Look, Progress Meters!

In the past when I had set a goal for myself, I would often make a list. As I crossed off items and visually see the progress I was making, it'd motivate me to push myself right up until the end. Hoping to take advantage of that kind of motivational impetus, I installed some fancy-looking progress meters for us on the right sidebar.

I've turned on admin rights for each of you so when you're logged in and looking at the main blog page, you should see little screwdriver and wrench icons next to each sidebar gadget, indicating you can edit them. Click the edit icon for the progress meters, scroll down until you see something like, $('alecbar'), replacing alec with your own name, and then edit the value under it to indicate the progress number you want to show.

Of course, it'll be up to you to decide how you'll want to factor your completion percentage. For me, my goal is to get through this Objective-C 2.0 book, which is 500 pages even. So for every five pages I can get through and comprehend, that's a 1% gain towards my goal. At the end of my day, I'll come here and adjust my progress meter accordingly.