Alan’s Kiloblog

I want to be your all day too, but if I had to choose, I’d be your afternoon. Testing custom sizes for YouTube rendering. While I’m doing so, listen to this.

When you are in the psychological moment for a particular project, something will beacon you to leave your moment, and expend that certainty and conviction elsewhere.

It is amazing. Is amazing that there is an economy for that sort of thing, but it is true, there are those that sense this. It is amazing how efficient these markets are.

Which is why I’ve decided that these are the following questions to ask, the next time I’m faced with an opportunity that does tie in with my stated agenda.

• This hasn’t worked before, is the first thing to state.
• How exactly will I benefit? Exposure doesn’t count. I get better exposure working on my turf.
• Who pays for it? It had better be all expenses paid, and then some, because I don’t have time to entertain.
• How much of what I’m doing are you aware of? Because, you might have got it into your head that New Orleans needs to be a component of your master plan, but if you haven’t done the research, I’m not going to change my position on matters to suit you.

Hint: If you’re thinking opportunity, be informed that I’m thinking crisis. I checked the Chinese dictionary, the are not the same word.

My routine. When I don’t have anything better to do I write about my routine. You always know you are not getting things done when you think that the first thing you need to do is get things done. I’m experience a moment of resistance. Need to publish something. Anything. Anywhere.

Had to look and look to ask why this man was so familiar. He’s from Ann Arbor! The photographer has a very nice photoset of Ann Arbor places.

We didn’t have the concept of a notary in Michigan. I need to find a Notary today to notarize the articles of incorporation for Think New Orleans. Today will be quite a little trek.

I’ve decided to return to the original idea for kiloblog, which was that is it is a stream of consciousness blog, where I wrote what I was thinking, and sorted it out later. It is a place where I can be personal.

If you were following this blog because I wrote about some programming project that piqued your interest, you can read more about it, and in more detail at Alan’s Blogometer.

You will find a lot of talk about software development in this blog. You may follow it for a while and think that it is a programmers journal. That is because I will go on a software binge, muddle my head with thoughts about software, and offload them constantly.

Then, without any warning, I’ll be writing about some deep personal failing and it’s repercussions. Don’t worry. I’ve not snapped. It was merely a context switch, one that wouldn’t seem so odd if you were not expecting another soliloquy on Java serialization.

There once was a time when I said that I couldn’t do social work. That it is not in my nature to be able to deal with people’s problems. That’s work for a different temperament than my own.

I am angry with that sentiment.

I will have to simply dismiss that world view that was shaped by a pointed isolation from social problems, to an extent that any sort of service, read to children, bring meals to the elderly, any sort of tangental intersection might reveal evidence of the pressures that people feel every day.