It's another list-of-things post! Busy go-getters like me can't be bothered to write full paragraphs, you know. Soon, I won't even bother with punctuation.

We ate at the Claim Jumper in beautiful suburban Clackamas for Steve's birthday lunch today. NEVER eat at a Claim Jumper. Just.. trust me on this.

I swam two miles straight last night. Was aiming for 3000 yards, then figured I might as well go for the two (land) miles. I didn't check the time, but it felt like I kept my pace going through the whole thing, around 1:20 per 100.

I'm looking for something to replace Blogger and Flickr so that I have everything back on my own damn server again and I'm not part of some dreadful "community". What's the point of having a machine running (up 941 days) over at the server closet if all it's doing is serving mail? The GWT Google Toolkit looks really swell, and means I might not have to learn any stupid DHTML and Javascript and deal with browser bugs. Yeah, good luck.

I just glassed the skeg on the dory, which means we're just about to the fairing process. Then I have to figure out what to do on the inside, then paint, finish the oars and install their hardware, then we're good to go. I'm sure I'm missing something there..

After the endless frustration of Lost in Blue and my solemn oath to never play a game like that again, I fell victim to my masochistic streak and got the sequel. And, surprisingly, it looks like they ironed out a lot of the difficulties of the first one. You still spend a lot of time fishing and collecting firewood, and the girl will still starve to death in a cave filled with food and water, but I'm building a treehouse! A treehouse! Awesome!

# posted by Dave : 9:49 PM  0 comments

Somehow, I just can't bring myself to sign up for a yahoo account in order to keep using flickr. I already HAVE a yahoo account, actually, that I set up to join a mailing list, but I don't feel like I need to put any more eggs in that basket. I've got my own server whirring away in the closet (I hit 1000 days uptime in a few months!), so I can do the hosting myself no problem. It's starting to bother me that all of this stuff is over there on their drives, not on my own machine. What else does flickr do for me? The interface is snappy, but hasn't changed at all in the last two years. I'm getting tired of the white background. There may be some things I could do with the API, but I left web development for a good reason: it's a pain in the ass. The social aspect of it was fun at first—I even went to a couple of the local meetups and met some cool people—but now it just seems noisy and impersonal.

So that's the reason, one of the reasons, I haven't posted in a while. I have a couple things in the queue—floating the canoe, starting on the next boat—but I have to figure out a new workflow: I'm done with flickr.