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It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee.

Faster than a speeding bullet point

  • Morning is not my friend--and I have struggled with this for so long that I have become all but convinced that I'm part of an evolutionary branch of humanity who stayed up late and kept the fire going while the day shift slept. Sometimes I think I should try making a career out of doing long-distance freelance work for another time zone whose morning starts several hours later than my own.

  • I knew that my iPod had a Notes menu fed from the Notes folder, but I didn't know that it did inter-note hyperlinks. This rocks my book-authoring socks.

  • The lack of a decent Python interpreter for PalmOS is making me want to learn Lisp again.

  • Taking screenshots of an iPod sucks. This does not rock my book-authoring socks.

  • Have I mentioned lately that I hate, hate, hate character encoding issues on the web? Mmm, ISO-8859-1 characters pasted into a file claiming to be UTF-8...

  • MJD's Higher Order Perl is out! And I also just noticed Randal's Perls of Wisdom Man, it's been a long, long time since I was last excited by Perl--and I used to live in it.

Archived Comments

  • Pete Prodoehl
    Back in my college days I had at least one semester where my classes ran from Noon to 9 PM, then I'd stay up until AM and wake up around 10 AM... That was the best schedule I ever had... And as for character encoding issues, yeah, I hear ya, try dealing with 5 years of 'badly formed content' in files on disk, in a Microsoft SQL database, and from an old HP that's still running. Nightmare, truly a nightmare.
  • Phillip Pearson
    Which time zone are you in? If it's PST, try doing consulting for New Zealand or Australian companies. The exchange rate isn't good for you, so you'll need to charge a LOT to make decent money, but you'll be able to sleep in ... Alternatively, pretend you're in New Zealand, and work for American companies remotely!
  • Mark Eichin
    The lack of a decent python is why my last PDA upgrade was to an (otherwise disappointing) wince ipaq (which will probably get repurposed as a linux box now that I have a Symbian phone with Amaretto and have actually written PDA-class apps with it...)
  • Aristotle
    Have you seen Pugs yet? It's the first Perl6 implementation, written in Haskell, and intended to work out the kinks in the specs for the later real Parrot-based implementation. But it's evolving jaw-droppingly fast. Autrijus started on it a month ago, then the project started picking up members two weeks ago, and it already implements a substantial subset of Perl6. It's like all those years of waiting have culminated in an implementational flashbang.
  • Aristotle
    Hmm, my link was stripped. That would be http://pugscode.org to get the scoop.