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Just like I did last year, here are my resolutions for 2012. They are stated in a way that makes them testable, either I achieve them or I don't. Based on what I learned from the past year, I also decided to break larger resolutions into smaller chunks so that progress can be tracked.

Over the past few months I started doing music more actively again, with a couple shows and regular appearances at the various open stage nights in Munich. After a while people, started to ask where they can find me online, so I decided to use my domain florianloretan.com for music, and keep happypixels.com for my blog about web development and random personal stuff. As usual, building stuff for yourself takes forever, but I finally have something that works for me. Check it out at florianloretan.com!

I have been inspired by various bloggers to spend some time thinking about the past year and review all the things that happened, what went well, what could be improved, and what I want to change in the future. I've already jotted down my goals for 2011, but this is for another post.

2010 was my first full calender year as a freelancer, and even if I've always had more than enough work, the year started with some cash-flow issues. After a reputable company put me in a lot of trouble by paying my work for a medium-sized project 6 months late, I definitely learned my lesson.

I love music, I love making music and I love listening to music, but I always hate the question "what do you listen to?" I don't want to answer with the elitist "I listen to bands that don't even exist yet", but I still feel like there is more to it than just "Indie/Alternative Rock". I tried getting statistics from my last.fm account into wordle to see how I can express this visually. The result is interesting and looks pretty cool, here's how I did it.