Today was a thinking day. Starting a new project. Well, choosing a new project first of all.
Last weekend I went through the cards I've been using for the last 28 days and wrote down what project idea I had for each of them. Just the first thing off the top of my head. Today I looked back over it with a view to choosing something. As I read them I realised that a couple of them had the added benefit of helping me to clear up my physical working environment and that that is quite important to me.
So I chose the Family History one, which I'd written down as "a memorial of some kind to Tony, using the stuff I've got of his and about him to make a something, not clear exactly what yet."
So today I turned this into cataloguing, digitising and writing about the materials I have from my father (he died six months ago, suddenly and unexpectedly). I have personal documents, letters, notebooks and diaries, but I also have lots of photographs of him playing music, some recordings and then press and publicity materials. And then there are other bits that are from his work as a computer programmer, again marketing materials, but also descriptions of the work that he did for ACT/Apricot in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
So that's it. He's not notable enough (I don't think) for a Wikipedia page, but it would be nice to have some sort of organised memorial to him on the web, working from all the physical evidence I have and helping his descendants know who he was.
That's it, that's as clear a project brief and product description as I can muster right now. I think the next thing is to have a think about what might be a realistic product in 28 days, working around existing commitments and the day job, so that I can make a better plan.
Writing this reminds me that not all blog posts have titles. I mean it's annoying to have to come up with something. Next blog software needs to not have it as a requirement, just let me write man.