Well, since Izzy asked I will try, although it's hard to do this kind of thing as it means making choices I prefer to leave up in the air... ;-)

(I've made numbered lists just for ease of counting, not to indicate any order.)

Seven things to do before I die.

1. Cycle the route of the Tour de France on a leisure tour that follows the race.
   
2. Take some really good photographs at least once again in my life.
   
3. Visit Angkor Wat, also see the Taj Mahal with adult eyes. (Lots of other travel issues too.)
   
4. Take up the piano again.
   
5. Learn Bengali properly (and ideally some other languages) (French, German, Spanish, Mandarin)
   
6. Change the world in a positive way (perhaps play a role in really making a "European civil sphere" happen.
   
7. Manage to organize a loving relationship situation that doesn't involve being stuck on the other side of the world to my love.

Seven things I cannot do (to my regret) (mixing regrets of past ambitions and lack of talents)

1. Take pictures at a football World Cup.
   
2. Become a racing driver.
   
3. Sing
   
4. Play most sports with any skill
   
5. Turn some of my instinctive understandings into models and evidence to persuade people.
   
6. Be as tolerant (or indeed as ethical in almost every way) as I wish to be.
   
7. Easily have faith. (In all sorts of ways.)

Seven things that attract me to places I've enjoyed living (numerous places around the world) and what I hope to find again:

1. Good people
   
2. Some nice cafes/bars, open late.
   
3. Some nice green areas around (a park will do for me)
   
4. Good public transport
   
5. Museums, some feeling of cultural life
   
6. Not too small
   
7. Connection to the rest of the world

Seven things I say most often:

1. What do you mean, exactly?
   
2. How does that work?
   
3. I don't know, but I can find out.
   
4. Tell me more about that.
   
5. As I see it, the underlying problem is...
   
6. I think we need to define this carefully...
   
7. If we want to fix it, we need to acknowledge...

Seven (fiction) books or series that I love:
(I actually read mostly non-fiction, but I don't return to them again and again, they are more one shot.)

1. Terry Pratchett Discworld books (not all, but most)
   
2. Lord of the Rings
   
3. The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie (a trilogy) by Agota Kristof
   
4. Dirk Gently books by Douglas Adams
   
5. Magician by Raymond Feist
   
6. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
   
7. The works of Jules Vernes

Seven Movies:

1. Irma Vep
   
2. Cabaret
   
3. Unforgiven
   
4. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir)
   
5. Pyaasa and Kaagaz ke Phool (Guru Dutt)
   
6. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
   
7. Spartacus, Lawrence of Arabia, Monty Python, Sergio Leone, too many others to mention or decide!

Seven People (who have not posted yet or been mentioned by someone else, I second all the other mentions so far and encourage anyone else to post as well!)

1. Drew J Jones
   
2. ManfromMiddletown
   
3. Migeru
   
4. asdf
   
5. gradinski chai
   
6. IdiotSavant
   
7. soj

Eight! Seven articles I should write for ET sooner or later.

1. Exploring the British attitude to Europe
   
2. Thinking about the basis of a future European foreign policy stance
   
3. Some issues arising out of my experiences in the UK NHS
   
4. Outsiders, travellers and ET
   
5. An attempt to get to grips with current economics
   
6. Racism and other prejudices, some personal views
   
7. Organisation, "Fordism/Taylorism", "Knowledge Work" and my (fairly boring) MBA dissertation