RESOLUTIONS : 2011 : January Update

As I mentioned here, I have made some resolutions for 2011. As with any good task list, it is worthless unless you take a look at it periodically and update it :). I am going to publish an update on each one of the resolutions every month. Here goes the first one

1. Loose weight (AKA loose gut)
   • I am practicing part of the diet proposed by Tim Ferris in his Four Hour Body book. I am eating 2 egg whites for breakfast and than eating a small meal every 4 hours. I haven’t gone completely into the whole “white” carb diet he proposes though.
   • I also started tracking my weight and diet religiously on a daily basis. This is another of Tim’s ideas. He says that by tracking your weight everyday, you subconsciously start making better choices in terms of the food you eat. I this it makes sense :). I am tracking the data in a Google spreadsheet. Here is a chart of my weight for the last one month I started out at 194 lbs and am not at 188 lbs. Hopefully I will be able to keep this downward trend.
   • I also started working out (thanks to Jhanvi). We are working out at least 2 times a week.
2. Increase web traffic to kudithipudi.org
• I started posting more content on the site. I posted 8 articles in January.
• No particular strategy other than writing more content, which will hopefully bring more traffic.
• Have the following topics to write on (and some of them have been pending for a long time)
  • Moving your life to the cloud
  • Setting up a virtual server on the Rackspace Cloud Infrastructure
  • Configuring syslog-ng
  • Configuring nginx to reduce resource utilization on Linux server
3. Achieve CISSP certification
• No progress on this one at all.
4. Go on a vacation
• Jhanvi and I planned to go to the travel and adventure expo, that was held in Rosemont last weekend, but we got too lazy :).
• Our trip to India (and it doesn’t count as a vacation 🙁 ) is planned for April.

Progress on 2 out of the 4 resolutions!!.. Not bad :).

PS : Thanks for all the support I have been getting on the first resolution :). I didn’t realize the situation was so bad :).