New years resos update and 'tab sweep'

Feb. 15, 2007

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*I stole the phrase 'tab sweep' from Tim Bray.*

Resolutions

State of affairs

I'm about six weeks into the Project Plan, and I'm one for three:

• Feb 7 - Define web application project
• Feb 9 - Summary of 正確な文章の書き方 - 25% complete
• Feb 11 - Select beginner-intermediate piano piece - *one or two possible candidates acquired, haven't played through any of them yet

And coming up quick:

• Feb 16 - live set mix of MA:46 demo tracks (maybe 65% complete)
• Feb 22 - define math study plan (~10%)
• Feb 28 - Find Japanese Conversation Partner (haven't started)

Why this happened

I think it's simple - I overbooked myself by not taking into account all the demands on my limited resources that were NOT accounted for by the project plan - unfortunate things like work overload and an extremely disorganized apartment, and good things like preparations for the Phantom West show and spending quality time with my lovely girlfriend (who baked me heart shaped cookies for v-day - be jealous).

What I'm going to do about it

Slide all my milestones out a good bit, of course - I placed the dates with offhand guesses, and the whole process is a learning experience. If this were a project for work, I would be more concerned, as you ideally figure out how to manage your project schedule BEFORE tasks are late, but I am not going to hold my own feet to the fire for it this time.

Tab sweep

The idea of a tab sweep is that I sweep all of my open tabs in Firefox into a blog entry - it's not literal, my tabs are mostly stored on various sites around the net, but here are a few miscellaneous diversions:

Videos I've found notable on the YouTube:

link to playlist

A plaintext and version-control-based CMS I'll likely use for Neoglam in some capacity.

A fully open and manufacturer-supported linux distro for smartphones that I have been REALLY excited about since it was announced last year.

The deepest and most satisfying fighting game I've played - we just got these for the office to help us go pro:

The quality of VF competition at Revver is really excellent. And with that thought, the tab sweep is over. Thanks for coming by, and look forward to writing of more substance in the near future, including a piece I wrote for a Christian friend explaining why I am an atheist.

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