iPhoning It In
One of my major problems with this blog is I haven’t gotten routine in writing to the point where it becomes an engrained habit. As soon as I start becoming a bit more regular in posting, I end up going out of town for a week for an intensive on-site client visit. Then I return and am wiped, but still trying to maintain productivity and writing falls by the wayside. Next thing I know, it’s a couple weeks later and typing up a blog entry seems like starting a marathon cold.
Yes, the iPhone looks insanely slick. No, I’m not going to be an early adopter this time. I did buy the original iPod the week it came out, but however much geek lust it inspires, an iPhone is not in the cards for me this year.
I do have to replace my ailing stone-age phone from 2001. If the iPhone were available now, it would be extra difficult to resist. June makes it easier, as does the fact that I’m on Sprint versus Cingular. Current strategy: retire medieval phone in the coming weeks with something cheap on a one-year contract, probably flip to second-generation iPhone model in the first half of 2008.
I have two days left to ping-pong internal monologues regarding the pros and cons of attending the 2007 Game Developers Conference. On the pro side, now that E3 is gone, this is the primary opportunity to catch up with folks, network, and do business development. On the con side, the sessions get less useful every year and the convention gets more commercial, making it purely about the networking benefits. And the main con is cost: both of attending and the break from billable hours while attending. Ordinarily, it would be a no-brainer. But, the timing seems just off in terms of doing business development with where I’m at right now, and my middleware projects are nowhere near ready to try and flog. Still, I’m pretty sure I need to bite the bullet and go.
January has been a frustrating month. I’ve continued the trend of being able to get everything done that I’ve absolutely needed to get done, but I still feel like I’m falling behind of a bunch of things that I really want to get done. Even taking the new expansion pack into account, I can’t really blame World of Warcraft either. I think it’s time for some readjustment, and part of that is going to involve posting status updates with as much detail as I can muster, barring confidential or overly embarrassing detail. This should help me get into a posting rhythm again, albeit a bit dry. That, however, might help inspire me to do something interesting with my posting instead of, well, what I have been doing.
Coming tomorrow: a mini book/movie review round-up of what I’ve consumed in the past few months. For now, I must put head down and bang out several hours of solid code.
Yes, the iPhone looks insanely slick. No, I’m not going to be an early adopter this time. I did buy the original iPod the week it came out, but however much geek lust it inspires, an iPhone is not in the cards for me this year.
I do have to replace my ailing stone-age phone from 2001. If the iPhone were available now, it would be extra difficult to resist. June makes it easier, as does the fact that I’m on Sprint versus Cingular. Current strategy: retire medieval phone in the coming weeks with something cheap on a one-year contract, probably flip to second-generation iPhone model in the first half of 2008.
I have two days left to ping-pong internal monologues regarding the pros and cons of attending the 2007 Game Developers Conference. On the pro side, now that E3 is gone, this is the primary opportunity to catch up with folks, network, and do business development. On the con side, the sessions get less useful every year and the convention gets more commercial, making it purely about the networking benefits. And the main con is cost: both of attending and the break from billable hours while attending. Ordinarily, it would be a no-brainer. But, the timing seems just off in terms of doing business development with where I’m at right now, and my middleware projects are nowhere near ready to try and flog. Still, I’m pretty sure I need to bite the bullet and go.
January has been a frustrating month. I’ve continued the trend of being able to get everything done that I’ve absolutely needed to get done, but I still feel like I’m falling behind of a bunch of things that I really want to get done. Even taking the new expansion pack into account, I can’t really blame World of Warcraft either. I think it’s time for some readjustment, and part of that is going to involve posting status updates with as much detail as I can muster, barring confidential or overly embarrassing detail. This should help me get into a posting rhythm again, albeit a bit dry. That, however, might help inspire me to do something interesting with my posting instead of, well, what I have been doing.
Coming tomorrow: a mini book/movie review round-up of what I’ve consumed in the past few months. For now, I must put head down and bang out several hours of solid code.
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Sunday January 28, 2007 at 11:45am