Damon Payne put up his goals for 2008 and I decided to post my own. This is the first time I've ever written down goals for a new year, so we'll see how well I actually follow thru on them. I guess that's a goal in and of itself, to report back on my progress throughout the year and write something up on December 31 2008.

Programming, Architecture and Professional Development

• Continue to blog, increasing the quality of my posts (Work in Progress)
• Read at least one book on programming and/or architecture. Apply what I learn to projects I am working on and blog about this. (Need to identify books)
• Start working on one or more personal projects I have been kicking around. The main purpose of these projects is to apply learnings from numerous resources (articles, blogs, books etc), as well as try out new techniques/technologies (IoC, Asp.Net MVC, Linq, MS Sync Runtime) and tools (NDepend, VS Team System). (Work in Progress, need to setup proper home development environment)
• Present at one Madison .Net User Group meeting, most likely on one of the above, or on a project from work. (Identify possible topics)

Investing

• Learn the fundamentals of long term investing (Started)
• Put in the proper time to research new investments (Work in Progress)

Personal Development

• Continue with my studies of Martial Arts, and improve
• Continue playing, and improve at Roller Hockey
• Start learning Japanese

Stuff on the Periphery

• Purchase a Katana and take classes on how to use it

I don't know, it may be too much, but only time will tell. Thankfully, there is allot of overlap, and I've some of the 2008 goals were "goals" from 2007.