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How To Have Too Much To Do

I've got a lot of things I'd like to tackle and I just wanted to layout some of the things on my mind lately. Many of them are small, so maybe I'll even complete a few before 2008.
  • Launch a small, free service that uses a del.icio.us account to take social bookmarks and forward them to Twitter or Jaiku or Onaswarm automatically.
  • Learn how to write a Firefox sidebar application and replace the crappy TwitBin. I want to only see the most recent status from each user and to remember my preferences better.
  • Develop a small desktop tool to grab my bugs from FogBugz and let me track time offline. This will come in handy when I travel around the holidays.
  • Get reacquainted with Nevow and Athena for a few small games, like TicTacToe and Squares.
  • And, as I write this, I want something that will take highlighted text and replace it with a link to a Google search for the text. Easier than looking up the links to everything I just mentioned!
It really seems like an OK plate, now that I have it written out.
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Jeremy Cantrell said…
Not sure how you feel about GTK, but I wrote a couple of apps using pygtk and glade over the thanksgiving holiday. it was my first venture into pygtk+glade, and the separation of presentation and logic was nice.
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