More coding

I tamed the RTE \o/*! That makes 11/30 patches.

Also did a few commits, and now it is time for bed.

I feel my problem getting started on Bug 117 is because I'm suffering from blank-paper-itis -- the feeling of anxiety when faced with a blank sheet of paper, because you don't know where to start. I have batted about several ideas for implementation in my mind, and I'm not satisfied with any of them. But I have picked one now, and am running with it, on the assumption that something is better than nothing, and that if this implementation crashes and BURNS on me, it will at least break my current inertia, and I can easily pick another way (with one less possibility to worry about).


* hopefully not famous last words?

Identity separation and combination and whatever

I usually try to separate "afuna" from my real life identity, and it works, but I'm beginning to find it limiting. It's literally stopping me from doing a few things I want to do, either because I'm lazy, or I can't decide which identity to do things under.

I want to join a couple of local user groups, but I have been putting it off because I can't decide whether doing so is work (so RL identity) or play ("afuna") to use. I also want to follow along workmates on twitter and whatever, but no way am I using my current twitter account for that. (And once invites are less scarce, I want to get a wave invite under my RL name, just so that I can connect to workmates as well). And occasionally I wish that I had my code under my RL name, just because it would be nifty on my resume :-) But I don't want to create any more linkage than I already have, because a lot has managed to creep in over the years.

I've set up email accounts under my RL identity, but I have very little activity under them because I'm so busy doing other good stuff to maintain... that kinda hurts my resume I guess? I strongly suspect it does.

So. It's too much work to keep up separate identities, but it's too much risk to combine the two, and I'm back where I started (unable to act on a few of my interests until I decide which of the two I'd rather have them under).

commenting

Hey all, as much as possible, please comment on my entries on DW rather than on LJ. (I've changed the footer on the crosspost to encourage that, as well)

Lately, I've been having trouble accessing LJ from home (I've been having trouble accessing a couple of sites, but LJ in particular ends up white-paging on me every few requests). Also, and maybe related to the first, my session keeps losing itself, and for various reasons, I find myself neglecting to log back in to LJ when I get logged out.

I have no intention of stopping crossposting, or of turning off comments on LJ entries, and I am still reading my friends page from work (*cough*). But what it adds up to is that I'm having difficulty responding to and managing my comments on LJ. So yeah, if you're trying to decide between replying on LJ or replying on DW, please do click on the links to DW at the bottom of each entry.

Thanks <3

A day's worth of Twitter ($10.00)

02:56:18	—	*pokes connection* tsk, I think I need to talk to our ISP soon.
10:48:53	—	cleaning out my facebook. I wonder if rejecting invites is a big nono etiquette bleh
10:55:30	—	@iruka11 hee! well application invites anyway, not friend invites. Wala pa namang nag-add sa akin na di ko kilala hehee.
10:56:20	—	using an alternative webmail package for work. I had forgotten how painful these could be! gmail certainly has spoiled me *grin*
11:07:52	—	@iruka11 heehehee okay
13:39:43	—	@ealden I think it's been down for a bit
13:40:31	—	neat! I'm converting dollars to peso \o/ money money money, la~
15:03:34	—	@kareila wow! nice! \o/
16:49:03	—	I have forgotten all I know about Spring. Therefore, I am starting at the very beginning with the docs at springsource. looking good so far
18:04:21	—	@llbbooks hah, got it. I won't answer any mysterious phone calls from you then ;-)

Total: 10 tweets

You can find me as afuna on Twitter.