or really, the lack of both....
i've got a ton of stuff i really should be working on, for a variety of different projects, but i never seem to have any free time, and when i do have time i don't seem to have motivation. i end up sitting around watching bad tv and surfing the web.
does anyone have any time/motivation they could lend me? it would really help...
i don't think i've ever been as tired, wet, and cold as i was at the end of midnight madness this weekend.
a day of running around boston in the pouring rain will do that.
but i also don't remember the last time i had so much fun ;-)
even though we lost...
so i have 3 radiators in my apartment, and since they turned the heat on, all of them have been hissing, to one extent or another.
the one in my bedroom was the worst, and the superintendent fixed that (granted, it was after i started to actually see steam, but whatever).
the other two were annoying, but not overwhelmingly so. the guy had told me to call and have someone look at the others later, since he hadn't brought the correct parts to do it then (and it was late).
today, someone was supposed to come by to handle the other two. they appear to have fixed the one in the kitchen (which i couldn't care less about, i spend like 0 time in the kitchen), but the one in the living room is actually worse.
and the person i talked to today says he'll have someone come by tomorrow to fix the other one.
sure he will.
right.
the new version of NetNewsWire has my blog listed in it's sites list.
cool.
it also has some neat bandwidth usage reduction changes, so anyone who uses it should upgrade.
again, i'd just like to point out that this program is so damn cool that i'm actually looking forward to the pro version coming out so i can pay for it. i don't really need any of the features he's talking about adding (although a few of them are neat), but i feel like even the lite version is worth paying for.
so i got a replaytv.
so far, i like it.
there's still a very intermitent problem with it not being able to change the channel on my cable box 100% of the time. i managed to tweak the settings so it doesn't happen much (i couldn't make it happen when i tried), but it still managed to fuck up recording "that 70's show" today. perhaps i'll call tech support tomorrow and see if they can help.
so i validated my rss feeds, and fixed the problems that were there...
someday i need to go through and fix the accessability problems my blog has, but so far i've been too lazy to fix up the old MT templates i've been using. oh well, a problem for another day.
chris finally released an alpha version of waterlily.
it's pretty neat... not quite ready for me to use it full time, but it shows a ton of promise. once he gets some syntax coloring of the incoming messages going and a way of notifying you when a message comes in for a given tab, it'll be great!
i'm also glad to have a cocoa app writen by someone who knows what they're doing to look at. the code is rough in some places, but a lot of it is damn cool.
spent some time this weekend playing with the GUI development tools for OS X. i have to say that they have got to be the best rapid application development tools i've ever seen. it's just too damn easy to put together a professional looking app. with a bit of poking around and a good book i've been able to get everything i've tried working in a matter of minutes.
it's remarkable that NeXT was able to take such incredible technology and still not make it a comercial success. i swear, it's things like that which make it depressing to be in the computer industry. often, the better technology just doesn't succeed.
oh well, at least apple has managed to give it new life.
now i just have to come up with a good application to write...