Another filling. Not something I relish, thankfully a very small one - which will hopefully turn out to be the source of my dental discomfort. One good thing about dentistry is the increasing use of technology, it's surprising how a pc connected x-ray device can take your mind off things (if you're a geek at least!!).

Also there is an obvious gap between blog entries, the reason for which was my birthday. Not I hasten to add because I took a 2 week bender. I always find my birthday troublesome, and by troublesome I mean I drop into a lethargic, mental abyss. It's been happening for years, can't seem to shake it. However sufficient time has passed this year, and we are returning to relatively normal service.

There seems to have been a bit of a meme doing the rounds recently (Justice Gray gets the *blame* for starting it, and Scott Hanselman for highlighting it on his podcast), "Become a better developer in 6 months". Now that seems a laudable goal, and ineed one I could certainly subscribe to - so I'm going to throw my virtual headwear into the ring, but with some caveats.

Whilst becoming a better developer is certainly something I'd like to achieve, I think there are some additional "personal development" goals I'm going to throw in for good measure. If I'm going to the effort of actually documenting a task, might aswell make most use of it possible. So in addition to the developer goal, I'm adding a mental and a physical task too.

I'll flesh-out the more precise details of this campaign on Friday 7th September 2007 (... and in doing so I'm completing one goal, setting specific targets and acheiving them!!)