my Top played songs: Only Smashing Pumpkins with 1979 and the before-mentioned Faith No More are the lone artist's in my Top 40 of which I own CD's of. I guess my friends have good taste and I'm a stingy bastard. Finally understood XML and it's worth The first full year in sydney I have lived in the same apartment. In December I finally bought a PS2 and tried to make up for lost time. I raised $2,150 for Oxfam to travel to China only to have SARS and work interrupted plans. I Visited Melbourne for the first time. Visited QLD twice >> Spoke at 2 conferences this year: Flashklt and Digit. Both ill-prepared but went down well. Also got asked to speak in Singapore (free flight) only to have a job due the same day. Then find out the job is delayed. My little sister moved in to live with me for a while. Still haven't got Private Health Cover, Insurance or Laser Eye Surgery. We bought a new kettle. Bought a DVD player to go with the DVD's i own. http://www.theslipperytruffle.com/v4/archives/2003_06.html#000972 Finally started paying for dialup after my free UUNET account stopped working. Realised i can make good smoothies. Made and consumed around 50 Bought my first ever suit for Robs wedding. Finally got a electric toothbrush Realised i like Felafel Kebabs from Ali Baba. Bought and consumed about 15 Sworn off soft drink about 10 times Got a new mobile phone (Siemens S55) and have hated it ever since. Number of times vomited: 4 Number of Migraines: 3 Number of fights: 0 Distance i drove a car: 0km Number of Weddings Attended: 1 Pairs of Shoes bought: 1 Pairs of Shoes worn: 3 Number of times rent paid late: 18 Number of times sunburnt: 1 Allnighters at work: 3 Number of times went to bed before 12am: 50 won ticket to premier of Matrix 2. 1 ticket!!!! I sat behind Jimmy Barnes and next to 2 suited people. I saw the president from 24 on the Red Carpet i made a google #1 http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=bored+stiffy+in+public+places&meta=