I resolve not to make any resolutions this year. I usually end up breaking them, and don't want to be disappointed in myself.

Extreme Programming

Probably The Beatles. My mom was always a big fan, and has several of their albums on vinyl, so that was the first non-Classical music I really listened to much. I never really had much vinyl of my own; my first record was a recording of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town.

BRACKET!

I can't count the number of times I've screwed up a shot by under- or over-exposing it. Take three pictures, one a stop over what your light meter tells you, one spot on, and one a stop below.

And of course, just take lots of pictures. This is easier and cheaper now with digital photography; it used to get quite expensive with film. With digital, you can always delete the bad pictures (and there will be lots of them), but the more pictures you take, the more will be worth keeping, and the better you will get at taking pictures.