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M’k. I’m wanting to get back into the ‘real’ programming scene again. (PHP is simply scripting - they way I do it at least.) I got myself an MSDN copy of Visual Studio.NET and I want to learn C#. But, since I’m the kind of person that needs a goal, I decided after I finish a ‘Hello World’ program, I’m going to develop something of use. Here are my ideas so far…

• Full screen video conferencing. Apple has it, we should to. I’d intergrate it with MSN Messenger somehow, ’cause that’s what I like. (But maybe I’d develop it with plugins or whatever so that you could use it on ICQ and AIM too. O.K… Not AIM. I’d never instal that on my machine. *shudder*)
• Some kind of scripting program. When [action] happens, do [action] type thing. This would NEED plugins. some examples:
  • When [I walk away from the computer (Bluetooth aware)], [lock the workstation]
  • When [I receive email], [notify me on (my cell, my terminal, my IM, etc)]
  • When [A new media file is found], [organize it in my music and video folders]
  • When [The mouse moves (after 10 minutes of inactivity)] or [My Documents are accessed], [Take a snapshot using the WebCam]
• A remote control server/client. Instead of connecting to a computer via Terminal Services, you’d be able to use this to send commands and macros and such. The server would run on Win2000/XP/2003/Longhorn, but the client could be on any Windows machine, or via a webpage, or on a pocketpc/palm/java-enabled phone

Eventually, I also want to start work on AViE, which I’m thinking will be more of a program than an Operating System, since Longhorn is going to have most of the stuff that I was thinking about. (Communication Services, Database File Management, Hardware-accelerated UI) I hope the UI will allow for some real 3D graphics overtop the desktop, and I really hope it will support those 3D LCD Screens, ’cause by the time I’m done AViE, those’ll be common place.

So yeah. Vote! Leave a comment telling me what you think would be the most useful program to have. (Either way, I’m ALSO going to do the full-screen video chat, ’cause I mean come’on. It’s beyond possible. And I don’t wanna get a Mac until MSN Messenger supports the 31 new features that it has on the PC. Yes. That IS my major reason for not getting a Mac.)

Let’s get back to Biblical standards of marriage. How much for your daughter?

I’ve updated the site from XHTML 1.0 Transitional to XHTML 1.0 Strict. There were only a few things that I had to change, like changing all the target=”_blank”s to rel=”external”s, and there may still be artifacts laying around, but I never wanted “Transitional” code in the first place.

I’ve added some javascript to compensate for XHTMLs shortcomings. (HTML isn’t a programming language, it’s simply markup.) but everything should work as it should. Let me know if anything’s wrong.

(Oh, and the site looks best in Mozilla and Opera, ’cause they handle PNGs well. Maybe IE SP2 will fix that.)

I can’t believe anyone would be able to do what this mom did. And I use the term mom only in it’s biological meaning. But that kid’s great for surviving.

via: Stupid Evil Bastard (Yes, this news is a few months old, but I just read it and found it to be… woah…)