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Simon P. Ditner

I should incorporate all of this into some action management system, like ActionMan!

Simon's Bit Box (I also have a done list.)

Mantra:

Write it down, review it, do it. Keep a history

TODO List

• Visit Bakka-Phoenix, a SciFi? book store in toronto.
• TECH STUFF
  • Antique Trader
  • Digital Congrucene website
  • Gather Real Estate Data, and test visualization theories
  • Learn "Octave", http://www.octave.org/
  • Learn "R"
    • Using MySQL with "R": http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/research/rq/RMySQL.html
  • mp3 Mum & Dad's CD's
  • Project Zimmerman -- not at work
  • Treemap Documentation
  • VPN with Eric
  • Neat way to stress-test programs: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=132921&cid=11098383

• NON-TECH STUFF
  • Create Diagram of my Future
  • Ditner.com/Recipies
  • Figure out how taxes work for small businesses
  • French / Spanish / Manderin
  • GST/PST #?
  • NewPath Profile
  • Northen Digital -- sounds like fun work -- maybe not. It would be fun building visualization tools using their spatial tracking doodads.
    • Human-computer interaction
    • working with visualization of large data sets...
  • Personal Profile
  • Research places that work on visualization
    • AT&T
    • IBM Toronto
    • University of Maryland
  • Research the Data Trending and Analysis market
  • Update 2005 "Big Things" list
  • What should be done for Christmas 2005?

TO WRITE

• The invisible man -- we are all objects with accessor methods, the internal operations of which is hidden to all but ourselves -- and further within the operations which are hidden from our concious minds

TO ACQUIRE

• Big dish for Dad
• Cork board
• Eye Tracking Software
• FM Radio Kit
  • There's a prepackaged FM transmitter on futureshop's website
• Learning Manderin book
• More whiteboards
• Small, light, tablet PC with stylus input
• Yuk Yuk's Tickets

Potential Projects

• Clear, concise recycling signs for apartment depots

Entrepreneuring

• http://www.evancarmichael.com
  • How can you develop trust with potential investors?
  • How much do you need?
  • In clear English, what does your business do?
  • What are your problems and objectives?
  • What do you need money for?
  • What is your company's story?
  • Who will you call to get love/angel/VC money?

Computing ideas I'm thinking about...

• Add tinted boarders to treemap elements to make them look "cooler"
• Bai's 3d FPS http://www.jgdev.com/phpwiki
• Create an inventory control sysytem that includes floorplans and rack diagrams
• Creating a database-driven email client, that indexes emails by multiple criteria (subject, sender, etc) and allows visualization through touchgraphs
• Fighting Spam
• Glade + gtk + perl + treemap file browser, with a console-esque input box at the bottom
• GLT OpenGL Toolkit
• Gtk + perl + wiki editor
• Human Computer Interaction
• Organise projects and put them into CVS
• Paper on using Wiki as a universal object container (maybe through iframes and a twiki plugin)
• Perl or PHP Calendar
  • Nothing simple enough to sastify my needs exists, starting own project
• Setting up docbook
• Switch stylesheets depending on operation
  • A view mode, and a navigation mode
• SystemAdministration
• Test treemap installation and add GD support
• The Form validation library, and it's troubles: FormValidation
• visualize a vector search engine's data in n-space using an infinite number of axis

Network Theory

• Self Organising networks
  • http://summa.physik.hu-berlin.de/~frank/active.html
  • http://xxx.arxiv.cornell.edu/abs/cond-mat/0212240
  • Network_builds_itself_from_scratch
• Maps
  • http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/

Computing...

• Linux patches to accelerate desktop machines -here

Networking...

• OpenBSD pf patches to allow state synchronization between firewalls -here-

Multimedia...

• Linux TV stuff
  • http://linuxtv.org
  • Linux Infrared Remote Control: http://lirc.org

Things I should think about...

• Math - Introduction to Geometric Algebra (offsite)
• The language R
• The application GraphVis?

Science...

• Fusion made easy.
• Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC)

Gaming

• Independent Gaming Festival
  • Strange Adventures in Inifinte Space

Toys! Everyone likes toys!

• Fun Toys
• JAVA and Lego RCX
• Nifty Gifts for People

I also enjoy Cooking

Work Work:

• Design and streamline operations
  • Improve our view of the network
  • Improve ability to montior
  • Improve flow of information to other departments
  • remove bottle-necks in change management processes

Interesting Employers:

• Self
• Corps
  • IBM
  • DSS
  • Aliant, on the east coast.
• Game Companies
  • EA - I've heard they're not a nice compnay to work for
  • Relic
• Educational
  • UBC
  • SFU
  • UMD
• Government
  • Canadian Metrology Centre - CMC
  • Environment Canada; Rebecca has worked for Environment Canada

Some Career Goals:

• HCI researcher with very flexible schedule and locale
• I'm most interested in humans interaction with information and knowledge
• meshing travel (field research?), acedemic, and applied research
• work needs solid connection with the real world

TRAVEL INFO

• http://itravel.ca
• http://tripcentral.ca

• Sony opensource stuff http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/notice.html

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