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TODO

I’ve been working like mad on a client briefing most of today and need a sanity check. What better than a To Do list for the next few weeks?

Finish client briefing
Meet with GeexBox team on OpenUsability mentor project
Review toolbar guidelines in preparation for HIG meeting
A different client meeting
Client briefing (TBD, but sometime this week)
User testing Wednesday and Thursday
Meet with Ellen and discuss toolbar guidelines
Finish SCALE presentation
Another client briefing
Meet with research advisor
Semester starts next week! Remember to go to class!
Continue work on the KDE usability history article I started a few months ago
Meet with Ellen about next HIG topic (going for weekly meetings)
Write up KDE usability case studies
Revise thesis plan for meeting with advisor
Meet with academic advisor about thesis
SCALE conference already?!
Finish IA Summit presentation
Review Katapult and several other applications which never made it off my last TODO list
Finally.. remember to breath and eat dinner
Oh, and play World of Warcraft Burning Crusade (this will probably sneak up a little higher ;-)

Oi vey. Actually, that was a horrible idea, but at least I have a list all the things I need to do!

Can’t help but post this quiz: How Pittsburgh Are You?. I’d love to know what some of yinz get ;-)

This holiday season, I though I would take a few minutes to list some of the things I’d love to get from KDE in the next year:

Kivio to become so kick ass I can replace Visio, but right now I’d be happy with improved stencil placement and line drawing
Someone to help me create web and KDE4 UI stencil sets after I switch to Kivio
Krita to become a little more comfortable to use so I can use it to do simple image manipulation rather than Photoshop
Konqueror to support/migrate my Firefox extensions
AmaroK to see the err of their ways and work towards a more KDE-consisten UI
SpeedCrunch add an option to display number pad so people stop thinking Kubuntu doesn’t provide a calculator

Other random things I want:

The projector or monitor to work from my laptop on the first try
Blizzard to fully forgive application “wrappers” so I can play World of Warcraft in Linux without risk to my account
Second Life to get with the program and use first-person-shooter affordances for avatar control, and stop reinventing the wheel and use things like the Quake engine and Alice modeling environment
Adobe to support their products on Linux until OSS catches up
More opportunities to do OSS work during my day job
A pony and a Wii

Luckily I have a lot of friends (or so I think :) so maybe I’ll see some of these things in the next year!