:: Everyday ::

I’m going to Winnipeg on Tuesday to do Tachyon training on Wednesday. It’ll be fun. Yes, I’ma geek. I’ll do a professional Satellite Internet page for Marquis AVU once I get back, detailing the differences between DirecWay and Tachyon, and what each system can and can’t do.

Earth Hums.

Well, of course she does, she doesn’t know the words!

What? Just me? OK.

Seriously, though. If they could find a way to piggyback a signal on this vibration, it might mean that we could trasmit data through the Earth, instead of around her, which is an interesting thought, although I hope not a harmful one. If Romanowicz’s mechanism is the right one, and the vibrations follow winter (solstice?) It might not be possible, but either way this hum opens doors.

Rebuild cookie. She’s been running slow. I need to find a way to do a clean install on a machine without a CD-ROM. I’m looking to use Grandpa’s computer and do a network install. I hope I’ll be able to format this. It’s soooo slow.

Work the the L’azia backend. After I’m done rebuilding, it’ll be easy, but there might not be enough time to finish it. I hope there will be though.

Work on mikevinnish.net. Of course, if I have enough time to even start on that today, I’ll be an awsome example of geek power.

UPDATE: Heh. I got the permalinks working first. I like having this power over my site. *control freak*

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.)