The List.
What is "The List"? Its what I should be doing. Its my guide to help me achieve my goals. Its my medium-term to-do list. On the scale of 1 month to 2 years.
Beehive Games - write the next game, for devices like the Clie UX-50 a 3d world based on physics. completely. everything is made of a basic unit (i call it a pebble). everything that exists in the world is made of pebbles, with gravity, a "sticky force", and some hack for light. The game will be a mario-world cartoonish-looking "world building" game. allow a mulitplayer element (bluetooth) if possible. Daily Wireless - Change the front page look to minimize the impact of the lead banner ad. Have historical articles presented by topic. Add much more benefit to user registration. Personal Telco - Continute with the rocky butte hub. Add IPv6, get my own antenna mounted. Add a login management system to the nodes - PAM with mysql backing probably. Get nocat logging remotely to bone. Portland State U. - Start master's degree classes. Study scalable/distributed data structures. eg Skipnet, Bit torrent, Google filesystem Suburb site - Create a website that creates community amongst resitdents on the same street or in the same neighborhood. AP Radar - UI improvements to put more info about the local network interface. display default gateway. ping default gateway and display latest round trip time. display IP as IP/netmask-length. Less serious project ideas Vida Cafe City - buy oregon desert land off ebay. Build a city/nerd mecca. They will come. Emphasis on renewable power resources. It costs nothing to live there but you must be invited. Yard robot - a soekris plus harddrive plus R/C car battery packs plus electric motors plus wheels plus a grass-cutting blade. This thing "lives" in your yard. It had a little doghouse to return home to for protection from the weather and recharging. It constantly roams the yard, keeping it in a continuous state of mowed. e-Trike - bulid a recumbent trike. Fly-by-wire. Not pedal powered. Propane/Steam engine or something. A full enclosure with an LCD display/keyboard in view of the driver.