The year 2008 is ending, and there is a flurry of blog posts with an end-of-year theme, be it resolutions, predictions, or something else for the new year.

I’m horrible at keeping resolutions and predicting, so for the year 2009, I’ll be, as the title so clearly states, tracking and graphing things.

Credit: Randall Munroe of xkcd.com. Click the image for the comic’s page.

So, what will I be tracking?

• Length of time spent playing BZFlag (an open source 3D tank battle game) — I really need to cut back on playing it. Tracked via this simple shell script I made.
• Length of time spent browsing the web. Tracked via Usage Counter Firefox Extension.
• Length of time computer is left on. Tracked via Unix ‘uptime’ program.
• Number of Delicious bookmarks posted in the year (via Delicious API app that is not yet completed).

I won’t be the only person tracking statistics in 2009. Yuvi outlines his plans to restart The StatBot, which is a website where he blog about all sorts of interesting statistics he measures.

Will you be tracking anything in 2009?