It's been a full week since my last entry.  That officially makes me a slacker!

I havn't had much "tech" time over the last week.  My wife went to NY for a few days so I had the kids.  That didn't leave me much time for doing much of anything.

I'm currently working on writing a full featured ASP.NET commerce system.  It's an upgrade for an existing customer, but I'm throwing in everything including the kitchen sink.  This will be the commerce starter kit that will make all the others look weak ;-}

Also working (half heartedly) on a variation of my "Geek Trading Card" diversion.  It'll be more of a "design your own trading card" webservice type app.  It won't have any of the fancy stuff that was intended for GTC, but it should be robust enough for an average person to create a  cards for their kid's team ;-}

I've also been kinda busy at my day job.  It's not that there is really a lot to do or that it's difficult, but a bunch of last minute changes have come up (surprise, surprise, surprise) and because of the way things have been "designed" it creates some ugly implementations... and I just can't abide ugly.  So, I'm digging deep into my SQL resevoir and pulling out all kinds of stops to create at least a semi-elegant solution.

I'm also trying to learn a little about Pirate (micropower) radio / tv.  I've thought the idea was cool ever since I saw the movie "Pump Up The Volume"  Podcasting kinda fills this niche, but not with quite the same target.  The idea of a global community is great, but in the end, most of my life takes place in a very small geographic area.  I think it would be interesting to setup some sort of micropower radio station with information relevent for the neighborhood.  If you could allow feeds from multiple sources (ie. broadcast a Gizmo Project conference room)  then you  could allow for both one-way and two-way audiences... more gears turning ;-}

I havn't moved forward with my "Free Tees" campaign yet.  I hope to clear some of the stuff off of my plate and get a little more focused.  Now that summer is over and kids are back in school, my schedule is a little more full (Soccer, dance, girl scouts, bowling etc....) plus a bunch of volunteer time.  I will get it back under control (I hope)

TTFN