tech. things i want to work on

I know this isn't any of the promised posts.
That being said:

1. google calendar --> google calendar syncing. This would allow for someone to add one calendar and be able to see all of my events. I use multiple Google calendars to organize my life and I'm not willing to give up the colors on my calendar so that other people can sync up with me more easily.
   
2. porting vimperator to Epiphany. I got hooked onto vimperator a few months ago. The key bindings make my life much easier, especially from a laptop where your hands are on your keyboard much more than your hands are on a mouse. Recently I discovered Epiphany (it came with the Gnome package that came with Debian Lenny) and oh my god, it's just so fast. Firefox is really getting bloated--and I realize that for some people that's desirable (where bloated = extensions), but I really don't utilize Firefox extensions and would just like for my tabs to load faster. : ] That being said, I don't know if I can live without vim-keybindings in my browser...and Epiphany add-ons are written in C/Python, which means that porting vimperator (or just the vim-bindings that I care about) might be a do-able task.
   
3. Writing laser music for Zac. My friend Zac has a neat laser set-up that "takes in" music input in the form of vibrations. I'd like to write some music to fully show off the laser's capabilities.
4. Work out a good framework for syncing up delicious links w/ mwik , incorporate tags into my structure of how I use mwik.
   

self blog challenge

Okay, ya'll, I know you liked hearing about my personal dilemmas & self-reflections, but I'm going to start blogging again and I'm going to challenge myself to the following:

I am going to blog on a theme and I'm going to do it once a week.

The theme is rather broad: UNC.

I'm nearly-definitely going to be blogging on the following:
(1) How the Honors Program failed me (or, what I would like to see in an Honors program)
(2) undergraduate women in Computer Science (or, why are there over 60% women in my 500-level Math classes?)
(3) the DTH (or, how journalists fail their classes but manage to put out a quality publication)
(4) Science majors vs. everyone else (or, where i prove that grade inflation isn't actually a problem)
(5) hipsters, wxyc, and the impenetrable nature of the flagpole smoking social scene
(6) why i'm more pissed off at women in my humanities classes than men (or how subjectivism, low self-esteem, and uncertainty of opinion has penetrated the classroom realm)

Anyway, these topics are very rough outlines, and I might end up going off on tangents or not blogging about any of these at all. If you read this and are interesting in hearing from me on any of these subjects in particular, please post and let me know.


(photo credit flickr user elander)