To update our new site without updating it, we wanted to use the various places on the interwebs we do participate actively in to fill in the blanks. Our blogs, twitter accounts, flickr photostreams, etc. As I began to think about the logistics of creating these tremendous feed of information, Yahoo! Pipes came to mind. It’s an incredibly useful tool that basically allows me to aggregate data from as many places as I want, process it, and spit it back out as RSS / JSON / whatever I need.

While the above is still just a sort of proof of concept, I expect to use this to provide all the data for the site in a way I can interpret it and display it for the masses.

While it isn’t really anything ridiculous, it’s very special because it meets exactly my needs. It fits every electronic I want, and provides my with plenty of storage for trinkets, more electronics, and papers. In addition, it has ample desk space, with a place to push my keyboard and mouse under the monitors when I find myself needing more space still.

While these plans remain far from final, they represent the desk at it’s most basic requirements. I still need to consider technical aspects and design choices for the desk. During its two plus year stay at Penn State, it will undoubtedly take a beating from myself and my housemates.

As far as materials go, I haven’t even decided what kind of wood I will be making this out of. While I would love to make the entire thing out of figured maple, I feel this to be unreasonable. Maybe my personal wood expert will have a suggestion besides oak.