I usually hate filling forms, everyone does. Loan forms, job applications, tax forms, university forms, they build up.

However, sometimes there are forms to fill that I cna enjoy. I recently filled in the evaluation form for this year's Imagine Cup final down London way; what should have been a few hundred words turned into a couple thousand. It was all retrospective though, and therefore fairly easy. The most interesting one I've done so far this year has been the MSP application form.

In filling it in, I realised how much I wanted to do this year and how much I actually managed to schedule. And in filling it in, I came up with a couple of new things that I want to do next year, regardless of my participation on the programme.

For instance, at Edinburgh there is little MS presence at all. We're part of MSDN AA, though have no access to ELMS. Our degrees are accredited by the BCS, but no mention of de facto standards and industry certification is made in the required Professional Issues course for that accreditation. I don't mean just MS certification here, that wouldn't make a great deal of sense, but proper coverage of all of the available options.

So, my mission next year will at least be to have the discussion, regardless of its outcome. That on top of a couple of other little ventures I have should see this being an interesting, and certainly busy year. So to maximise productivity I was considering a couple of purchases.

I want me a GPS unit, preferably bluetooth. There haven't been many uses of it outside of journey planning, so I wouldn't mind exploring what you can do with a location-aware application. Hell, location-aware web services, why not? Then I reckon a TFT would do nicely, my desk this year's a tad smaller than last. Oh and those X2's, I could do with one of those. In a new Shuttle box of course, dripping with caviar...

I'll stick to just paying the rent for now.