I'm discovering that the less free time I have, the more I get done. Yeah, that sounds like a truism, but I don't mean it that way. The more momentum I have, the less I tend to fuck off, and the more I get done in the same span of time. The more I let life demand of me, the more alive I become.

I know that lesson. I just forget it constantly.

While hacking away at the thicket, I had some spare cycles to change my lj layout. It's not brilliant, but it's solid and it feels right. About as functional a skin as I'm going to get without writing my own. Good timing, I suppose.

I want to unearth boomstick, dust it off, and do a little more work on it. Not as the meta content management system slash mission creep abortion that it was starting to become, though -- I just want to make it into what I want, what I need. I have the hunch that, if I write it cleanly, the potential for generalization will naturally follow. Or not. But either way, it'll be fine. It has a job to do, and that's to get out of the way and enable everything else.

Certain ancient ideas are stirring, looking for any opportunity to rise and take on lives of their own. The universe dances and flirts about, dropping tiny silken hints at my feet. It's a good thing.

You see, I'm only weird and neurotic and overly analytical of art when I'm not doing it. When I'm actually working on it, though, it's as fun and fluid and obvious as sex.

Well, usually...

And to round things out, here's another magical mystery video for your viewing enjoyment. Remember, kids, it'll take you less time to dig it then it will to ask what it is. You know you want to. ;)

Does there exist:

1.) A WebDAV client for Windows (that supports at least win2k),
2.) that is free,

and

3.) that doesn't TOTALLY SUCK?

I am learning that I can't afford to break momentum.

I'm starting to feel boomstick slipping. I've gone for weeks at a time in the past without doing any work on it, sometimes without even seriously thinking about it, but it existed in my mind as a priority, as something important that needed to be addressed, and in this way work wound up eventually getting done. This is different, though. I've worked on it within the last week, but over the past few days I've pushed it out of my mind, deliberately ignored it, deliberately de-prioritized it. This is partly because it's at a stage where it's a little bit of a pain in the ass, and partly because I'm trying to focus on doing other things right now and don't want it serving as a distraction. I've even been thinking about it as recently as yesterday, but again, it's been deprioritized, and I can already feel it beginning to die on the vine.

My intent is what keeps it significant and keeps it moving, even when I'm not touching the actual code. When I cannot muster enthusiasm, the last bit of work I've done on it, or doing a little bit of work on it to kill time maintains continuity, and gives me a boost until my intent refocuses. In this way, progress has been made over the course of the past four months or so. It's been halting progress, measured in stolen moments and tiny spurts of work, but it's been steady in its own casual way, and for the first time since I began I now feel that it is threatened.

I shall reassert the project as a priority, reassert my intent, and do something in the next day or two -- something small, something trivial, who cares what -- to cement that reality.

This week's to-do list:

1. Complete geode/imhoff integration at work.
2. Further work on boomstick (authentication, metadata management, stress testing, web update ui.)
3. Finalize Toronto plans (as much as is feasible.)
4. Found a world religion.

The first step of my content management system of tears is complete. Or, at least, it's Good Enough For Now. In honor of those who risked their lives that we might live free from the depravities of the evil dead, I have dubbed the project boomstick.

At the moment it's little more than a glorified wrapper around subversion -- even that kind of overstates it -- but it's still a useful step. It gets things rolling, and makes it much easier for me (or others) to update my little platoon of websites. What this means to you is that I'm going to post some pictures that I had sitting around on my hard drive:





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