Personal Renaissance
To-do lists piss me off. Not having them, but keeping items on them. I have all of these great ideas but they come so fast and furious that I can barely get one idea fleshed out before the next idea comes along: tech, art, diabolical plans-- you name it. I have a whole bunch of ideas and I have put a halt on new things until the old stuff is out of the way.
Here's the stuff on the go with me now:
Here's the stuff on the go with me now:
- I got WAPAlerts.com out the door. It's now merrily chugging away sucking down RSS feeds and turning them into posts. All filtered and screened as I set-up.
- I went to my orientation meeting for Cinevic. Well, I went; I still have to do volunteer hours and then pay up.
- I posted items to Etsy. They're weird, they're made of sculpey. They're all me.
- I started playing with AJAX. First thing out the gate: AJAX tie-in of XML to the Google Maps API.
- I've been actively working up my Linux/Apache skill sets. It's kind of like pulling teeth, but I only have so many teeth to pull.
- I got a new laptop. It's capable of most of the cool stuff, I hoped to do. I got Civ4 for Christmas and now I can play it. Sooner or later, I will write mods for Civ4 as the scenarios are written in Python and XML.
- I was tapped as an interview source for NY Times piece. They were looking for people who thought they were able to overeat after discovering that a fat gene may be behind their tubby proportions. Sorry: alcoholics know they can't drink. Fat gene holders should know they can't have a triple burger..... mmmm.... A&W grandpa burger.... mmmm....
- I've been doing an Arts & Entertainment column for the West Coaster for the last month. An hour or so of each Wednesday night. Not that bad a deal.
- Follow through with the Cinevic membership process. Really. It's only been three years in the offing.
- I bought a copy of the new edition of the Call of Cthulhu RPG: my plan is to game a little and write another adventure for Chaosium.
- Work on a project that includes XML, Flash and AJAX. I have a friend in India that I may tap for aid. I also may write up a project plan and see who would be out there who can help. If you're reading this and you either like coding with Flash with XML; or you have an artistic flair and a love of Flash: contact me :)
- Work on an admin system for the AJAX/XML map building tool.
- Replace some non-critical systems at work with new tools. I am just going to put them in place as time allows. If they're liked, great; if not, I'll consider them practical experiments. I'm going to do these outside of regular hours and not let them cut in on my regular work projects.
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And I am glad you are having a good run at things. It makes our world a fun place to be. :)