It is Friday. Feeling tired from the irregular sleep cycles of this past week. I didn’t move forward as fast I wanted to this week. I’ve felt distracted, tired and could not focus. Still the minutae of this week didn’t tie me down. Thanks to a friend my Polish writing improved in leaps and bounds this week. No regrets this week, and many things moved forward. And thanks to the same friend, I can see a positive glimmer of hope in my future. I plan on focusing on making my schedule sane again, and living a fairly active but normal life. No updates on the writing past a few notes, and ideas. No code updates either, aside from a steady tinkering with the justCheckers website. Enjoying using the new Firefox 3.5. It feels so much sleeker than before. Oh and thanks to the fine folks at Fido for having simple and sane contracts. Guess whose service is gonna get recommended to friends?
Realizations
This week I realized:
- How little I really know about the important stuff: like faith. There are so many knowledge to be gained in fields related to this. (Thanks Marika for pointing that out to me with your questions.)
- Hold on and act upon your ideals. You can not please everyone. But you will please the people who share your ideals and goals. And you will gain respect from others for having the audacity to not cower or hand-wring when your ideals are questioned.
- Love will find you some day. It doesn’t come in convenient times or locations. But wait and hold out for the best stuff. (But have I? Maybe or maybe not.)
- Continued steady accumulation of something doesn’t mean it will accumlate in a linear fashion.
- You must be in touch with both reality but also with ideas that define you.
- The tortoise was right. Working on anything in a steady continual pace achieves much more than quick bursts of anything. (Remember my stone tortoise story?)
- Treasure the time for rest. Adequate acts as a better multiplier of what you get done, than working longer hours. (To the discoverers of coffee beans, coffee and caffeine, thank you for helping those who broke their proper sleep cycles.)
- If you think there is a better way of doing things, there probably is. However the better may not be applicable to your situation for various reasons: lack of resources, restrictions et cetera.
- Let things happen. Don’t be disappointed when they don’t. (Thanks Caroline for that insight.)
The Chrome and the Cloud
Google today announced their Chrome OS project. The details are sketchy for this announcement. This Chrome OS apparently stems from the Chrome web browser that Google released last year. A sort of instant-on netbook operating system, that meshes the hardware with the Internet cloud. Google claims the OS project differs from the Android stack that runs on cellphones. And thats all we essentially know about this Chrome OS.
So left me put on my futurist hat and predict what Chrome OS will be. If I were building something like Chrome OS, I would grab an existing OS (say Linux). I would then strip out all the unnecessary extra services and applications. Then I would modify the desktop shell to essentially run a web browser (Chrome) connected to the web. I would include an internal web caching application (Google Gears anyone?) to handle the off-line situation. So there you go, netbook running Chrome OS would essentially act as a smart thin client (dummy terminal for you readers who remember the 70’s). And the server would live on the Internet cloud.
Wonder how such a device would feel like? Grab a Nokia N810 or N800 and you’ll have a closer feel to a mobile cloud computing device. Congratulations to Google to helping bring true heterogeneous cloud computing and its advantages to the common man.
Tieing Loose Ends Together
Its been another busy day. I’m wishing it was more productive in terms of work. But I did arrange and find out all the information I needed to find out. I wrote some e-mails, learned about EJBs, and a few other odds and ends here and there. I guess it one of those days to inspire and gather the loose bits together, and tie it altogether. Still upbeat and fairly optimistic even thought I have enough reason to feel bummed out today.
I wish could write up something more concrete but nothing comes to mind. Oh well off to play soccer now. That should hopefully clear my mind and refresh my soul.
Inbound Tasks
I got up this morning, or rather crawled out of bed this morning. I didn’t expect today to be the grandest of days. Nor did I expect today as the worst of days. I expected that for once I could relax this week, and just take it one day at a time. When I logged onto my machine this morning, I noticed first a large number of e-mails. Then the existing pile of tasks. And the message from one of my friends, that I might have a huge event to go to. A event that requires preparation, time and expenditure of financial resources. In mortal terms, I have enough to keep me busy for this entire week. And I’m a bit overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of it all. If I don’t roll up my sleeves and get to work soon, then I’m going to have a pack of snarling, salivating tasks all over me in the matter of a single day. Help.
I’m not worried, cause I can handle the load. (Assuming nothing else doesn’t pop-up.) I’m a bit cross that I’m waking up this morning, to the realization that a shitload of work is heading me way. Oh well, I need to be expedient, and hope for the best. Wish me luck.
New Site for justCheckers
I’m setting up a new site for the justCheckers project. The only real good reason for my working at all on this project, is simply to build a portfolio. As a software developer, I want to show to others that I can code. And that my code is clean, elegant and professional. I also want to show that I can write my own web applications. So I am writing the justCheckers website as a PHP, MySQL DB enabled application. All using proper XHTML, CSS and a touch of AJAX. The site is a work in progress. I’m not planning to build an entire flexible CMS, rather I plan on building a custom site.
Red Hat is Community?
I don’t do this often, but I must say Red Hat’s new ad is pretty rad. Now Red Hat isn’t the only ones building community. But this one video explains Red Hat’s modus operandi. And it is quite catchy!
Happy Birthday Canada
Today again, we Canadians celebrate Canada Day. This day marks Canada’s 142nd anniversary as a nation separate of Great Britain. So Happy Birthday Canada! I’m off to chill and relax for the day.
Crazy Busy
I’m going to have to keep these next upcoming posts short. I am a bit overwhelmed at the moment, with the sheer amount of things going on at the same time. I still want to try to keep going forward on the projects already in progress. But I will not add anything new to my plate for the next few weeks. I’m seriously planning a trip to Europe this year. Planning this trip will take quite some effort. Still a short update is in order.
I got meet up my university friend Rob yesterday. Have not talked to him in ages. I did spend a long time with him. But it was great to talk to him again, and I needed someone in a similar position to my own to bounce ideas off of.
I started to compile some notes for my novel. I wrote down most of the background of the novel. Now I plan on completing my notes and sketching out the plot. Then the serious work writing can begin. As for programming, I’m working on a PHP powered website for justCheckers. Also I am slowly reading through a book on coding C++ and Qt, along with a silly application I plan on writing to learn the Qt framework.
Rolling a Katamari
I had a great weekend. I got to meet a few new people. Made quite a few people jealous by walking around with some quite attractive ladies. No, I am not suddenly dating multiple girls or anything crazy like that. Just made a few friends, and went for a few walks with them. Them being attractive in my case was only a bonus. Even thought I feel kind of dirty for thinking this… but… I had fun making other people that I have something that other’s want, even if I’m totally just posing. 😀 Sometimes I like being perceived to being on the other side of the equation. Whether or not the perception is real or not doesn’t matter, at least not in these cases.
That aside, I’ve recently become addicted to a game for my cellphone. Rolling with Katamari is ridicilously addictive. I know the game does not break any new ground. Katamari Damacy exisited for quite some time. But I like the concept of growing a rolling ball by consuming larger and larger objects. The beginning of each level starts off slowly. You can’t absorb all the neat big items. You have to start small and build up. After a while you become a massive rolling, all consuming ball of goodness. This seems analogous to life. Start small, accumulate, save and with some patience, effort and good tactics, you too can become unstoppable. Just like the Katamari games luck and positioning help you achieve more in less time.