Dear Lazyweb and/or entrepreneurs,

Here’s what I would like for Christmas or whenever you can get around to it:

• A smart card that stores all of my memberships and reward/affinity programs. Imagine one card that has my drugstore, supermarket, bookstore, car rental, (ahem) shoe store, pet store, outdoor store, etc., information on it. Instead of carrying around a dozen cards to scan for discounts, how about one card that I could swipe at loads of places. In the past, I’ve paid around $5 or £3 for Washington DC and London metro cards to hold my “cash;” so that seems like a fair price for convenience.
• A web application/oracle I can query for fictitious names. I’m tired of seeing just “Sally Software Analyst” and “Peter Programmer” while reading. Were are “Vikram VP,” “Manuel Manager,” “Laticia Language Expert,” and “Wole Windows Programmer?” Tell you what, you give me a large set of first/given names, and I will give the world an application you can ask for names for your case studies. What’s more, if you give me a set of first/given names broadly tagged by ethnicity, I will give you the option to get random names in roughly the same proportion as they appear in the US population. Or you can make it yourself. Whatever.