Monthly Archives: January 2010

Even Woody Guthrie had New Year’s Resolutions

We’re big on setting New Year’s Resolutions and sharing them with each other, but we sometimes forget that our role models also did the same thing.  Here are Woody Guthrie’s top 10 New Year’s Resolutions from 1943:

  1. Work more and better
  2. Work by a schedule
  3. Wash teeth if any
  4. Shave
  5. Take bath
  6. Eat good – fruit – vegetables – milk
  7. Drink very scant if any
  8. Write a song a day
  9. Wear clean clothes – look good
  10. Shine shoes

He made 33 resolutions in all, you can read the rest here.  We’d like to think that Woody would be an active user of 43 Things, were he alive today.

[via Scott Berkun]

Site outage Sunday morning

broken robot

How’s your 2010 going so far?  We hope you’re sticking to your New Years Resolutions!

Sunday morning starting at 2:00am Pacific time, we’re bringing all the sites down for database maintenance.  The outage may last up to 4 hours, but probably won’t take that long.  We’re sorry for the inconvenience, and we hope we picked a time that will impact as few people as possible.

update: maintenance completed without any problems.  The sites were down for about 2.5 hours.  Thanks for your patience (especially those further East from us who had to go without 43 Things in the middle of their days!)

[Photo by andrewscott]

Holiday Cheers

Josh thinks we get more cards than Google.

Robot Holiday Cards 2009

Thanks for the cards, and we hope you’re finding success in the New Year so far!