Category Archives: An Idea A Day

I was thinking about making an ant farm earlier, and then realise it’d be weird if they escaped. Instead though, it shouldn’t be too hard to create an AI for ants. I doubt they have much of a wide activity … Continue reading →

Today was supposed to be a busy day for me, but it mostly turned into sleeping in and only getting to the library at five pm, rather than the nine am I wanted. When I got there I only did … Continue reading →

Because it’s one I’ll probably use the most, I’m currently working on the TV tracker I described. Mostly though, it turned into me just adding more to my standard PHP template that I use for most my projects. It hadn’t … Continue reading →

This probably isn’t something people want when they’re playing a game, but I think it would be cool if there was an MMO with finite resources. The world is generated once, and then not changed again. This ore mine has … Continue reading →

Recently, I got a HTC Hero. It’s a beautiful smart phone. I managed to get my contract with unlimited data (well, 750Mb fair usage) and that’s made me start thinking more about just storing my media online, and streaming it … Continue reading →

The BBC website isn’t that bad looking. The largest chunk of the page still goes to the content. However, my problem is that it’s a fixed width website. BBC isn’t the only person that I’m annoyed with because of this … Continue reading →

I’m sure there’s  a proper name for this. I know Rails does it. (I should have paid more attention to Agile classes.) I think has something to do with Model-view-controllers? But I’m not sure what that is really either. Showing … Continue reading →

This is a little late, so I’m going to set the release time of this entry to about half an hour ago. I’d really like the ability to do voice commands in my web apps. “Jeeves, send an email to … Continue reading →

Honestly, I’m a little shocked that I managed to come up with five ideas for the five days that I’ve been doing AIAD. This weekend I’m away in London though, so I probably won’t be able to spend much time … Continue reading →