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I've been sorta quiet recently since I've basically just been getting along normally. I've dropped out of several of the games I've been playing in; that should give me more free time to do constructive things like learn stuff and maybe *gasp* get back to work on compiling Grandpa's journals.
Work recently has been busy, which is quite nice, though some of the problems I've been running into make my head hurt. Things like making the C compiler on a system only executable by the root user. Silly. Makes it very hard for me to manage things on the system. That and all five of the systems in question are different sufficiently to cause different errors when I try to build my tool.
I'm always in search of new channels to route myself down for music, partially because so much of the music I love isn't exactly upbeat, and most of the upbeat music I hear makes me sick to my stomach. Listening to someone's music collection here at work (a lovely benefit of being on the campus network - people wander through for me to peruse, all the time) put me onto jazz. The problem with Jazz is that it deserves as many different colors as electronic music has, and few people make the appropriate distinctions... But, at least I found a foothold. Acoustic Alchemy's good stuff, upbeat, relaxed. I like being relaxed.
Last weekend Brian Matis pointed out a virtual desktop program that took advantage of the Panther features which allow you to do things like put two desktops on a cube and rotate it. I thought it was damn cool, picked it up, and started playing. Over the course of the last week I've gotten more men to make squeaky noises when they see that than I ever want to hear again, but it was a ball. And it got me interested in learning Objective-C again, so I can take this guy's program (it's open source) and tinker with it intelligently.
So much to do.
Work recently has been busy, which is quite nice, though some of the problems I've been running into make my head hurt. Things like making the C compiler on a system only executable by the root user. Silly. Makes it very hard for me to manage things on the system. That and all five of the systems in question are different sufficiently to cause different errors when I try to build my tool.
I'm always in search of new channels to route myself down for music, partially because so much of the music I love isn't exactly upbeat, and most of the upbeat music I hear makes me sick to my stomach. Listening to someone's music collection here at work (a lovely benefit of being on the campus network - people wander through for me to peruse, all the time) put me onto jazz. The problem with Jazz is that it deserves as many different colors as electronic music has, and few people make the appropriate distinctions... But, at least I found a foothold. Acoustic Alchemy's good stuff, upbeat, relaxed. I like being relaxed.
Last weekend Brian Matis pointed out a virtual desktop program that took advantage of the Panther features which allow you to do things like put two desktops on a cube and rotate it. I thought it was damn cool, picked it up, and started playing. Over the course of the last week I've gotten more men to make squeaky noises when they see that than I ever want to hear again, but it was a ball. And it got me interested in learning Objective-C again, so I can take this guy's program (it's open source) and tinker with it intelligently.
So much to do.
