I’m still having a hard time getting back into the swing of things after the MacHack/WWDC trip. I’m not sure exactly why it is, but I think it’s a cumulative effect. The client I’m working for is running behind on shipping software (that’s not much of a surprise in this business), which means that I’m fully employed for the summer. Sounds great, right? Well, I try to plan summers for lighter work so I can take in more Saints games. There’s the travel thing. Two conferences back-to-back is brutal. I find myself sometimes stopping and thinking and basically figuring out something I heard two weeks ago and am just now getting time to ponder. I’m not very happy with where I’m living - this house sucks in the summer, as the south wall gets no shade, and is dark, and ventilation wasn’t a consideration when the house got chopped up to be a 4-plex, so even though the overnight temp last night was in the 60s, I’m still running the A/C to keep it comfortable in here. I’ve started looking for a new house, but the mortgage banker I was going to work with is changing companies, so I’ve been asked to wait a few weeks. I could probably go on even longer, but it’s time to get some breakfast in me and then get to work. Oh well, here’s a few links…
- In the Temperament Wars of politics, the Dems are portrayed as nice guys, and the Reps as ideologues who will use any means to achieve the ends they desire. I don’t know if it’s as black and white as that, since there are politicians of both stripes who seem willing to use their power to strip us of our rights and make government more intrusive, but I would say that the Democrats tend to have an easier go of seeming like “nice guys”.
- Dutch mass spammer loses grip, goes down in flames. Cool. [fark!]
- Iran students cancel protest to mark 1999 unrest, so there won’t be a bunch of news of a slaughter in Iran today.