Half-baked Ideas

There was a time when it was fashionable for software developers to make everything “dynamic” and “smart.”  It annoyed the hell out of everyone.  You would be typing up your paper in a word processor without looking at the screen.  Then when you look up everything is formatted all weird, the sentences don’t make any […]

Most stock market software finds stock picks for you based on the strengths of the stock.  However, many times you already have stocks picked out, but are unsure of which one to purchase.  Software that highlights the weaknesses of individual stocks would be helpful. For example, suppose you are trying to choose between purchasing Apple […]

I have always been fascinated by history, and one of the best tools I’ve found for understanding history is the timeline.  Timelines give you a chronology, concretely placing specific events before others to establish a cause-and-effect relationship. There should be a “master timeline” on the Internet, sort of like how Wikipedia has become a “master […]

Do we even need to segregate bathrooms by gender anymore? These days people are more private than they were when your grandfather was young. I can’t speak for women, but I’ve been in plenty of men’s restrooms. Lots of closed off stalls and every urinal is sectioned off with a divider. If a woman walked […]

Children generate a lot of artwork.  Parents often want to save the artwork in case it has some meaning to the kids or parents when the children grow up.  In the digital world we now live in, there needs to be an app for saving kids’ artwork. I quick search turns up several apps that […]

People have always been fascinated by the possibilities of the future.  The future captures our imagination.  There are movies depicting our possible futures (The Matrix, Inception).  There are books about the future (1984, The Road).  There are video games set in the future (Starcraft, Halo).  There are futurists who explore our possibilities (Ray Kurzweil, Michio […]