I've been finding it hard to finish blog entries - starting them and getting a lot of content is no problem, the only issue is reigning in the subject matter so I actually finish.

So I'm going to go with a very well-defined topic just to get back in the habit of actually finishing my writing. That topic is... what I did this morning.

The day's only half over, but here's what I did so far:

  • Got up.
  • Finished writing an asdf description for a Common Lisp MUA. I gave up on this by noon, largely because cl-ncurses has absolutely no documentation.
  • Read Joel and Jeff (part of the group of ".NET Hackers I respect") on Paint Cans and VC.
  • Read the first 15 pages of chapter 1 in ANSI Common Lisp on the bus.
  • Registered for Physics and International Relations in the fall, and dropped PHP (can't take over 19 credits ... sorry, PHP, but I'm learning more outside of class anyway)
  • Got some of my textbooks from Amazon. Yay for saving money.
  • At work, I upgraded Pylons1 to 0.9.6.
  • I then fixed all the things that broke because of said upgrade.
  • In particular, I had to change all of my response-writing magic so the PDF to get sent with the right headers.
  • Did a few service requests from Client Services.
  • Went to lunch, got advice on my assertiveness.
  • I wrote this.

This afternoon, I have plans which are still changing.

I shall now decisively end this post.

  1. Note to Pylons devs: Your website ... ugh. Confluence ... more ugh. It was near-impossible to find where I could do an SVN checkout from. The only place indicated on the mailing list post was the Upgrading wiki article, which turns out to not have the relevant information on how to actually upgrade Pylons. I stumbled on the right link by blind luck after a very frustrating fifteen minutes. I was about to barge onto IRC - to find a download link! ↩