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My Inaugural Post

I've decided to start this blog, to chronicle my adventures in programming. I have a list of project ideas that I want to get working on, that I'm listing here.
    My initial set of intended projects are to provide plug-ins/extensions to replace Adobe's PDF and Flash Mozilla plug-ins with open sourced ones, based on existing libraries, preferably written in C( which is the programming language I'm most familiar with). for rendering PDF's, I'm intending on using the MuPDF library, already used as the back-end for Sumatra PDF, updating it's very outdated Mozilla plug-in. For Flash I'll use the Swfdec library and it's already-existing Mozilla plug-in, porting both to the windows platform.
    In researching for these projects I've come up with more ideas for projects, to support and extend, in the future, my intended plug-ins:

• To extend the plug-ins to full blown extensions.
• To extend the MuPDF library to be able to render other document formats( such as MS Word's .doc, and .djvu). Also I want to change certain parts of the library( like separate the lbfitz module from the others, and make libmupdf, libmuxps and the others separate modules).
• To create a MIME-type-plug-in associations manager extension( that will aim at working around Bug 19118, and related bugs).
• To create ActiveX controls for all the above( including a plug-in hub and manager, for using Mozilla plug-ins in Internet Explorer)

    Besides replacing Adobe's plug-ins, I have other unrelated idea's that I want to pursue:

• An Opera extension to show Hebrew Biblical verses with cantillation marks in a font that supports them. Though something like תּוֹרָ֥ה צִוָּה־לָ֖נוּ מֹשֶׁ֑ה מוֹרָשָׁ֖ה קְהִלַּ֥ת יַעֲקֹֽב׃ is properly viewable in Firefox, in Opera ( and in Internet Explorer and Safari, as well) it isn't. I would like to change that. [Edit(11-10-2013): That shouldn't be necessary now, as cantillation marks seem to show well now in Opera, and in Internet Explorer as well for that matter]
• A program that allows Windows program to be run( and seen and interacted with) in a Cygwin/X window( something like the XOpenWin project, that never took off).

    I think that will do for now. I'll post more about these project ideas, and other programming related things,  as they develop.