Clark and I spent a large portion of the afternoon and early evening working together on some pieces of code that will, in the near future, represent some of the most important chunks of a university portal. At one point during the process we borrowed a tiny chunk of code from the headspace and I found myself trying to explain it. Clark's nearly immediate reaction was something along the lines of: "It's a good thing to keep a log of your day". This got me thinking... maybe it would be a good thing (tm) to actually start doing some of that sort of thing,

It occurred to me later on that it is a little silly to impose an artificial constraint like that on myself. On the other hand, it would be nice, from a personal historical standpoint, if I were a little more focused on logging some of the moments of my life. It would be kind of an interesting record to have someday. In the end I suppose it's all the same thing really. This fairly random collection of thoughts does, in some way, catalog a small portion of my life.

Nostalgia, however, is probably overrated. ;)

...

I noticed kind of a weird little thing about myself this evening: If I get an ICQ message and I have my sound turned on, for some odd reason I feel like I have to drop whatever I am doing and answer immediately. If, on the other hand, I have my volume turned down or am N/A and get a message that pressure isn't there. Talk about strange conditioning. *shrug*

Extra

Your mother doesn't work here!

Today's musical recommendation is Sneakerpimps _Becoming X_. I had never heard this album prior to today... I feel like I've been missing out. I can't tell you anything about the depth of the lyrics or sny of the band's vitals. What I can tell you is it is _very_ mellow and I like it alot. Thanks to Bobby for unintentionally introducing me to this.

It's funny in kind of a sad way: I recommend and link all of these web design/usability sites yet look at my own pages... Ah well. It's just another of those things, I suppose.

Links

Jezebel's Mirror
I don't know what to say about this site. Actually, that's not true. It's odd and oddly haunting. I'm not sure why. I subscribe to the K10k mailing list and this link was lurking in today's mailing. Worth a look, definitely.
I don't have the password but the path is... chain-linked. So, if you've got time, set that tone to synch. Tap in a code.
loophole
Comments season opens in northeastern ok...
I'm going to go hide.

As you can see I've added a really rudimentary comments interface. Use it if you have something to comment on and let me know what you think.

-j
m4dd4wg
Boomer Sooner!
Whoo-Hoo! We can comment now! Does HTML work on the comments? I'm guessing, so since Jared's got line breaks in his message!

I want to start ranting about the Big XII championship, but this site's a little more erudite, so I'd be afraid to log my workday, since unless I have an imminent deadline, I'm pretty passive, answering emails & talking to PR flacks/marketing people on the phone, taking notes. (I write for a computer magazine) Then day or two before deadline, I do my best to organize notes and press releases, attempting to turn the last few days' learning into articles.

When I was younger (like 20 or 21) I bet I would use a lot of this unstructured downtime to work on more creative projects like my old 'zine or funky website, but I've sort of drifted away from that urgent desire to get paid while actively pursuing personal interests. I can remember working at Saxon Publishers, proofreading, and waiting for an opportune moment to liberate the copy machine and make 100 copies of my 'zine. For whatever reason, I don't want to make trouble for myself on the job anymore.
everstar
work log
I actually do keep a log sheet at work; I have to. It's a tally of all the transcripts I do every week. This week's tally goes thusly: Monday: 186 regular transcripts Tuesday: 230 regular transcripts, one extension Wednesday: 158 regular transcripts, nine extensions Thursday: 123 regular transcripts, one extension Friday: 72 regular transcripts (so far), six extensions whew! I'd love to be able to do other things at work, but I'm just a keyboard jockey. I basically type eight hours a day, five days a week. I think my hands are going to fall off. :) anyway, I don't keep more of a log other than the tally sheet because a) it'd be redundant, and b) it'd be boring as hell.
fathom
Logs, Music, and ICQ
You'd be really surprised about personal logs. I've pretty much had to start keeping a log of everything I do at work. They seem to want to know where the hell I've been all day. And for the most part it works out fine. I keep a sheet of paper for every day and it describes what I did or wanted to get done in that day. It doesn't really apply in a personal situation, but it works for work. I discovered the Sneaker Pimps around the time that The Saint came out in movie theaters. Thanks to the Saint Soundtrack I in turn got the Sneaker Pimps cd. However, I did hear somewhere in the music grapevine that the Sneaker Pimps are no longer together. Truely sad because they had some great music. I must admit that I'm the same way when it comes to ICQ. If I hear a message I'm going to drop everything and go at least see what it's about. I guess it's a good thing that I can't stay on the net all the time while I'm at home. I'd never get anything done around the house.
jaeger
i'm a lumberjack, and i'm ok...

i can't imagine logging my day. i generally work on so many different things at once that not only does it take me a long time to finish any one project, but the log would be so confusing it'd hurt my head afterwards to look at it. ah well.

as for icq, i find that i ignore it more when the sound is enabled, rather than the other way around. go figure.

m4dd4wg
Freebies
This a little silly, but I have a books to give away. The postage might be expensive, but, hey, so are the books. Addison Wesley just sent me the following titles:

SSL and TLS: designing and building secure systems
The Wireless Application Protocol: Writing and Applications for the Mobile Internet
OSPF Complete Implementation

I also have a Unisys E-Action Server Calendar to give away. I suppose you could also come by my office in Fort Washington, PA, and pick them up, but I doubt that's really an option.

If yer interested email me
lucas
I'm a Unix Admin and I'm ok
Well, I don't keep a log of my day. I'm afraid that might be part of my orginization problems. I find that I spread myself thin on a lot of projects. I usually will get organized before the project due date and do a fine job (I learned that much in college). However, I like a lot of aspects of my work and I tend to want to do EVERYTHING. I have no desire to keep a log of it though. Now a log of my thoughts/feelings/life is a totally different story. I could do it, but I'm not motivated enough. I'll leave that up to you Jared :) As for ICQ, I feel very much like one of Pavlov's dogs.