An Experiment in Scotch

Only slight improve­ments over yesterday’s pro­duc­tiv­ity in that I wrote a tiny bit of code today and spent a decent amount of time brain­storm­ing. My plan to not surf the web any until late in the day was not imple­mented at all. I believe that I am addicted to the inter­net. How­ever, while most of …

Fri­day and today were worth­less in regard to actu­ally writ­ing any soft­ware. I have done sev­eral use­ful things today, just none related to soft­ware. Part of the prob­lem has to do with the habits learned at Bill­Ma­trix, e.g. start­ing the day by catch­ing up on news and what­not. That is a deal killer if there …

Today, I’m strug­gling with moti­va­tion. Just haven’t been able to get going on much of any­thing, other than read­ing Neil Sperry’s e-garden newslet­ter. Part of that has to do with a sched­uled lunch at 11:30 but part just seems to be gen­eral lack of desire. I thought a run this morn­ing would help but not …

Today has been far more pro­duc­tive than yes­ter­day. The site is still ass-ugly but the func­tion­al­ity is com­ing along decently. It’s still a strug­gle to get into the groove and mostly that’s due to hav­ing to learn Mako, SqlAlchemy, Pylons and Post­greSQL all at the same time. My infor­ma­tion over­load switch has been thrown and …