And to keep on with tradition here's my New Year 2002 mixtape. And you can listen to it too! You'll probably enjoy it if you are into funk, reggae and 70s black music in general. A few odd moments too, but you'll be finding out about those.¶

New Year's Resolutions:

• I shall not quit college this time.
• I shall actually buy at least one record this year.
• I shall become unbeatable at billiards.
• I shall prevent my sister from becoming a spoiled irritating child.
• I shall do only the necessary webpage redesigns; and I shall terminate pointless websites.
• I shall be having a drink at the Guernica Caffe the first day it re-opens.¶

New Year's Predictions:

• There won't happen any gruesome terrorist attacks (except for the usual Hamas/ETA/Real IRA). Those will happen in 2003 or in 2004, when people consider the world safe again.
• Business will be back to usual, so there will be no war against Iraq, Sudan or Somalia. However, the war against privacy and civil liberties will continue, just in case.
• However, India and Pakistan will probably nuke each other.
• More of the same in Israel. Until 3002, probably.
• Nature will continue having its revenge at Man. Floods, stroms, heat waves, volcanoes, etc. No surprise if L.A., San Francisco and Seattle disappear off the face of the Earth in a gigantic earthquake (well, at least that would take care of Microsoft).
• Anti-globalization and being a leftist becomes unfashionable. Protests will happen, but only with a few hundred die-hard communists.
• Right-wing parties take power all over Europe. This will eventually lead Europe to demographic disaster (because of their immigration restritions) and chaotic corruption, but 2002 is too soon for people to see this.
• More of the same unsavoury justice towards free speech, copyright liberation and privacy activists. Bad justice also against atheists and artistic types.
• Anti-Bush sentiment arises in the US, as the media try to stifle it.
• Portugal gets sent home in the World Cup after the first round, after drawing against Poland and losing against South Korea and the USA.¶

The Euro: I still don't wave any Euros in my wallet. More updates on this after I go buy the newspaper.¶

2002 is a World Cup year. Hurrah!¶