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Thought 46: Website

I need to start real website for posting project updates, howtos, and software programs. So, I'm posting myself a todo list: 1.) Create a theme and pages. Thinking Steampunkish at the moment, as a major part of the sight will be for COG and well C.O.G. is a steampunk robot. Plus all of the other steam punk projects. But do not want to tie it too much to steam punk as there will be other things there. 2.) Get domain, not posting here what I am thinking, if you know me, you already know. 3.) Get a bank/paypal account setup. Need somewhere where the hosting bills can be paid and donations made. I do not plan to charge for any software, but plan to post software + source, so a little donate for hosting seems like a plan taken by many others. As well as I plan to reciprocate the donation to other "donation here" sites. Anything I'm forgetting, other than some details.

Thought 45: Phone II

Time to get started on some these phone app ideas. At least now that I have a phone for which I can actually write applications. App 1: Phone as Blue Tooth Mouse. I find myself needing a remote/mouse for the computer hooked up the to TV. And well the phone has a mouse like touch screen so why not just use that. Currently either connect via bluetooth or wifi and send mouse position changes to the PC as well as button presses. App 2: Phone as a Remote. Do not have the normal setup of TV with cable. Instead have been using a combination of Hulu, Netflix, and Mp4s as TV through the computer or Wii. I figure it would be useful to add things like pause, stop, play, rewind, etc. into App 1 and create a nice little combo app that allow digital flow from the portable phone to the PC. App 3: X10 from phone. I have an old X10 serial controller for the same computer. X10 has never been all the great of a technology, especially with compact florescent bulbs (it shortens there life dramati