2010 Year in Review

My yearly recap of what’s happened in my life over the last year.

• Twitters first Developer Conference in San Francisco, Chirp and got to see family in the area

• My first cruise- - a 7 day Royal Caribbean cruise to Haiti, Jamaica, The Grand Cayman Islands and Cozumel with Marilyn

• Went horseback riding on a somewhat wild horse named Alarma in Cozumel

• Climbed a waterfall in Jamaica.

• Scalloping at Homosassa Springs

• Crab Feast in St. Petersburg!

• Stayed at the Don Cesar in St. Petersburg for Nate and Bekah’s Wedding

• Went to Miami Beach for Nate’s bachelor party and stayed at the iconic Eden Roc

• Westin Channelside and Hard Rock Casino for IZEA’s retreat

• Started a 4’x9’ vegetable garden

• Began composting

• Bought a wheelbarrow

• Had our first yard sale at this house

• Cleaned out the garage to where we can actually use it

• Dropped cable TV in favor of using Plex, Netflix and Hulu

• Digitized most my DVDs and media. Still a few to go, but the bulk of the work is over

• Slowly increasing savings and investments on Vanguard and following investment advice from John Bogle

• Had a major disagreement with GE over them charging me $400 for something they broke. Complained on Twitter and they resolved it before my check was even cashed.

• Developed an appreciation for beer

• Went on an indoor plant buying frenzy resulting in many casualties. Only the strong survive.

• Played on my works kickball team with Marilyn

• Flaming Lips and Imogen Heap concerts at Hard Rock Orlando

• Got Disney passes and went to Epcot’s Food and Wine Festival way too many times

• Saw Jonathan Coulton and Paul and Storm at The Social

• Saw Rick Springfield and Boyz 2 Men at Epcot (but we missed Hanson)

• Largest holiday party so far over at our place

• Tron Legacy Midnight release with Marilyn and friends

• Lots of movies. My favorites that came out this year were Inception, Exit Through the Gift Shop and The Social Network

• Favorite TV shows discovered were Breaking Bad, House, Jericho and The Colony

• Played through Mass Effect twice and Mass Effect 2 almost twice and loved them both

• Thanksgiving at Marilyn’s Moms, with firetruck and family

• Went to Plazaween in costume with Marilyn and friends

• Launched Cost Per Click for SponsoredTweets

• Helped get SocialSpark V2 launched and did a tiny bit of work on WeReward

• Started organizing hack days and lunch-and-learns at work, we even had a chance for a hack week!

• Completely dropped organized hosting on Dreamhost in favor of S3, Posterous and Github.

• Launched MovieFly , then a few months later Miso launched

• Changed AdamFortuna.com into a splash page instead of a blog

• Started a mobile blog for pictures taken from my phone

• Moved ArcadeFly over to Heroku

• Bought an iPad, a new shuffle running and upgraded to a iPhone4

• Started learning iOS development

• Started working on a new site in Rails 3 that should launch next year

• Messed around with some new technology over the year including node.js, redis, websockets, css3, html and mongo db

• Upgraded to Road Runner Lightning, and slowly backing everything I have up to BackBlaze

As for new years resolutions? Probably increase savings a bit more, eat a little healthier and spend less time on the couch. Like to eat out less and get better at creating the things I love to eat and drink from scratch including salad dressing, sauces and brewing beer- - and maybe later on wine. If there’s one thing I want to do in 2011 though, it’d be launch the site I’m working on in my spare time, and do it right.