Why The Procrastination 4

Posted by psykotedy
on Saturday, November 03

I’ve been waiting to send out notification of my blog going up because it’s not perfect. This is a trait I need to change am changing. In that vein, I’m going to let go of the wait-till-it’s-perfect mentality and send off notification of this place while acknowledging what is yet to be done (for all of the Paul Graham that I read, I should already have the iterative product mentality).

Without further babbling, the to-do list for this blog really only consists of two items at this point (though, I’m certain others will arise quickly): getting an RSS feed working, and getting a sidebar working

As far as other projects, I have a few floating around in my head:
  • Web-based catalog of my CDs (Pete’s been waiting for this one for a while…and the wait will soon be over)
  • Get PARC up to Java 5 compliance and re-weave it with Spring (another one on my list of threats to Pete)
  • Web-based catalog of my DVDs
  • Web-based to-do software
  • Gmail-like email client for the desktop (this is shooting way high, but what the hell, eh?)

Getting this blog up and running is really inspirational to me, and I see myself blowing through these projects (with the probable exception of the email client). The inspiration to finally get this blog running, though, came from Phil, and I can’t think him enough for helping me to make the time to do it.

Anyway, I think I’ve babbled enough for one post—maybe even enough for two!

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  1. BryceNovember 04, 2007 @ 10:27 AM
    Maybe for three! Congratulations are in order though. Glad to see it up. Just don't start posting pictures of kittens.
  2. AftonNovember 04, 2007 @ 01:26 PM
    way to go! So proud. It's good to get something accomplished that you've wanted for a long time.
  3. AndrewNovember 04, 2007 @ 09:48 PM
    I can't help but feel that you're inflating your "to do" list by seperating your web-based catalog of CDs from your web-based catalog of DVDs... In all seriousness if you'll be bringing us the quality of musings you produced when you broke your jaw without having to break any bones - I'm looking forward to it.
  4. MatthewNovember 06, 2007 @ 07:34 PM
    Damn you are ambitious! My own projects were going to post pithy comments once a month and complain about work... I guess I better step it up if I'm going to keep up with you. If you really want to impress, I wouldn't mind you putting up an online check-out system for your CDs and DVDs so I can easily indicate which ones I'd like to borrow from you. Way to go on getting started, though. It's the hardest part by far.
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