I don’t know how he did it but somehow he managed to steal this list straight out of my brain. Sure he added a few things like move to New York and picking up music again, but it’s basically my list. Compare:

• Start drawing (both offline and with a sweet pen tablet)
• Write those stories I keep starting (and participate in this year’s National Novel Writing Month
• Look out for myself (okay I’m stealing that one from him)
• Stay in better touch with my friends — and get out more
• Practice my Spanish*
• Design more and code less — including designing some t-shirts
• Start blogging about things I’m passionate about (design and the web)
• Redesign my site — I’m using someone else’s design!

See? Same damn list. He might have tried to customize it a bit to “make it his own” but we all know the truth. James Craig reads minds. I don’t know if he has to get close to you to do it, so I want to make sure I get these out now:

• Finally create my web-based cartoon — it’s been six years
• Start a t-shirt company (hey, everybody else is)
• Create some sweet WordPress plugins:
  • Real estate listings
  • Events calendar using the hCalendar microformat
  • Contact list using the hCard microformat

Okay, it appears that Structured Blogging is way ahead of me on the whole microformats-for-WordPress thing, so I’ll have to check that out.

* This one is major since my wife’s family doesn’t speak English and we visit them several times a year. I would also like to learn German since my own extended family doesn’t speak English either. As it stands right now I can’t communicate with her family or mine.

Flickr photo stream

I’ve temporarily added the Flickr Flash app to display my SXSW photo stream below the menu on this site. Temporary because I don’t like the Javascript implementation but I don’t have time to put up anything else right now.

Microformats presentation by Tantek Çelik

I saw these applications on Jakob Heuser’s laptop and thought they were cool:

Textmate (Text Editor for OS X)

It first grabbed my attention because Jakob had edited his color schemes to be colored text on a black background. Silly reason I know but it took me back to my days of programming MUDs back in college.

The functionality took me back too. It was the best of both worlds with the syntax highlighting and robust features of a GUI editor and the aliasing system of Linux. I’m not saying I’m going to replace my BBEdit, but I’m definitely going to play around with Textmate.

Adium X (Messenger for OS X)

I have no idea about this one but it looked interesting and I saw it at the same time that I saw Textmate, so I want to check it out too.