14 Mar 2007
Is it a placebo effect if you don’t remember why the effects are occurring? I just glanced at my calendar for tomorrow after having briefly gone to bed then got up thinking I had unread/written emails, spent a while doing that, then realising it’s 1.15am and I’m not at all tired. Then, thinking back through the evening and recalling that sugary black liquid was involved at some point.
Clearly, the only option is to become addicted to the stuff. What’s bizarre is that it is available everywhere, people don’t think twice about consuming or offering it, and yet (for me at least) it has greater immediate consequences than smoking tobacco (bad smell aside). I will be a wreck by tomorrow evening.
I’ve already started the week inexplicably exhausted (I have been sleeping more sensibly/normally the last few days/week than I have been for the last month) without the involvement of caffeine, and fortunately have had time enough to respond to that exhaustion (I had 14 hours sleep last night) with little impact to my scheduled commitments, but I still drank most of a bottle of this stuff without thinking. And I’m not at all physically ill, with the exception of something that looked like a very slight cold late last week. I have no reason to be tired (and, conversely, no reason to be this awake with the exception of that stuff).
Anyway… I’m now going to try and go sleep a while. Dreaming of people who aren’t projects, and Christ as a judge, as well as a saviour who takes the punishment deserved by men, Macbeth and dark performance on a daylight stage, and inexplicably out-of-sync databases.
13 Mar 2007
It’s finally starting to actually look okay. Amazingly, it’s become a resource that people will actually readily use — one of my TACKLES kids (he’s 11 years old) said that he’d just realised he could use the website to find out when TACKLES were having socials on Friday nights. Even better is that pretty much everyone on staff is prepared and willing to use the website to promote things. Its impact will always be pretty intangible, but it seems to be aiding the way we communicate quite a bit.
12 Mar 2007
There are some things that just don’t come easily…
10 Mar 2007
Outlook is a Microsoft product. Hotmail is a Microsoft product.
These sorts of things really shouldn’t be possible in this day and age. Grumble grumble. I may need to (very reluctantly) stop sending email in UTF-8. UTF-8 should be mandatory, seriously.
| And that’d be another geeky post. : |
09 Mar 2007
Wow… the timing is so bizarre I can barely believe it.
I stumbled across this post announcing support for OpenID on the Pixelsoup blog of JadedPixel, makers of Shopify. I’m not entirely convinced this even makes sense here, but whatever — it’s fascinating.
On the plus side, Shopify appeared to have disappeared off the face of the planet (in terms of stagnation) for a couple of months there, but their blog at least is alive and kicking. Certainly not for consumption by tomorrow’s audience, but potentially good for some e-commerce applications.
There is no WordPress of online shop software, which is slightly irritating. A great opportunity for a very high profile open source project: take OsCommerce and make it user-friendly and generally not-crappily-interfaced right out of the box! WordPress has done a few innovative feature things, but I reckon most of its success has been built on the grounds that it’s free software (heck, it wouldn’t exist if it couldn’t have forked B2) and the work they’ve poured into the interface.
I’m posting too much geeky stuff. Something non-geeky to come soon, I hope.