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New Year's Resolutions (and why I don't make them)

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i chi!

Now that the traditional pleasanteries are taken care of, on with the blog...

I'm not generally a big fan of New Year resolutions, for two main reasons:

1. If there's something you really need to change in your life, it seems better to change it right away rather than put it off until the start of next year.
2. For most people, resolutions usually only seem to last for at most a week before they get broken in any case.

This year I'm not planning any major structural or thematic changes (although I'm thinking about adding one or two new categories soon), but I'm hoping to blog on a slightly more regular basis than I have done previously. I realise that I'm not going to be successful at trying to blog daily, but I'm hoping to get at least one entry posted per week, with some extra posts when I have a bit more to say. I might also relax my self-imposed rule against posting consecutively to the same blog category, as I sometimes find I have several posts worth of material about one thing without necessarily having anything much to say about anything else.

Although I've filed this entry under miscellaneous, I can't resist a short foray into computer talk to mention that I've written a little Python script to help me keep track of how my blog entries are distributed by category. It simply counts up the number of posts in each category and prints out a total for each, plus a grand total. The script is still fairly primitive, so I don't guarantee that the results are completely accurate. In any case, this might be an appropriate point to provide a summary of the currently existing categories in my blog along with the total number of posts to date:

Cymraeg: 6 posts

This is the category for posts written in Welsh, although sometimes with a translation or at least a summary in English for the sake of readers who don't speak Welsh. The posts can be on pretty much any topic, so a cynic mightview it as a sneaky way of getting more miscellaneous posts in without making that category predominate too much!

Computer: 14 posts

The most popular category to date. This covers anything relating to computers and technology - especially my random forays into programming.

Language: 6 posts

Musings about human languages, usually the ones I'm trying to learn (an ever-changing set). I'm also interested in computer languages, but they go into the computer category.

Music: 12 posts

Mostly my own musical exploits, but also the place for discussion of bands I've been listening to or interesting factoids about music or instruments.

Misc: 12 posts

This is the catch-all category for all posts that don't fit elsewhere; which really enables me to blog about everything! The fact that it's one of the most popular categories suggests that perhaps my category structure isn't the most efficient that it could be, or maybe just that I like to blog about very random things.

Knitting: 12 posts

For a while this was the mainstay of my blog, but my knitting (and crochet) activities have been fairly quiet so far this winter (I've never done so much in the summer in any case). There probably will be a bit more before too long though.

Food: 10 posts

Here's where I talk about interesting things I've been eating and drinking. In particular, what I've been cooking, baking or brewing.

The most likely contender for a new category in the near future would be gardening, as I'm hoping to get to work in my garden a bit earlier this year so I have more chance of actually growing something. Another possibility is for a reading/viewing category that I could use for book and film reviews. I'm hoping to avoid getting too many categories, though, so doubtless the miscellaneous section will continue to be well populated.

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