My projects
mitch @ 2:30 pm on January 16, 2006
I figured writing out my upcomming projects might help me accomplish them a little better…. so here goes:
Need to buy another PVR-150/PVR-500 card for my MythTV box, and a different case to make it quiet. It will then need to be configured with the TV-out on the Nvidia card so it can sit in the living room.
Asterisk! I need/want to learn more about VOIP and gain some experience with it… What better way to do this than with setting up a home PBX? Hopefully when we move the house will be wired with Cat 5e or… guess what my first project will be? 
(We’ll see if I can convice Elissa about that…)
Need to become more accustomed with CVS/Subversion, however, this I think will evolve from work and from an ongoing task of getting better at scripting. If I start using CVS/Subversion in the mix, this should be a piece of cake… Key is to get an editor that does it automagically to some degree… need to look into what vim can do more… if it will fit the bill then I’m set. (I hear its adopted some of the stuff Emacs can do…)
Home Automation, this is another area I want to dig into a bit. As its wicked cool, for the most part tho, its really getting devices to do what you need, and then writing the glue to make it all cohesive. It will however require some funding to make happen, thus it will need Elissa’s write off More geek things to make her understand.
Thoughts:
Being both a car nut and a geek makes some things rather difficult… as I’m always wanting something… for one of the two… gradually, I’m slowly giving up the thought of ever being able to tune up my civic, and looking just to buy a car I’m going to be “ok” with as it sits stock. These thoughts have forced me to *REALLY* want a Mitsubishi Evo. As I really don’t know what else I’d want to do with it, other than maybe a new ECU chip, and maybe a different deck… but even then I think I’m leaning more towards going with a MP3 player with FM transmitter so a different deck wouldn’t be nessisary. They’re still somewhat expensive tho, so I might have to settle for a Civic Si if I end up selling/trade in my current civic. Or I might end up just hanging on to my Civic untill I can afford an Evo… (which ever comes first in the next two years) Anyway, we’ll see.
