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This year I fixed a lot of bugs after looking at diffs, but to get diffs you have to make changes (or have non-determinism).  I guess this post is a review of changes and diffs from the year.

Changes that seem good:

• drinking tea for caffeine instead of coke
• objects instead of modules + functors in my ocaml code (even though lots of people seem to hate objects in ocaml -- I still hate objects for certain things)
• turn during snowboarding w/out swinging arms
• first stay on the East coast
• first trip to Europe
• first internship (even though it was still a research environment)
• played cricket for the first time
• bought a digital camera
• bought a mouse for my laptop
• more vim (in addition to emacs)
  
• read some decent books

Changes that aren't as good:

• even less contact with old friends (at least we're on facebook?)
• less cooking
• less movie watching? maybe that's not true
• less math

Changes that go both ways:

• new office
• more time in the office
• started this blog, and filled it with crap that I probably feel differently about now
• new template for this blog
  
• started using other web-apps like recommendation-based web radio
  
• testing Safari for windows

Changes I'd like to see:

• reverse some of the negative changes
• waste less time online
• waste less time offline, testing different applications (like Safari)
• start working on things earlier
• be more responsive with email
• have more interesting things to put in this blog (i.e., live a more interesting life)
• more importantly, have more interesting things to talk about
• draw more
  
• write more
• learn a music instrument
• do more math
• do anything to work more of the brain

So after I see the diff I'm supposed to do some kind of analysis, decide what's worth fixing, and end up fixing a fraction of the things that are worth fixing.