Andy Roberts in 2005

2005 was 89% worth living.

In 2005, Andy Roberts did 91 things, went 69 places, met 7 people, and consumed 1 product.

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Visit China — completed 8 days later
  2. get a Mac mini — completed about 1 month later
  3. SMART04 - install MediaWiki at dc-hosting — completed about 1 month later
  4. use SMART tasks to take steps towards my goals — completed 2 months later
  5. track my SMART tasks for the next module using 43 things — completed about 1 month later
  6. SMART 01 - check out options and prices at current domain host, including transfer out — completed about 1 month later
  7. SMART 02 - try uploading a moinmoin Wiki — completed about 1 month later
  8. SMART 03 - find a new hosting service for the website — completed about 1 month later
  9. Explore how 43 things can be a social change tool — completed 5 months later
  10. learn how to record sound onto my computer, process and podcast — completed about 1 year later
  11. learn cascading stylesheets
  12. create an online cv website — completed over 2 years later
  13. Review and finish the songs I wrote in Spain 2003
  14. scan in some of my old photographs
  15. Use Technorati tags in my blogs — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. live outside the united states — Worth doing!
  2. Learn to play the guitar — Worth doing!
  3. Take more pictures
  4. visit Amsterdam — Worth doing!
  5. Visit Scotland — Worth doing!
  6. pass my next ultraversity module — Worth doing!
  7. Learn DreamWeaver — Worth doing!
  8. find an alternative to owning a car — Worth doing!
  9. grow a beard — Worth doing!
  10. visit paris — Worth doing!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. SMART05 - plan the next phase — completed about 1 month later
  2. SMART06 Write a literature review for the action enquiry — completed about 1 month later
  3. SMART07 - update old site — completed about 1 month later
  4. SMART08 - questionnaire — completed about 1 month later
  5. use 43things to develop collaborative Ultraversity work — completed 4 months later
  6. update the Ultrastudents website a bit — completed 7 months later
  7. convert some of my vinyl records to mp3
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. listen to more Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan — Worth doing!
  2. Visit China — Worth doing!
  3. work at a college or university — Worth doing!
  4. Visit Australia — Worth doing!
  5. get married — Not worth doing
  6. learn to raise just one eyebrow — Worth doing!
  7. see the midnight sun — Worth doing!
  8. get a Mac mini — Worth doing!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. SMART10 - publish — completed about 1 month later
  2. learn how to include an RSS feed on part of a web page — completed 2 months later
  3. backup my blog with all associated files so that it could be recreated elsewhere if needs be — completed 11 months later
  4. Record my songs — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. SMART04 - install MediaWiki at dc-hosting — Worth doing!
  2. SMART05 - plan the next phase — Worth doing!
  3. SMART06 Write a literature review for the action enquiry — Worth doing!
  4. SMART07 - update old site — Worth doing!
  5. SMART08 - questionnaire — Worth doing!
  6. SMART09 - finish the report — Worth doing!
  7. use SMART tasks to take steps towards my goals — Worth doing!
  8. track my SMART tasks for the next module using 43 things — Worth doing!
  9. SMART 01 - check out options and prices at current domain host, including transfer out — Worth doing!
  10. SMART 02 - try uploading a moinmoin Wiki — Worth doing!
  11. SMART 03 - find a new hosting service for the website — Worth doing!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. LITWS01 get through the module — completed about 1 month later
  2. ILM2-01 - negotiate ILM — completed about 1 month later
  3. Set up my old PC as standalone — completed about 1 month later
  4. Choose a new broadband ISP — completed 2 months later
  5. IR01 file my self-employed tax self-assesment promptly
  6. Survive November and the first 9 days of December — completed 7 months later
  7. research DAB radio sets and get one
  8. Complete Year 3 of the degree — completed about 1 year later
  9. play more music — completed about 1 year later
  10. get paid the wages I'm owed — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. LITWS02 - review last year's PDP — Worth doing!
  2. SMART10 - publish — Worth doing!
  3. live in london — Not worth doing
  4. stop watching so much tv — Worth doing!
  5. get a real programming job — Worth doing!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. ILM2-03 - LA2 Research Literature — completed 20 days later
  2. write and record more music
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. LITWS01 get through the module — Worth doing!
  2. Get some badges made to take to the Welsh Cider Festival — Worth doing!
  3. ILM2-01 - negotiate ILM — Not worth doing
  4. learn how to include an RSS feed on part of a web page — Worth doing!
  5. Set up my old PC as standalone — Worth doing!
Consumed:
  1. The Internet — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. finish my final report of the year — completed 5 days later
  2. Learn MySQL — completed about 1 month later
  3. redesign my blog — completed 2 months later
  4. Make a taglist type diagram of my learning — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. ILM2-03 - LA2 Research Literature — Worth doing!
  2. ILM2-05 LA3 - analyse mail and wiki data — Worth doing!
  3. ILM2-07 LA6 - Stitching — Worth doing!
  4. Explore how 43 things can be a social change tool — Not worth doing
  5. use 43things to develop collaborative Ultraversity work — Worth doing!
  6. Help test Tootietails: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Lake Vostok
  2. Trojka
  3. Jersey
  4. Primrose Hill — visited 29 days later
  5. Galicia — visited about 1 month later
  6. Sankt-Peterburg
  7. London Wetland Centre
  8. Guernsey
  9. Finland
  10. Jupiter
  11. Antarctica
  12. The Earth — visited 10 months later
  13. Isle of Wight
  14. Venezuela
  15. Saint Lucia
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Beijing — Worth visiting!
  2. Tate Modern — Worth visiting!
  3. Wales — Worth visiting!
  4. Cornwall — Worth visiting!
  5. Truro — Worth visiting!
  6. Great Barrier Reef — Worth visiting!
  7. Alberta — Worth visiting!
  8. Lake Louise — Worth visiting!
  9. Japan — Worth visiting!
  10. Eryri — Worth visiting!
  11. Paris — Worth visiting!
  12. Turkey — Worth visiting!
  13. Bodrum — Worth visiting!
  14. Three Gorges — Worth visiting!
  15. British Columbia — Worth visiting!

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July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. finish my final report of the year — Worth doing!
  2. Survive an Al-Qaeda attack right by my home — Not worth doing
  3. Choose a new broadband ISP — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Trans-Siberian Railway
  2. Brussels — visited 9 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Great Wall — Worth visiting!
  2. Chongqing — Worth visiting!
  3. Wanxian — Worth visiting!
  4. Saint Raphael — Not worth visiting
  5. Poitiers — Worth visiting!
  6. Futuroscope — Worth visiting!
  7. Annet — Worth visiting!
  8. Mornington Crescent — Not worth visiting
  9. Plymouth — Not worth visiting
  10. Tower Bridge — Worth visiting!
  11. Nantlle — Worth visiting!
  12. Beddgelert — Worth visiting!
  13. Canyon De Sil — Worth visiting!
  14. Primrose Hill — Worth visiting!

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August

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn MySQL — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Galicia — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Lindiop — met about 1 year later
  2. Billy Abbott — met 2 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. EveT
  2. London Dan

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. eat more raw foods — completed about 1 month later
  2. Cultivate Sprouts — completed 2 months later
  3. do research that I can be proud of — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. redesign my blog — Not worth doing
  2. Learn to play go — Worth doing!
  3. Finish my ILM — Worth doing!
  4. Help sort out the raw food Wiki — Worth doing!
  5. Write my research proposal on a sheet of A4 paper — Worth doing!
  6. update my degree title suffix claim rationale — Worth doing!
  7. Decide what to research for my third year action enquiry — Worth doing!
  8. Survive until Friday — Worth doing!
  9. update the Ultrastudents website a bit — Not worth doing
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Centre For Alternative Technology

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Try not to get angry with people, just because they are incompetent, thoughtless and inept.
  2. find out who's subscribing to me :)
  3. Identify a research focus and develop a research proposal — completed about 1 month later
  4. write my research proposal — completed about 1 month later
  5. Plan learning activities and an investigation towards an exhibition of research findings — completed 2 months later
  6. find a way to delete 'plazes' from my mac — completed about 1 month later
  7. decide what my 3rd year exhibition will be like — completed 4 months later
  8. learn how to use WordPress — completed 4 months later
  9. keep checking that my research sticks to an action research methodology — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Analyse and critically evaluate prior learning related to current workplace requirements. — Not worth doing
  2. Learn to play a musical instrument — Worth doing!
  3. backpack through Europe — Worth doing!
  4. edit my 43Things so that they are what I really want to do and not just things that seemed cool when I first signed up — Worth doing!
  5. have a band — Worth doing!
  6. be in a band — Worth doing!
  7. start a band — Worth doing!
  8. walk 10,000 steps a day — Not worth doing
  9. be satisfied that mySQL database is safely backed up — Worth doing!
  10. Register a new domain name — Worth doing!
  11. Take part in a collaborative creative endeavor — Worth doing!
  12. install wordpress — Worth doing!
  13. install multiple blogs on one database — Worth doing!
  14. decide on the timeline for my research — Worth doing!
  15. eat more raw foods — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Buster McLeod
  2. Downes
  3. bethlet — met 2 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. estherase
  2. Billy Abbott
  3. EvanRoberts
  4. Tony Blair

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Work on my Secret Goal
  2. start a cult
  3. install an offline pop3 email client and newsgroup reader on my Mac — completed 6 months later
  4. write a statement of personal philosophy and a personal statement of research ethics — completed about 1 year later
  5. Obtain a wifi enabled laptop
  6. work from home
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. tidy my desktop — Worth doing!
  2. Read 'le petite prince' in french — Worth doing!
  3. Coin a New Word or Phrase — Worth doing!
  4. try out last.fm — Worth doing!
  5. plan my pilot exhibition — Worth doing!
  6. Identify a research focus and develop a research proposal — Worth doing!
  7. Find a few people willing to view my online Pilot Exhibition — Worth doing!
  8. Thank the robots for finally allowing us to cheer comments and adding an "I give up" option! — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Try not to get angry with people, just because they are incompetent, thoughtless and inept.
  2. find out who's subscribing to me :)
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Three Mackerels
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. NancyWhite — met 7 months later

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Reply to all my comments on the pilot online exhibition
  2. blog more — completed about 1 month later
  3. blog regularly — completed 2 months later
  4. Plan my third year exhibition — completed 2 months later
  5. Find out why xmlrpc.php isn't working on my Wordpress Blog — completed 6 months later
  6. Blog every day — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. write my research proposal — Worth doing!
  2. write up my methodology — Worth doing!
  3. Cultivate Sprouts — Worth doing!
  4. Plan learning activities and an investigation towards an exhibition of research findings — Worth doing!
  5. find a way to delete 'plazes' from my mac — Worth doing!
  6. live in Paris — Worth doing!
  7. Ride a mechanical bull — Worth doing!
  8. Survive November and the first 9 days of December — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. write and record more music
  2. IR01 file my self-employed tax self-assesment promptly
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. bethlet

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