Could be an interesting weekend project.

I think the definite biggest hit to today’s motivation was not getting up on time. It just pushed everything back a few hours, and once your schedule is kicked off course by that much you tend to think “meh, what’s another hour later going to change?” Getting up on time is tomorrows aim in that case. It seems so petty, and childish though. Some people have to get up at four am to get to work on time. My sometimes getting up to eleven o’clock is just horrible.

It would be better if there was some kind of motivation. A website with a Lost input-the-number-every-108-minutes type function. Not every 108 minutes, but rather every morning, before 0830 (and then again at 0900 to make sure you’re actually up). I might do that right now…

There needs to be some kind of reward at the end though. I’m not too sure what that could be. It can’t cost me any money, but must somehow give that minireward feeling that I get from WoW…

Oh, achievements!

This wasn’t going to be a post for my Idea A Day, but I guess I’ll make it so. A website in which you get achievements for things that are to the betterment of your life. “Get up everyday for two weeks before nine am.” (Described above.) “Go camping in the Lake District.” (Tracked by GPS.) “Be sociable! Spend more than an hour in six different places in a week.” (GPS again.)

I’m sure there are others. They don’t have to be provable always; although there’s a tiny competitive part to it, I just like collecting achievements.

Since I ended up playing World of Warcraft this weekend (ugh), I didn’t get much done on it. I’m planning on adding to it during this week though, and releasing the code once it’s in a releasable state.

This ore mine has six thousand tonnes of ore, and once that’s all been mined, it’ll make no more.

Mobs are “born” at the beginning of the world, Creationist styles, and they can mate and produce more. But once they’re all killed, that’s that species extinct. Maybe a talent tree could lead to taming some pets, as fighters, or as live stock where they can be bred. Environmentalists might spring up, protecting habitats of animals.

Players can build things in each sector of land, but they never truly own it. It can be taken away by force just like it can be in real life. Maybe a guild of players will get paid in exchange for defending the land?

There wouldn’t be any leveling, per say. The aim would just be to earn as much as you can, gain as much land as you can. Become King? Or maybe a democracy could happen.

Player death should mean something. Something extreme. Both to inspire people to live, and also to not take life away. When the stakes are high, a person will be less likely to go and attack people randomly just to be a dick. If they stand to die, and lose all their stats, money, items, and property maybe they’ll think twice.

It’ll be a cool experiment in social politics, in a world where your property actually means something. If you lose your unique Amulet of +10 Health, you can’t just go and do another rinse and repeat quest. That was the only one in the game.

I think it’d be fun and useful to recreate the iTunes experience, just for a mobile device in an online environment (browser-based). Different to Spotify because I already own the media, and don’t want to pay a monthly fee. It’d just be my personal use of DRM-free media I have. My library would not be publicly available, or usable by other users.

I’m not too sure on how I could prove that the user owns the song though, and didn’t just illegally download it before uploading it. If this were ever to be a popular service, I’d have to have lawyers and people look into that. Meanwhile, it’ll just be me using it and a few close friends so I can make sure none of them are breaking any copyright.

Not just music media though – podcasts too. They could just be steamed from the server they come from. The service would have to be able to remember where I left off listening to the podcast though, since I rarely finish Geekbox in one sitting for instance.

Update: I found Google Listen! It seems a bit odd at the moment, but I’m sure that’s just me getting used to it. I wish it had a web interface though…

There’s a weird myth about each phone having an email address associated with it for text messages, but I’ve never got that working.

There actually is a way to receive messages, and send messages to a group of users. I use it to get a message whenever a customer emails me. It just takes a little messing around with Twitter. But it shouldn’t have to be that awkward.

On my not-so-large monitor there’s still a large amount of white space that’s going unused that the content of the site could fill up. The BBC has an obligation to support legacy things for a short while, but they’d still be supported with a variable width design.

The ideal solution to this was if people took more seriously the concept of design and content separation. Blizzard do this amazingly — by just ditching HTML all together. That way I can just disable their CSS, and add my own. I could literally do whatever I want without having to worry about badly formatted or too tailored HTML getting in my way.

So, a class that looks at your table that has the information you which to be displayed on a web site, and it just ahead and formats it for you. I don’t ever want to write that loop again.

I’d really like the ability to do voice commands in my web apps. “Jeeves, send an email to Bob saying I shall be attending lunch today!”

Enough said.

I’ve not run out of ideas just yet though, so there’ll be more next week.