Each summer thus far, I have wandered all summer long and never made any progress on any leads I’ve had, programming-wise or otherwise. I hope to change that this summer.
So I’m making a list.
- Geocache. It is a fun sport, even with a crappy GPS. Some people would argue that it is more fun with a crappy GPS… There’s a lot of caches around Ludington, and the area is beautiful!
- Migrate my site to Frihost–”Free Reliable Internet Hosting”. The deal there is that I stay active on their forums to keep my hosting account. I’m kind of torn right now; whether or not I migrate depends on the results of the next point.
- Figure out traffic shaping on my router at home. Right now, this site is hosted out of my parents’ basement. As such, I’ve got a pretty tight upload speed cap on my server so as to keep from disturbing their network. If I use QoS to ensure that the parents get highest priority, I can use as much traffic as I want, greatly increasing the speed of this site. I really, really don’t want to pay for a host.
- Muck about with music-making programs. I have messed with Fruity Loops, but I found it so resource-intensive that it would not run on my 1.66 GHz dual-core laptop. Now, I know that my specs aren’t that impressive. But I also know that programs like Impulse Tracker ran on 486-class systems. Therefore, something is severely brain-dead with FL. Besides, who wants a proprietary program to do what open source could do better?
- Sink my teeth into gnome-power-manager. I would like to participate in Google’s Summer of Code but I haven’t had any experience with any of the projects they host. I see many improvements that can be made in gnome-power-manager, so I am going to work on that and try for SoC next year.
- Go to Indiana Robotics Invitational. Hopefully with Susan. I will post pictures if I get to go.
- Finish Copper Bots’ website. That’s the team from Calumet I’m helping out. They need a website; right now it’s only a plain-vanilla WordPress blog.
- LEGO Camp with Truck Town. It has been epic every year that I’ve done it, and I am excited to help with it again.
I’m sure there’s more, and I will add to this list as things happen. This summer should be amazing!