Yeah, so I’m sitting here, wrapping up my homework for the night, and am realizing that, for as much as I complain about things, I really have it pretty good for now.
My health isn’t great, but I’m more mobile than quite a few people out there. I’m a little overweight, but if I can just watch what I eat more (and this whole Weight Watchers thing helps) and exercise more, I’ll have that set.
I may not have a job, but I have enough money saved up to take care of things for now. Of course, you’re always welcome to donate to me if you feel compelled to, for some odd reason. Or, if you want to work with a better, cheaper hosting company, talk to me, I can set you up nicely cheaper than these bigger companies. Anyways, that’s a whole other conversation.
I’m blessed with intellect. This isn’t to say that I’m feeling particularly conceited, but I am quite skilled with development and most things related to computers. Sure, I’m no super guru in everything, but the field is so varied that I don’t think anyone could ever know everything about computers. You really have to focus on an area, like development, system administration, and even within those disciplines are sub-disciplines, such as Unix administration, hardware administration, network, web development, database development – the list goes on. While I think I’m focusing on web development (and a touch of design, but not much as you can see right now), I’m still getting great exposure to administrative tasks.
I have my own little network, and that’s just awesome. My main desktop is a Windows 98 machine, that’s spinning away with Winamp right now, playing a random mix from my plethora of music. My old Dell Latitude with the hosed video cable makes for a gread Red Hat Linux 8.0 box, and so I have some various things processing away there. Finally, on my laptop (where I am now), I have it sitting on a small table with a huge NEC MultiSync XE21 hooked up to it, along with a full keyboard and mouse, effectively turning it into another desktop, and it’s resources are free to take care of whatever I need to do, be it web browsing, writing out this entry, instant messages, and my homework too.
Tonight’s homework included detailing out my area of the huge software engineering project for my class, and MS Project sucks the memory, so it was nice to have a relatively dedicated machine for that purpose. Tomorrow’s homework will involve Visio, and so it’s nice again to have effectively dedicated hardware.
I’ve been toying around with this idea for a website, something rather simple but convenient. I surf the web and read approximately anywhere from 15-25 webcomics per day. The more I think about it, the software I’m wanting to produce would actually work for any sort of websurfing people do, be it comics, blogs, news sites, etc. You would log into the website, then click on a view button, and it would load up a website in the same style that About.com does when you view a website that’s offsite for them. A small frame at the top of the window would provide basic navigation, such as “Back” and “Forward” in your list of sites to visit, along with a centered dropdown to skip to a specific site. I guess my major motivation for this is that the comic websites I visit aren’t terribly interactive, and as such it’s just going from one to the next, with a minimal click here and there to ensure I didn’t miss anything in the archives, etc. Anyone out there who reads this blog think that sounds like something useful? I might whip up a small version for myself regardless of public opinion, but if others would use it, I could easily set up a website for it.
That’s it for now – I started this entry before midnight, and now it’s just after, so that means it’s probably time to go get some sleep.