Wednesday, March 12, 2003

"Is the economy picking up or is my situation unique?" I am glad to hear that somebody has more work than they can do. I would like to have that happening in the Carolinas. Maybe some time soon. Source: [Hacking Log 2.0] More pressure. I'm researching for a quote... I have another unexpected quote.. . Then an unexpected gig.. This gives me mixed emotions. I'm watching this reach the 50% level. Meaning I'm rapidly approaching the point where 50% of my income is coming from opensource-based commercial projects through SuperLink Software. However, at what point do I know when to jump off the cliff? My stress level is high. Apache distractions don't help (long story of bureaucracy, unproductive but I felt obliged...I'll try again in 6 months). At work I'm behind due (only in a minor part, mostly its strange task scheduling) to an opensource-related week out of town. So once 50% of my income is coming from OpenSource, assuming no income reductions, this means that I'm making a living off of it...and that I have 2 paid full time jobs... The problem is...is this a peak or a new plane? Its not like I do all of the work myself. I have co-horts, its just even that requires coordination and planning. It also requires marketing...and I'm not so good at that (but I'm learning). Add to this, recent events have made me the sole income earner in the household.. Pressure.... I guess lots of folks wouldn't have sympathy with the over-employed eh? And, honestly, the dilemma is much a relief over the one I had a year and a half ago or so. Is the economy picking up or is my situation unique? I'd like to know.   11:37:59 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Source: [Marc's Voice] Academics and Blogging. Blogs and academics. A heterogeneous collection of links to pages relating to blogs in academia. Many links I've never seen previously, along with a few old-time favorites of mine. [Seb's Open Research] Man, talk about coincidence.  I'm a believer now - if I wasn't before! So here I'm sitting, it's 1AM - and I'm grabbing faces of professors at Princeton for a special project and.......what do I stumble across - but this great link resource that Seb puts up.  RIGHT when I need it! Thanks Seb!   10:49:37 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Hmmmm, I think Jon may have hit it right on the head. I have tried several other aggregator's myself and I still feel the most comfortable with Radio. Source: [Jon's Radio] Chunking and scanning RSS feeds. I've been somewhat surprised to find myself preferring the Radio UserLand aggregator to the others I also use: NetNewsWire and NewsGator. Last night I realized why: it's a matter of chunking and scanning. In RU, I scan and dismiss batches of 100 items. On a typical day, when I receive a few hundred items, that's just a couple of clicks -- modulo any additional effort to save or respond to an item. In NetNewsWire and NewsGator, it's more of an item-by-item thing. There are consolidated views available, but they display headlines (or truncated previews) only. Processing a lot of feeds feels like more work. ...   10:36:10 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Source: [Jonathon Delacour] Riding easy in harness. [This long entry consists mainly of quotes from other weblogs, which I've assembled primarily for my own benefit, since they articulate what is perhaps my most central belief.] In the last couple of days I've received--courtesy of Burningbird, Trevor Bechtel, and The Happy Tutor--a quick refresher course in How Context...   10:27:42 AM    trackback []     Articulate []