I suppose its that time of the year again to make up a list of things that I wish to accomplish in 2009. I hardly ever follow my resolutions, so this year I am going to change my life a little to fit in these changes. So here we go.

1. Eat Healthy - I have pretty much cut fast food out of my life, granted I still treat myself to eating unhealthy a few times a month. Hopefully I can stick with this and drop some weight along the way
2. Work Out - I guess this goes hand in hand with resolution number one. I want to try to fit in 30minutes - 1hr of working out a day, switching up some lifting with some Cardio.
3. De Clutter - Through the years I have acquired and given away a lot of computer junk. Most of the time I don’t know how I get it in the first place. But either way its taking up a bunch of boxes in my closet. I think I might finally make use of my ebay account and give Craigslist another try.
4. Read Actual Books - I can sit all day and read online, but picking up a book has always been a challenge to me. If only books came with an IM client built in then it might hold my attention longer. I really want to finish A Divine Comedy as I started it and now its just collecting dust.
5. Budget - I really want to get my budget in order.  Its been too many years that I have unsuccessfully been paying off my Credit Cards.  I need to get them to a manageable limit and then start putting some away into a saving.
6. New Car - And by new I mean something that has been made in the last 5yrs.  I am tired of these third rate beaters that I get and drive into the ground.  I need to get something new and reliable
7. Get back to LA.

That’s really it for this year, I think that it should be pretty easy to stick too…. I hope.

To enable half star ratings in iTunes on your Mac you can run the following from the command line.

• defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE

Let you give a more specific rating than with single solid stars

As many of you know I use Twitter quite often, maybe a little too much even.  Most of this I can give thanks to TwitterFox since it is always there.
But along with TwitterFox, I still visit the actual twitter site from time to time and when I do these GreaseMonkey scripts spice it up a bit and make it a little more usable.

• Interceptor - This GreaseMonkey script lets you see where all of those TinyURL links will actually take you, helps so that you dont get Rick Roll’d or Goatse opening in your browser.

• Twitter Friend Name Suggester - When you have many friends this will help auto-complete there name when you are trying to reply to them.

• Twitpic Preview - I really don’t use this one that much as most people I know post links to their sites rather than to the images.  But when they are posted this will give you an image preview when people post images on TwitPic

• Twitter Live Update - This one is pretty neat.  It will auto load new tweets when you you are viewing Direct Messages, Replies, Etc.

I am sure there are plenty of other Twitter GreaseMonkey addons out there, but so far these are the ones that make my Twitter experiance much more enjoyable.

I have been meaning to post about htop for sometime now.. but for some reason me being lazy has stopped the posting process.  Anyways Htop is a really nice program to get the information that top would normally show you, but it looks a lot nicer.  I highly suggest taking a look at it.  I know Ubuntu has a package for it as well.

I dont really care for all the clutter that comes with having a dozen or so programs opened in Windows.  I did some seearching and came across TrayIt.  Trayit will allow you to place any programs that you want over neat the clock in windows.  This cuts back on the clutter of all the open programs.  takke a look, and its free to boot.

Just wanted to wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas.  Try to stay warm wherever you are, and please send me money so I can buy myself a new mac mini when it comes out.