It was weird — while showing one of my coworkers the beauty of famfamfam icons for possible use in sprucing up one of our online applications, I mentioned that every time I see a good, pretty icon set I get the urge to make an application just to be able to use them.
“So why don’t you?”, he asks me.
And lately, I have not been able to come up with a good answer for that question. I mean, work is killing me but I have enough time to waste it on browsing the Internet. I certainly am not hurting for startup funds this time around, and I know what needs to be done to get a business up and running.
So I’ve started kicking around some ideas. Of course, I’m not exaggerating on work is killing me, so it will have to be something where I can see progress with a bunch of 2 hour mini-sprints after getting in the door around midnight. That suggests it should probably be a web application. Alas, Java, I knew ye well…
I have also been having persistent dreams of a particular application. They’ve gotten so vivid as to include database schema… but the waking me knows that the business model is terrible. Just asking for total failure. Nobody could ever pay money for it. And yet, I would really want to see this get made… We’ll see.
Further updates in the usual space.
Speaking of which, I haven’t been blogging much lately, part for lack of energy and part for lack of ideas. I have been considering doing some severe surgery to the blog to collect much of the information in a more permanent, sensible manner — so that you could, say, click on a category listing for SEO and then get material about that in an organized order rather than just seeing my random thoughts on it arranged by date. That would be a large project, though, and at the moment I want for time. So if you have ideas for shorter things that you’d like to read in the meantime, drop me a line in the comments.
