I’ve found that when you keep secret goals you are less likely to accomplish them. Of course this isn’t true for everyone but part of success is learning your limits/uniqueness. Me being one of those people I decided to publicly post my 2012 goals list so I can not only keep posted on the progress but also be held accountable for any that I mess up.

Would love to hear others thoughts on public goal lists. For now, here is mine:

2012 Goals List

01. Cook 50 healthy and new meals
02. Lose 25 pounds before wedding
03. Learn Portuguese. Finish Rosetta Stone Level 1
04. Improve my firearm proficiency. Visit range at least 25 times.
05. Continue to grow PixelBit and work with more freelancers.
06. Pay off ALL wedding expenses BEFORE wedding date.
07. Put away more money towards a down payment on a house.
08. Write 50 new engaging articles for Scriptplayground.
09. Learn a new programming language by building something.

As you can see some of these goals are much larger than 2012 but a new year is a perfect time to start new things.

Its been written many times across the web before but it needs to continue as long as the SOPA bill is still alive.

The internet will NOT exist as we know it.
Sites like (YouTube, Redditt, Digg, Facebook, Google, etc…). These sites will come under fire to the point where people will lose their access and ultimately companies like the RIAA will force their hand and big websites will cave. We’ve seen it in small form with the RIAA/MPAA and online piracy of content. You know, when ICE comes in and seizes a domain name? Well now that will be on a global scale.

How about when Viacom went after YouTube under the DMCA? It can/will happen.

Still don’t see the issue?
Okay, think Chinese-style censorship across the entire WWW (World Wide Web aka “Internet”).

The recent “hold” on voting until the New Year should not be seen as a victory because they are likely trying to remove exposure and then secretly pass it while everyone is busy with a new topic. Also keep in mind thanks in part to “line item veto” not existing the government can and probably will attach the bill to a much more favorable bill. Say maybe a two month delay of federal taxes?

We need change across the entire system but for now lets work on keeping the internet because if SOPA passed its possible a blog post like this could cause the agencies to come and force my and anyone elses blog offline for “infringing”.

What can you do?
Voice your concern, post about it, call your political office and write to Congress. Thats physically write a letter to your senator or governor. An email is nice but will likely get caught in a spam filter and/or be seen by some intern who will delete it. A letter is harder to “lose”.

Why should you care?
At this point if you still don’t get it but work or play on the internet I feel sorry for you. This SOPA bill has the potential to not only kill the internet but could harm potential web developers/designers, such as myself!

Earlier today I noticed an update from a Mr. Dan Rubin about an app called Duet. I figured oh great, another mobile app I have no use for but I took a look and was hooked by the UI. Its almost silk like. I then downloaded the free app and took it for a spin.

I started by poking around the features though to get most you need to create a free account. However you can start to create a “Duet” whilst creating an account. I created one with my fiancé as I thought messaging a random person would be fairly creepy. Especially with an app focusing on intimate/personal communication. Of course this app is not only for love meetings, it could honestly be used to meet up for a business talk, though i’m not sure why you’d need photos/video of that!

Right now Duet is still pretty new, but i’d like to see a few things modified. First one would be to use Facebook/Twitter for registration, I hate creating new accounts that I must remember passwords for. The second would be the ability to create a Duet as a guest using your device Id that you could update later on.

Duet is currently only available for iPhone though you’ll find a note mentioning additional platforms/devices are coming soon.

“Coming soon to other platforms and devices.”

Overall its a pretty neat concept and seeing as it was created by Crush+Lovely its no surprise the design is amazing.

Go download the app & start your own one-to-one connections.