Sunday, May 27, 2001
Didn’t make it to church this morning; I woke up with a bad headache. At first I thought I had a hangover, but I’d only consumed two gulps of champagne and half a glass of Chardonnay the night before. Weird. I decided to clear my head by watching some anime, so I watched Cowboy Bebop (“Mushroom Samba,” to be exact) and episodes 7 and 8 of Bubblegum Crisis 2040. Good stuff all around; I’ll try to post […]
Saturday, May 26, 2001
Great. Judging from the wheezing sounds, Lady’s power supply needs to be replaced. The poor thing’s stuck into a little space underneath my computer desk, and it’s got to be hot and poorly-ventilated under there. Lemme check its internal temperature…hmmm, only 75.8 degrees Farenheit. Not too bad. Anyway, I dropped off my submission packet for “Anime Explained” at the post office before Coffee and Classics (everything in that manila envelope […]
Friday, May 25, 2001
The company as a whole hit a bunch of milestones this morning, so we were all allowed to go home early. I went straight to the gym, did weights (is there any better term than “did weights”?), and tried to exercise on a stair-stepper machine. Unfortunately, I quickly discovered that I can’t read while I step, just because of the design of the machine, so I spent 15 minutes quite bored, always stepping upwards. After 15 […]
Thursday, May 24, 2001
I’ve already received one set of comments on Paste, which I plan to implement tonight if I get a chance. I’ll be awfully busy tonight, though; I need to mow the lawn during this brief respite from the rain, and I should clean the house. About those comments on Paste, though. The commenter pointed out that some pieces of the UI can overlap. When I asked for clarification, he explained that if the window is […]
Wednesday, May 23, 2001
I don’t like sleep. I have this negative mental image of sleep robbing me of productive hours. Hours when I could be doing things. Last night, I didn’t get to bed until 1:30 a.m. Partially it was my attitude towards sleep, and partly it was the dreaded drug known as programming. It’s like I told Saalon the other day; I treat coding the same way that I treat creative writing. A program […]
Tuesday, May 22, 2001
There’s been a lot of talk on the AtheOS developer list about my proposed document format for Clio (the AtheOS word processor I’m writing). I initially made it XML-like, and there are enough benefits to making it legal XML that I decided to make it conform to the XML standard. However, I don’t plan on using a generic XML parser, or on following the principles behind XML too closely. It’s not that XML is bad; […]
Monday, May 21, 2001
Sheesh, I’m getting behind in my diary entries. Sunday was quite uneventful, though. After an excellent service in the morning at The Falls Church, and a sermon on fasting, I spent most of the (drizzly) day mucking about with AtheOS programming and writing. Well, that’s not really true. Saalon shot me a heartfelt e-mail about an argument we’d had the night before over a script he wrote. He felt worried and just sort of lost […]
Monday, May 20, 2001
Sun Got some feedback today from Saalon on “Anime Explained,” and have been making a number of changes to the article as a result. I’ve decided to take the “history” section and make it a sidebar, and I’ll add a new section on the positive aspects of anime. I’ve also been increasingly interested in writing some present-day fiction. Perhaps it’s due to my recent subscription to the DorothyL (a mailing list devoted to mystery literature). No matter; I still want […]
Saturday, May 19, 2001
Well, I met with “Dave” this morning (remember, the guy I met at B&N?). That was an experience. He’s involved in a sort of MLM business, but based online and using discounts at online stores. The idea is that I sign on and get discounts at various stores. If I sign on anyone else, then when they buy stuff, I would get a small percentage kickback, as sort of a referral bonus. If I sign on a lot of people and they […]
Friday, May 18, 2001
Well, this morning Kurt Skauen answered my plea for help, explaining why my test AtheOS application kept bombing out. Now it runs; it just doesn’t display the window. :sigh: Back to checking every single character of my code for a typo…. Of course, I should be using this time to work on the design of the AtheOS word processor I’m trying to make. I know what I want to do, but I really should get it […]