Identi.ca Updates for 2009-08-13

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  • Gonna take another whack at dev work… Hoping more progress this time around. #
  • Hmm… feeling productive again. Just need to do a few more things today and I’ll be quite satisfied. #
  • A bit more correspondences and write-ups before I can take a wack at creating a !drupal theme for justCheckers. #

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Identi.ca Updates for 2009-08-12

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  • Going to try using !ubuntu as a sandboxed dev system. It would be awesome to integrate into my development process. #
  • It burns!!! I’m not sure why but that last e-mail feels like it was lined with exasperation and a plasma charge. Ouch. #
  • If there were no bugs in software, all of us programmers would be out selling friendship bracelets instead. Think about the programmers!!! #

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Identi.ca Updates for 2009-08-10

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  • Excellent! All relevant things done, now on to some writing and hacking. I’m on a roll today. #
  • Please ask me about how I feel about denormalized generic data models. Remember to be wearing an asbestos suit when doing so. #
  • Alright! Onto dinner and some dealing with some physical world problems. Junglishly hot today. #

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Writing Progress Update for Monday

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Last week I realized the reason why I kept on losing my writing work.  I’m a big fan of running libre software on my desktop.  While I can’t do so comfortably at work, but at home I run Linux desktop exclusively.  (Except to play the occasional Windows-only video game.)  So I use OpenOffice for my word processing and hence writing.  And I’m a big fan of using Open Document Formats.  However working on ODTs (essentially ZIP archives with ODF XML files inside) from a USB flash drive is not the way to go.  I guess the amount of saving and writing to disk, doesn’t help with prolonging the life of the flash memory.  So I had to change my workflow to use Dropbox instead.  I don’t want to wrangle with corrupt ODT files.  To make a long story short, I had to do some lengthy rewrites which didn’t help with moving forward in my novel.  However that has all been resolved, and I can say that I’m making good progress on the first chapter.

Identi.ca Updates for 2009-08-07

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  • Awake finally. #
  • Managing multiple profiles on different websites is a bit of a pain. Still they are mighty convenient at times. #
  • Excellent, refactored my code. Now on to doing the same thing, except modifying the data! I wish there was a identi.ca client for S60… #
  • Done and done. Work week over, the homework week begins. 😀 #

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Identi.ca Updates for 2009-08-06

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  • Hmm… I guess I’ll stick around for a bit. I think I prefer microblogging to updating my Facebook status anyways. #
  • Woe is he, who must use Oracle and JDBC. #
  • Before ye cry, to the dba do fly, and get ye some grant access! #
  • Refactor time! Home time! Packaging time! #

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A Return to Normality

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Today marks the first day of getting back to my old schedule and routine.  The transition turned out smoother than I imagined.  Hopefully, no new quirk will appear and I get back to working on all my overdue tasks.  As things stand:

  • Writing the first part of the first chapter in the novel.  Had tweak it a bit to avoid a plot hole.
  • Working out the plan of attack to restart justCheckers development.  I’m woefully unfamiliar with bzr and Eclipse integration is not working well.
  • Some initial plans for the new justCheckers website theme.  Again, new to Drupal theming.
  • My consulting work is back to a regular, sane pace and my own expectations have fell into place.
  • My expectations and goals in general are more aligned with reality and my own position in it.
  • Small urgent tasks keep on stomping on my larger plans, which is a bit trying.  Hopefully this will all settle down soon.

I’ll continue blogging in short irregular bursts, until my projects start moving forward under their own momentum.

Clubbing In the Courthouse – Part 1

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Today I had to go to a summons.  I’m grateful for living in a country with a “fair” judicial system, and I’m not going to try to avoid my “civic” “obligations”.  But it bothers me, why our dear tax-money fed bureaucrats can’t organize things properly.  I see no valid excuse why to flagrantly wasting people’s time by asking until the judges and lawyers graciously call us in.  Could such a waste of time and productivity not be fixed with a bit of advanced scheduling?  For one this would help the economy, and social morale.  It this waiting seems something of a hangover from ancient times, when the nobles could simply “ask” the peasants to put their lives on hold.  Or am I missing something?

Why not small pools of potential jurors?  Or calling them in at appropriate times?  Why ask to place things on hold in a systemic manner?