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Taken this morning. Really glad I made the effort to wake up extra early this morning.

I’m sure I’ll get the rest of the photos up on Flickr at some point.

2010 is here, and apparently, it hails the beginning of a new decade. With it, the new year brings renewed hope and revitalized vigor to tackle the problems and challenges this year will present. It will be exciting times and I look forward to it.

Besides, these few nascent hours of 2010 are already tons better than most of the previous year.

Let me indulge myself and take a moment to make some forecasts, predictions and resolutions for this year. Maybe in another 365 days, I can come back and see how I fared.

Forecasts & Predictions

• Against the Bank of Canada’s best wishes and efforts, the Canadian dollar will reach and surpass parity.
• Despite that, manufacturing will continue to decline.
• Canadian entertainment and media industry will be quite successful this year, but will probably go through a dramatic shift in production or distribution.
• Facebook will continue its downward spiral through more “liberal” privacy policies. Nobody notices.
• It will be an awesome year for mobile – new telcos, new hardware running Android, more ways to make money in the space (advertising, apps, sponsored usage, etc.), and new ways to compute mobilry (tablets, wearable computers).
• Online advertising will keep growing (hurray!), but will bring in more competition who don’t know what they’re doing (boo), providing opportunities to teach and grow (ok?).
• Canada will win a couple of medals at the Winter Olympics, though probably only a silver in Mens Hocket.

Resolutions

• Make a real and substantial effort to go up to KW to visit.
• Travel. A lot.
• Regain a positive outlook on people and humanity
• Continue to pursue professional designations and provide leadership in the workplace.
• Let go of things a bit more. Understand I can only affect so much change, but do my best in what I can.

That’s probably a good place to start. 2010 will be a good year. I’ll make sure this will be the case.

Happy New Year, and have a great one.

scwl