Summary of All Posts to Date

My ideas roll out as a blog, and are more contemporary than topical. Here is a summary of topics to date:

Shameless Plug

• Looking for A Place to Excel
  • A shameless plug of me looking for excellent sales engineering, Python, or sensors employment.

Write-ups of Technical Videos and Events

• EngEdu Video Write-up: “Google Test Automation Lightning Talks
  • Many short, useful ideas on automated testing compressed.
• BayPiggies Write-up: 9/13 SnapLogic Talk
  • Development and tool chain of an open source data munging tool
• EngEdu Video Write-up: “A New Way to Look at Networking”
  • Great history of voice and TCP/IP networking with some future ideas
• EngEdu Video Write-up: “Unit Test Automation for Drupal, Google Summer of Code”
  • A short write-up of summer’s work on test automation
• EngEdu Video Write-up: “Advanced Python (or Understanding Python)”
  • Great talk on underlying structure of Python and its advancd features
• Event Write-up: First Tuesday Notes for Tuesday, August 1.
  • Technical ideas for improving face to face meetings
• EngEdu Video Write-up: “Practical Common Lisp”
  • Key advantages of the Lisp language

Free New Software Ideas

• Pondering Future Programming Environments
  • Appreciating the need for more capabilities in programming environments
• Linux hurts my brain.
  • Appreciating the scattered documentation and broken man pages of Linux
• Automatic Misspell Checker
  • A tool for adding misspellings so that people won’t take spelling too seriously.
  • Actually implemented independently by John Maeda
• Annoying Back To Work Buzzer
  • Software that notices you have been surfing too long and reminds you to work.
• Quick-reference and Keyboard Template Generator
  • A generic system for printing out keyboard short-cuts
• Spam Hassler, a FireFox Plug-in
  • Executing DDOS and resource wasting of those that send you spam.
• Another online spell-checker
  • Spell checker that helps you learn the correct spelling

Free New Product Ideas

• A Backpack for Connected Humans
  • A backpack with chargers and and an extension cord built-in
• Today’s worst idea: authenticate what you wear
  • Be sure what the person in the chat room is really wearing
• Rear mounted license plate cameras
  • Be able to report and authenticate people who tailgate
• Cool Shoes, and other gesture based clothing
  • Use gestures to control message displayed by POV clothing display
• Touch to turn on flash lights
  • Flashlights that stay on only when touched
• Extra-iodine Enhanced Salt
  • Make branded salt with additional iodine and other trace minerals
• Toys by the Handful
  • Make toys in strips for Halloween and other occasions
• Markers for Making Test Keys from Overheads
  • Markers that eat holes in transparencies to allow fast grading
• Book Journal
  • A pretty journal to keep track of what you have read

Free New Ideas about Society and Politics

• Journey of the Unconferences
  • About unconferences and some ideas to improve them.
• Bad Blood Bank
  • The Red Cross could sell your DNA information
• Secret Shoppers for HMOs
  • Manage health care costs and quality by getting second opinions
• Fixing the Patent System — Publish Provisional and Abandoned Patents
  • Keep inventions from obscurity by publishing everything in 17 years
• Comedy Industry of America (CIA) Poster
  • Satire poster about legal dangers of retelling jokes
• Medical Record to PDF law
  • Prevent medical records from being lost due to proprietary formats
• Court Reporters and Limited Copyrights
  • Provide limited copyrights to place court transcripts into public domain after a short period
• Government Mail Seals to Thwart Junk Mail
  • Provide distinctive, restricted seal on all government originated mail
• Strikes: Violent story idea
  • Plausible scenario or plot of extremely violent gangs due the three strikes laws
• Encouraging Small Towns to “Tourist Trap” SUVs
  • A slightly evil idea to have small towns target overweight SUVs visiting their roads
• Two quick, simple management ideas.
  • Secret Job Titles and Personal Slogans on Nameplates

TrueGift Donations and Education Ideas

• A TrueGift Experiment: Proactive Distribution
  • An experiment in having teachers sign up on a paper sheet quickly
• A song for all languages
  • A children’s song that teaches the difficult phonemes of all languages
• And So It Begins
  • The beginning of the 2007 school year at TrueGift Donations
• MMORPG with human languages
  • Use human languages for different races in on-line games to encourage learning

Other Blog Posts

• 12 Impossible Things Before Bed
  • The personal habits and time commitments I find interesting
• Miami Vice, Police Don’t Pay
  • Noticing a movie that portrays negative value police
• FavIcon added for this blog
  • The little picture in your address bar, and how you can add one, too.
• Hello world!
  • First post!