I have too many projects that I don’t have time for. I thought I’d jot a few down, for when I actually run out of other things to do…
- I’ve wanted to provide an XML-RPC to Applescript bridge for my Mac for some time. Someone may yet beat me there; I wouldn’t mind, really.
- XML-RPC for Scheme, client-and-server. This will probably be #1 to do after submission; Noel already has made an excellent start on the client-side rewrite of my old library.
- Update my web-based SMS client; it needs per-user phonebooks.
- Build a publish/subscribe version of email. I don’t want to receive things from people unless they’ve asked for permission to send it to me. And, I want the servers to automatically arbitrate a secure, public/private key exchange to encrypt all of my communications.
- I wouldn’t mind a weblog engine written in Scheme.
- 42, the new occam compiler, needs bootstrapping.
- I’d like to spend some time just hacking on an FPGA, and learning how to program one. This is important for the next steps from 42.
- I’d like to go walking; the Pennine Way would be nice.
- I have friends in Vienna, Spain, and other parts of the world; it’s getting nigh upon traveling time.
- I’ve been wanting to put together a photobook of pictures from my time in Kent for some time now. Preferably, before everyone I know leaves Kent—or I do, for that matter.
- I’ve stopped exercising in the last few months of the PhD; it’s time to loose 25 pounds and get into shape.
- I’d like to become a more competative/better squash player. I haven’t played in six months. Oh, the joys of the PhD.
- I’d like to see an occam-pi library for robotic control; we have all the pieces in place, but don’t have the literature review and software. It’ll make a nice conference or journal paper when we write it.
- Someday, I’d like to have a book published by the MIT Press. Dunno why. Some kind of prestige thing. I’ll likely have to settle for self-publishing, given the things I’m interested in writing about.
- It would be nice to see my research take me South of the equator someday. It’s a half of the world I’ve never walked on.
I don’t think those are in any particular order. And I think there are more things I’d like to do or get done. Perhaps, someday, I’ll be able to start knocking some of these things off my list.