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At work I’ve started working with ExtJS for the user interface for the web application I’m helping develop. I’ve always had reservations about using Javascript. Or rather I’ve always hated dealing with inconsistencies in DOM handling in browsers. Whenever I deal with CSS, I always hate dealing with cross-browser checking. Fortunately with increased popularity of Gecko-based browsers (Mozilla Firefox) and Webkit-based browsers (Google Chrome), I have to deal with headaches of a browser incompatibilities less often. However writing pure Javascript can be a bit daunting, and a library like JQuery or ExtJS comes in handy. So I’m still not sold on the concept of building everything in a RIA (Rich Internet Application) context. However using a Javascript library sure makes my website coding-hacking more palatable.
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I’ve been a huge fan of the Maemo system, since I got my hands on a N810. Now I can hardly wait to get my hands on an Internet tablet with phone capabilities: N900. The price is a bit prohibitive, and I have no clue when I’ll be able to get one up here in Canada. But the specs look amazing: http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
I can not say how excited I am by this phone. It matches up with what I’ve wanted from both a phone and a tablet. While I really enjoy using my 5800XM, the OS it uses: Symbian S60v5 and its hardware makes the device lag a bit. The N900 on the other hand, is built on an awesome platform (Maemo), has great hardware and processing power to do what I need it to do. It will really be mobile computing device that you can use heavily, while carrying it in your pocket. I wish Nokia luck with selling N900s like hotcakes. 🙂
Today proved a much more productive day, in terms of day-to-day small tasks. No such luck with my long term project. In fact I’m dealing with another setback, which makes me question why I even bother with this goal. Everyday this seems to slip further from my fingers, and the less I care in general. Maybe I’ll have better luck with my writing and game design. So at the moment I feel like I’m stumbling forward through life.
What a great weekend it was. I got to do a bit of clubbing with friends. The next day I also went to see District 9 with Karolina. What an awesome movie, quite unconventional and enjoyable to watch. Even people who don’t like science fiction will enjoy this movie. Ended the night with supper at Ki, a really nice upscale Japanese restaurant. Not something for daily dining, unless you happen to work as an exec at one of those financial institutions. And I ended of the weekend with some hiking in Muskoka. All in all awesome, but totally unproductive.
Good news though, I am almost caught up on my correspondences. If I haven’t contacted you yet, I will do so sometime this week. Also I re-read the rough draft of my novel, and I’ll be concentrating on getting the complete rough draft out in the next few weeks.
A week has past since my first full day in Canada, after my vacation. Somethings have changed, but others have not. No life changing changes so I can get back to my usual life. Almost everything is back to normal, but I am not quite back to my daily routines. Hence the lack of daily blog posts. Hopefully I can get back to blogging and keeping up with all the small routines I used to do. However, I feel that I’m almost ready to take on a larger project. Unlike last time, I will not try to complicate things by juggling too much. That would be too stressful and too distracting. I do have my eye on getting back to my novel writing though. I feel I’m ready this time to move my projects forward substantially.
My plane touched in Toronto Thursday afternoon around 3:15-ish. And officially my regular schedule resumed on Friday. However in reality, I’m still behind on a number of things, and everything is still one gigantic mess. I do plan to get back to blogging on a daily basis. But at the moment I’ve got a ton of e-mails to answer, phone calls to make, meetings to schedule and a bunch of other administrative stuff to do. Hence I’ll keep the updates short and sweet until I can dig myself out of this mess.
Things are going fairly smoothly for the trip. Not yet at the point at where I can say I’m packed and ready. And there remains a good chunk of work to do. However plans are proceeding forward.
While I look forward to my trip, lately I’ve felt like my self-esteem has taken quite a beating. I don’t know if this signals a slow but steady burnout. Or rather realization and acceptance of my current position and circumstances in life. I’m a bit disappointed. I still feel I’m far from where I want to be in the near future. And reality seems to close more doors than open them. If some potential opportunity opens, it feels more like a tease than an opportunity. Realistically, I feel I’ve exhausted all the straightforward options without compromising or risking my future on some future high-risk scheme. This realization is quite unnerving. I’m not sure what else I can do, aside from doing what I already am. I’ve never enjoyed the prospect of casting the dice and hoping for the best. This is fine in a game. In life not so much, since for action there are far reaching consequences. In life, a sane logical strategy needs to be in place. Still I can’t see how I can achieve my end-goals, circumstances being as they are. I find solace in my writing, and little else.
I’m still going to blog on highly irregular basis, definitely until after my trip. Or most likely after I finish writing the rough draft of the novel. My novel feels like the only meaningful contribution I can make at the moment. Everything else depends on external factors, beyond my control.
Well folks, it looks like I’ll be mostly offline for the next couple of weeks. It is a fairly busy time at work, and with my upcoming trip to Europe, I just don’t have time to blog. I might blog when I get there, but we’ll see how things go… Anyways take care for now.