the corner office

Sheesh, am I losing interest in blogging or just too easily distracted? Well, I've just finished The Dragon Reborn, book 3 of the Wheel of Time. Another 5 on the bookshelf to get through, and if I'm not mistaken, another one or two that Ronwen hasn't bought yet. Still enjoying the series, even if things do drag on a little.

The other thing that's been keeping me busy has been working on a Java version of this blog. I started it ages ago, as a bit of a a Skool Me JSP thing, and a way to put theory to practice and blahdy blah. I've only really pottered around with bits and pieces, and that often boiled down to trying and retrying different things as they took my fancy, without getting any close to finishing it. I finally decided it was time to either shelve the damned thing or get it done. I'm rather keen to get a virtual server somewhere so that I can migrate my email away from my current ADSL ISP, and generally have some root-accessible space to play around with. It doesn't make sense to have that, and my blog's current DDN hosting, least of all since I've been meaning to redesign my blog anyway, and it just doesn't make sense to keep it as a Notes app when I'm using Notes for nothing other than posting to this blog - and schlepping with Wine just to do that, as it is.

I thought about using an off-the-shelf blog app, Java-based or otherwise, but I really do like the idea of having a home-rolled blog. So I decided to get stuck in and finish it off. It'll be a while yet, even if I don't lose interest, but I'm forcing myself to complete one feature or make a useful chunk of progress each time I work on it. So far so good.