Back on the 3rd January I made 10 predictions for the forthcoming year (here). I thought I’d take a look back and see how accurate I was.
1. A day won’t go by without me messing with my IPhone to the point of obsession (and beyond).
This one is certainly true, although it wasn’t so much a prediction as it was a fact. If it had buttons then they would have worn out.
2. I’ll get angry on a weekly basis over internet forums discussing either “why UK comedy is shit and US comedy is great” or “why US comedy is shit and UK comedy is great”, especially those contributors who state opinions with Hitler-like zeal.
Anger isn’t very healthy and so I’ve avoided forums wherever possible. I would be very angry if I were to read them, though
3. This year’s ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here’ will feature someone putting their hand in to some insects whilst squealing.
I didn’t watch a second of it, but I still know that I was right. This doesn’t make me a genius.
4. The longer that Liverpool stay in the title race, the more I’ll turn in to a nervous wreck. If they’re still in with a chance of being champions in the last week of the season then I will have to be hospitalised.
Well, Liverpool stayed in with a chance of winning the title until the last week or so, but I probably wasn’t as nervous about it as I thought I would be. It probably helped that we were reliant on Manchester United to slip up, and so destiny was never in our own hands. This season my nerves are all based on just how badly the Reds will do.
5. Football pundits will give opinions that are so black and white, in order to make mundane incidents seem ‘controversial’, that they will cease to have any meaning.
This will be true until the end of time, or until the end of football. Whichever comes first. I did some heavy-duty slagging off of pundits when they were all writing Liverpool off at the start of the season. Sadly, they were correct.
6. I’ll buy books at a rate faster than I can read them.
I’ve not kept track of this throughout the year, but ever since I’ve been writing Reading Habits, I’d say I was just about breaking even.
7. I’ll compulsively update my Amazon recommendations every dinner time while at work, not satisfied until I’ve checked up to at least 500 suggestions. Eventually it will recommend the perfect book. Hopefully.
I don’t do this as much as I used to, mainly because I’m messing about with blog related stuff. It’s still not suggested the perfect book yet.
8. Sky + HD will continue to be an enigma, even after I’ve had it installed. The question will go unanswered; is it the greatest thing ever, or slightly disappointing?
I got Sky HD a couple of weeks before making the prediction and it is semi-true. Some programmes look amazing on it and some programmes look slightly better than before. What makes it harder to judge is that you get used to watching in HD and so some of its impact is lost. It’s still great though. I have to tell myself that because it costs so much.
9. I sadly won’t blog as much as I’d like to and then feel really pissed off that I didn’t, resulting in the odd week throughout the year when I’ll post every day for a week or so, before giving up for a couple of months.
Well, it’s been a year of two halves (literally). There was the four month hiatus I, inexplicably, took from both blogs, January to May. It looked like the prediction was about to be breathtakingly accuarate, and then something happened: I started writing regularly. I’ve actually done daily updates since 14th August, which is quite impressive (to me).
10. Computers will become so cheap that you’ll get one free with Saturday’s Daily Mail. This one is more of a punt than the others.
Well this didn’t come true – well, I assume it didn’t. However, September saw the first video advertisement in a magazine (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8258307.stm) and that’s sort of what I meant. Honest.
And that’s that. Not very interesting. I will endeavour to make my predictions for 2010 a little more thrilling. Or I just won’t bother doing them.
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