Fairly Realistic

I want to accomplish great things
There are so many things that I want to create or do. Tonight I am going to start a list in a text file on my desktop of “things I want to do.” Nicole and I have successfully occupied all of our waking time with stuff to do. It seems like we never stop doing something - because there is always one or two more things to pack into the day before going to sleep. This past month we have both been sleeping for three to five hours each night. It’s been okay, we’re hanging in there very well. Surprisingly neither Nicole or I have really been that tired during the day or at night. I feel so unproductive when I sleep; especially with my new text file of “things I want to do!”

Ideas
I have so many ideas that I want to create, develop, or design. There are so many network-based social computing applications that are sitting around in my head just waiting to be programmed. Lately I’ve been working on Last.FM web services with a few other developers. A lot of really good progress has been made and I think there will be a public release of some really great services in the next few days.

Eric, the Oracle
The future of the web is going to be in syndication and connectivity of information. There are so many pieces of information just waiting to be linked or collected. I am not talking about big brother type information collection - I am talking about information that is put together is such a way that it actually benefits people. Computers are so good at collecting and storing information but they are so bad at making it useful. It’s not their fault. Programmers need to keep getting together and exposing their data streams. Every application, website, database, or whatever can be really useful to a given group of people but that group is always limited. It is when the information is useful to that specific group and then also useful to the global group (all Internet users). There is a lot of useless information online but just as the saying goes, “one users useless information is another users RSS feed.”