Greetings. I now know what being a few days ahead is like. It's good for doing timeless stuff, but these rants are not cool. You see I'm 3 days ahead and so I just upload the new files everyday. I don't get to explain my opinion on something because then it will get confusing. Writing 3 days ahead? What brain surgeon came up with that one? Well, I simply can't do it.
For every process there may be many ways to do it, but only one way can be chosen at a time.
My server is up, but my ftp is still down. So this news is not exactly up to date. But I want to get it down for the record. It's a bit exciting. The hard parts of Demo 1 are finished. I have 2 easy technologies to add and the rest is creating the models. That means that I am just 2 days behind schedule if I can do the easy stuff tomorrow. 2 days behind is nothing. In fact, the models I am doing tomorrow will be part of not just demo 1, but demo 2. So demo 2 will likely take less than a week. Even though I plan to spend time at 2600 on Friday, I can still make the Saturday night deadline for demo 2. That would be really amazing to me. There are times when I throw myself around and verbally abuse myself (half are untrue, but definately unproductive). Missing deadlines can be a horrible experience. It often compounds upon itself; it makes easy deadlines into more missed deadlines. If a missed deadline can destroy a person's confidence, I say that person is better off ignoring the deadline entirely. The confidence will motivate the person to do the work better -- in the end, faster.
Long time no see. I promised a page a day for 40 days and I stopped. Well, I didn't stop on purpose. My server died. It's back up as of 11:15 AM Saturday Jan 31, 2004. In fact, javantea.com was up before keenspace.com was. Funny, isn't it? Well, not extremely funny. I don't like laughing at others' misfortune in light of my own and my dependence on those people. I've been hosting javantea.com on Keenspace for a few years, but it has been more my secondary rather than my primary until just a few months ago. A few months ago, I lost my free primary site at students.washington.edu since I graduated. So I have been happily using Keenspace until a few days ago. My best wishes to the Keenspace crew as they work hard to fix this as fast they can. In fact, until they get the FTP working, you won't see this or yesterday's post. I was thinking of making a big manifesto about how we community members should take up our position as supporters of the service we use. But I decided that my budget is a bit tight for that. I can't exactly spend $60 here and $60 there and expect to survive the coming months. I know that one must spend money to make money, but it's silly to go on a spending spree when I am broke. But when I am less broke, I'll donate some cash to Keenspace. They may advertise on my site, but the service is worth quite a lot more to me. In fact, I have about 50MB of stuff here at JF. You may not notice, but this site has 321*2 + 5*5 pages with an decent sized image each (10-80kB each).
