Christopher Elison

is sipping tea and working on stuff



I'm doing 42 things
 

Christopher Elison's Life List

  1. 1. Create a short URL service
    2 entries
    1 person
  2. 2. Develop a Firefox extension
    18 people
  3. 3. Get a job
    10,471 people
  4. 4. Develop my first C# application
    1 entry
    1 person
  5. 5. join a political party
    25 people
  6. 6. Buy 'Twitter Power' by Joel Comm
    1 person
  7. 7. buy a Blackberry
    14 people
  8. 8. Buy my first car
    99 people
  9. 9. Get a place of my own
    1 cheer
    59 people
  10. 10. Do volunteer work
    536 people
  11. 11. buy a Mac
    394 people
  12. 12. Start my own business
    2 entries
    8,574 people
  13. 13. Start my own software company
    57 people
  14. 14. Write an E-Book
    68 people
  15. 15. Join a gym
    582 people
  16. 16. Try Sushi
    240 people
  17. 17. Buy a Lexus
    1 entry
    26 people
  18. 18. set up a flight simulator rig
    1 cheer
    2 people
  19. 19. Own my own company
    77 people
  20. 20. Open a business bank account
    5 people
  21. 21. Buy a digital SLR camera
    74 people
  22. 22. open an ISA
    7 people
  23. 23. Save £5000
    13 people
  24. 24. Save £10,000
    9 people
  25. 25. Save £20,000
    2 people
  26. 26. Save £50,000
    3 people
  27. 27. Save £100,000
    4 people
  28. 28. Host my own Internet show
    1 person
  29. 29. Visit Rotterdam
    2 people
  30. 30. Register a trademark
    1 person
  31. 31. write my autobiography
    559 people
  32. 32. write a novel
    9,672 people
  33. 33. play a round of golf
    24 people
  34. 34. own a house
    2,028 people
  35. 35. Get a flat in Manchester City Centre
    1 person
  36. 36. Get a personalised registration
    1 person
  37. 37. become a property developer
    18 people
  38. 38. Go to the Big Chill festival
    5 people
  39. 39. Get private health insurance
    2 people
  40. 40. Rent an apartment in Amsterdam
    1 person
  41. 41. visit every town in Cheshire
    2 people
  42. 42. Sit on a jury
    86 people

How I did it
How to get a new laptop
It took me
1 day
It made me
Happy!


How to make my own business cards
It took me
1 day
It made me
Professional


How to complete my first freelance project
It took me
2 weeks
It made me
Accomplished


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Recent entries
Buy a Lexus
Kiss my face! 1 month ago

I quite fancy getting a Lexus IS 200 like Alan Partridge had, it’s a seriously good looking car, and I don’t quite know why else I want one, but rest assured I’m getting one, or possibly one of the new IS range, which admittedly are less aesthetically pleasing.



Develop my first C# application
Untitled 1 month ago

I’m working on my first C# program, an image host gallery ripper, it will hopefully automatically download an entire gallery of images from a specified URL and then put them in a folder on the user’s system.



Create a short URL service (read all 2 entries…)
Nearly there... 1 month ago

Beavering away with my project, I’ve stuck with it and the end is finally in sight, although inevitably at this time I begin to see things I could have done better or in a different way, although I should really see this as a good thing as it adds to my experience.

I had a brief idea of the functions I’d need, although getting round to actually coding the backend stuff I soon realised that there’d be a lot more coding than I anticipated.

All that remains after completing the remaining two functions is to undertake some serious testing, cleanup some code and prettify the UI. Once that is done, I’ll be ready to deploy, crack open a beer and perhaps even give my chair a tilt!



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