I think that if there was one way to focus in a project with which to learn PHP and MySql, would be to create some kind of famous-quote “manager”.

I have tons of favorite quotes by a wide range of authors, such as Neville Goddard, James Allen, Emmet Fox, Brian Tracy, Jim Rohn.


 

Here’s what I do now when I’m filling yet another online forum profile (there’s always a place for a signature box and quotes go well here. )

- Look at treepad, did I store quotes here? nope, then I look at Infoselect, a info management program I used to use.. nope, it’s a mess in there..,

I’ll also look at my memo utility in my palm desktop app..

So there’s usually no central place as you can see where I can dependably go for this list. ( or for that matter, a favorite movie list, or a favorite book list that you get asked for sometimes. )
The future for the user interface is most likely the browser, so I’d like to have one single central page, that I have a convenient bookmark for (actually, I would simply set this page as my Home page, so it appears at browser startup), and this web page is on my hard drive and connects to maybe a sqllite or mysql database on my hard drive.

(James Martell, the writer of one of the best affiliate ebooks has a start page similar to this, where he has goals, etc.. on his start page)
Maybe have several tabs (nice graphical ones, or maybe use CSS/DHTML as an excuse to master this stuff.)

And one of these “tabs” is just quotes or other list-type stuff… Enough on that subject.
Amazon:

Amazon now has separate wish lists. Go to it, if you have more than 120 books on the list, of different genre’s, like I do.

I spent about 20 minutes moving my programming books to a new programming wish list.

What a relief to be able to just click “Add to Wishlist” and know that it’s not being buried in a huge mixture of different books such as health/fitness, marketing, inspirational, etc.. You can set any of your Wish Lists as the default, too. Otherwise, there is a new dropdown link under the Add To Wishlist button, that allows you to specify the list.

Two Links To Throw out there:

One convenient place to create those “Add Me” RSS buttons for your blog:

http://www.toprankresults.com/tools/button-maker.php
Are you curious about what usatoday.com or amazon.com looked like three years ago? You can plug in any URL and this site will try to find it in the huge global cache online. It’s called the WayBack Machine at:
http://www.archive.org/Not like you actually had anything else to do, I’m sure.

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