Handyman

• Fix broken eve where tree fell on it
• install door sweeps
• obtain and install transition pieces between hardwood floor and carpet
• obtain and install transition pieces between hardwood floor and kitchen
• Put up ceiling moldings in living room
• reinstall hallway molding

IT

• Set up an automated attendent / voice mail system for my PBX using my Dialogic board (preferablly using Linux software so I can have features like emailing my voicemail to me).
• Transcode all of my DVDs so they take less space
• *Write a script to mount a DVD, transcode all of the VOB files to MPEG4 (or whatever gives the best compression without reduction in quality), then create a new DVD image
• *Make ogle able to play these new compression formats (it can only play mpeg-2, probably the best way to do this would be to add an mplayer interface to it)
• Set up a Linux based media system with MythTV
• Back up all of my servers
• Setup a Linux based video editing machine with support for my miniDV video camera (Travis wants to make some movies)

• Go over all of my old computer equipment, determine what works and what doesn't, and get rid of broken stuff.