It’s occured to be recently that whilst I like messing around with technology I’m not a particularly hardcore geek. Sure I run linux, but that’s it, I run it and sometimes install it (which recently isn’t exactly challenging). I don’t really play around under the bonnet, I just want a desktop that works.
The infuriating side of this is that there are quite a few cool little projects that I’ve thought of doing but never got round to. This means that I’ll never stumble upon the next internet fad and make a million purely by chance.
So, in case anyone wants to be more motivated than me here’s a list of things I’ve considered doing over the past couple of years and never got round to
- Designing a house (may still do this but it will be waaaay in to the future when I have the money, I’m currently wondering whether TurboCad is worth having a mess around with, anyone know?)
- Building a remote controlled model Ekranoplan
- Designing / Building a cheap amphibious car (admittedly mainly spurred on by that Top Gear episode)
- Setting up an OpenStreetmap project (more on this later as I’ll hopefully get round to this one)
- Designing my own lighting desk (a hardware implementation mainly with a software interface
Of course one of the obvious reasons why I haven’t done any of these is because they are ridicously big projects of which I have no real need, unlike fitting a kitchen, fixing the car, and relaxing.
Some day I’ll get round to some/all of these…..maybe
