The Project Queue doesn’t follow the rules of a normal queue. These are the ideas I kick around for the site. Ideas can move aside, become idle, forgotten, put on hold, cut in line, or otherwise have a life of their own. Inspiration can strike at any time, so I like to keep things flexible. It’s more like a random-access queue.
- Write an essay on the lack of representatives in U.S. Congress with technical backgrounds. Society continues to integrate highly technical aspects of engineering and science, yet our representatives are mostly lawyers. Why?
- Create a counter that shows the number of U.S. representatives with technical backgrounds.
- Even better: design a web crawler specifically for house.gov and senate.gov that calculates the likelihood a representative has a background in either business, law, politics, or science/engineering. It would have to be keyword or keyphrase based.
- Develop a simple game using Microsoft’s XNA framework. I use the .NET framework on a daily basis and gaming is becoming a significant force in simulation. I work with two out of three, so it’s time to integrate the third—gaming.
- Perhaps use .NET 3.0 and SilverLight since it has cross-platform support. People on Linux need to play games, too.
- The X-Box Live Marketplace just recently opened to independent developers, but the minimum standards probably exceed my novice game design abilities.
- Make more photos publicly accessible. I’ve got thousands of photos in my gallery but only a small subset has been reviewed and captioned for your enjoyment. The most interesting album which hasn’t gone public is from my 2007 trip to the Czech Republic and Austria.
- Refine my current Wordpress theme. There’s always room for improvement and a few things have always bugged me. For example, it’s not immediately obvious my site logo is also a link to the home page.
