User:Woozle

Stuff

• To Do List
• me @ SquadWiki

Technical Gripes

• Why don't OCR programs ever let you open an existing image for OCRing? (This includes the XSane front-end and every Windows OCR program I've ever used, which is one program, but it was also buggy. What's XSane's excuse?)
• An email program which pops up a dialog box whenever it has trouble connecting, and thereafter ceases to attempt connections, is annoying. Unfortunately, my current email program does this. This is only one of many reasons I'm writing my own.
• RSS has the potential to let a user "subscribe" to a particular MediaWiki page or author, only being alerted when that page is updated or that author makes an edit -- but of the two RSS (or Atom) readers I've tried, neither one lets you filter by these attributes. You can set up a temporary filter for word-in-article-title, but it only does "name contains", not "name is" or anything more sophisticated. The MediaWiki software could get around this by offering pre-filtered feeds (e.g. there should be an RSS feed for each page's "history" tab) as well as for "my contributions" for each user.

Birthday eCards 2005

• from Aunt Jeannie in California
• from Sinaasappeltje in the Netherlands

Essays

• The Hyperfamily Idea
• Childrearing

Projects

• Operational
  • Issuepedia: an Encyclopedia of Issues (5/4: no content yet)
  • SquadWiki: online community with Niftyness!™
  • vbz.net: online store (wiki page)
• Under Development
  • Software
    • HyperMoney accounting database program: (4/15) usable for balancing checkbooks, but no Nifty features working
    • HyperMail email management database program: (4/15) working out kinks in Thunderbird import code
    • HyperFile file and media management database program: (4/15) in design phase; tables and some code written
    • HyperPlayer media database/jukebox which allows browsing & playing audio (and eventually video) by artist and album, eventually also by songwriting, performance, and production credits.
  • Other
    • CyberLife: where I hope I'll be living in a few decades
• Trivia
  • Epigram word silliness program

Interesting Sites

• (2005-04-21) Interplanetary Internet Project
• (2005-03-27) Star Trek New Voyages: fan-produced, freely downloadable episodes of new stories from the 4th and 5th year of the original 5-year mission. Maintains the look-and-feel (and -sound) of the original series, but with CGI effects.
• (2004) OpenCyc: a project to put basic "common sense" into an open-source database.

Bookmarks from Other People

• (2005-05-11) BYU Article about nitpicky religious discrimination -- possible Issuepedia fodder?
• (2005-05-11) American Conservative article about Bush's "free-speech zones" - a conservative article criticizing Dubya??
• (2005-05-01) Computer Rage Article - my dad thinks I should be working in this field; I think they've figured out how to franchise it, so there really isn't space for independent operators anymore (if there ever was). Plus my time commitments make it impractical to be "on call", even if I could stand to answer the phone for a living.
• (2005-04-22) Missy Higgins - Australian singer recommended by Yaira. Songs available for continuous lo-fi listening but no downloads.

Shiny Technology

• (2005-05-21) Vinyl Burner