New years is approaching, and I have been contemplating exactly what I’ve done this past year. This is what I’ve come up with, though it may not be 100% accurate, since it’s hard to remember the exact time I did these things.
- Built my fourth computer
- Went to an Iron Maiden concert
- Learned how to code autoit scripts
- Learned how to reverse and then forgot (I’m guessing this was the beginning of 08)
- Watched a lot of anime. I mean a lot, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Yu Yu Hakusho & Full Metal Alchemist from start to finish. I caught “Anime Fever” for a little bit there.
- Went to Disney World, Universal, & SeaWorld for the fourth time.
- Turned 18
- Launched this website.
Funny, that’s really all I can think of. I guess I’ve been kind of inactive this year, of course I always have school I go to, and I play a lot of video games, so I’m kind of unproductive sometimes. I can’t even remember what I did over this last summer. I think it was a lot of being lazy. If I remember other noteworthy things I’ll put them up, but the majority of this year I’m not so proud of 
Back when I was 12 or 13 I had a big fat long list of things I did for that year that were technology related. Each year I make some progress in keeping up with the times.
I hope some of you have done more than me this year!
Goals for next year:
- Graduate High School
- Go to college. (I’ve already been accepted to the college I want)
- Learn how to code in PHP (This has been on my list FOREVER maybe I should just give it up..)
- Still have this site up and running and going strong.
I’ll have to think of other “New Years Resolutions” but I usually stick to things I can actually try and keep.
I have Windows XP installed on my D: drive and Windows Vista installed on my C: drive. I’ve edited the cfg files and moved some boot files for XP over to the C: drive, so I could choose between XP and Vista at start. My problem was, I wanted LINUX as well. Apparently I’m behind the times with Linux, because Ubuntu has something called Wubi which was PERFECT for my situation. All I had to do was install Wubi. That’s it, no complex partitioning, no messing with boot loaders, nothing. Easy. I still use the Vista bootloader to either boot XP, Vista, or Ubuntu.
I know a lot of people still run their wireless routers without any encryption whatsoever. You really shouldn’t do this. Why? Well, there are some people that use wireless networks to do malicious things. Maybe they’ll do a little hacking on your network, maybe buy some things with stolen credit cards, the list goes on. People with insecure networks often have the default password on their router, therefore anyone connecting to your access point can access your router! They could also be using packet sniffers sniffing out data you’re putting on the Internet. If you have a bandwidth cap, they’re stealing bandwidth you could be using.