Side Project To-Do List
On the way to work today, I came up with what I feel is a brilliant way to leverage my development skills and knowledge of comic books beyond what I've already done with comicbooklist.com. But I've already got a bunch of side projects that are near-completion that I've been slacking on lately. So I've decided that I need to finish all of those before I'm allowed to continue with my new idea. So here they are in the order that I'm going to do them:

1. Finish my current todo list for richardmatthews.org.
2. Write an installer for WINGS.
3. Get InfiniteCOW back up and running to the point it was at before the final release of Microsoft's AJAX framework broke the whole thing.
4. Do anything else that needs doing for richardmatthews.org that might have come up since finishing the current todo list.
5. Get the data for the current comicbooklist.com up-to-date (I'm probably six months behind).

If I buckle down, I should really be able to knock all that out in a month. I think the only one that's really going to be difficult is writing the installer for WINGS. I've never written an installer before. I'm pretty sure that Visual Studio comes with some installer packages, so it should just come down to figuring out how that works and making it happen.

Once all of that is done, then I can start working on comicbooklist.com 2.0. I'm also not allowed to start a new video game until I finish at least the first three items on this list (but I can play ones I've already started). Fortunately, Pie has picked up several new games recently, so hopefully I can get my fix by watching her while I work. That also means that I need to find a comfortable working setup for the living room with my laptop. One of the reasons I've been slacking on my side projects lately is that I don't really like hanging out in the office for long periods of time, especially if Pie isn't in there too. I definitely prefer having multiple monitors for any serious dev work, but I think a comfortable environment is more important to me than screen convenience.

Once I do get started on this brilliant new idea, I'll be recruiting any of you who have a knowledge of any particular comic book characters or story lines for your brain power.