This page isn't off to a great start in 2003. Neither am I for that matter, although I don't know what I have to complain about. I was melancholy in the days leading up to new year's eve, and despite that night actually turning out to be quite fun, I seem to have picked up where I left off once the party landed.

I need some sort of change. Not sure yet what this will entail. Luckily my life is such that making a change isn't precluded by too much. It's just making a choice that is difficult. Or assembling the choices. Or something.

One problem is that I spent an entire evening reading the development mailing list at the OSAF. This should probably get a whole post of it's own. But a quick statement of the result for me is that I should probably wait until Chandler ships (and I learn Python) before I move my personal software projects forward. If it turns out like I suspect there won't be any point in developing weblogging (knowledge management, personal info management, p2p information sharing, groupware, collaborative ware, etc...) applications that aren't built on Chandler.

So I think I'd like to turn my attention somewhere else for a few months and wait for that situation to shake out. I'm picking my head up a bit, and looking around, and hoping for some synchronistic collision with something other. I'd be interested if this didn't involve the web at all, but who knows? Probably I'll keep up some sort of lame infrequent stream of haphazzard posts here. This way, at least, you can be as confused about me as I am.

[update: I had the development mailing list link wrong. Fixed now.]
- jim 1-05-2003 8:46 pm

when are you going to turn one of those whacked out dreams into a sci-fi film treatment? and theres always the hunt for quality (oxymoron) reality tv programming.
- dave 1-05-2003 9:49 pm


let's meet & talk!
- big jimmy 1-05-2003 10:21 pm


i like the sci-fi idea, i wish i was as smart as you!!!
- Skinny 1-06-2003 1:16 am


i know how you feel about being confused about yourself. at least you seem to have the most important thing figured out! why does chandler depress you?
- pamela 1-06-2003 10:39 pm


I'm excited about Chandler (while understanding what it might suggest to be excited about a software program.) And really it's too early to say anything definite about what Chandler will be exactly. Maybe it'll just be an email client.

But I think it's going to be something much more (the way I thought Mozilla was going to be the one platform to save us all - so I've been wrong before.) And while this is exactly what I want, it's just a little depressing in the sense that I was having fun thinking about building what I want in a completely wide open context, and now it's clear that I am going to have to think about building it inside the context of Chandler.

But again, really, I'm excited about their project. I only wish they had something ready now!
- jim 1-06-2003 11:11 pm


you could still do your creative scripting stuff in it, right? and you wouldn't have to use it? what will people do who don't buy it? i don't think there's anything the matter with getting excited over software!
- pamela 1-07-2003 12:40 am


i don't know much about chandler but i like their postioning -- going after small/home users -- not the enterprise. classic "Innovator's Dilemma" strategy -- attack a market from below...
- big jimmy 1-07-2003 11:17 pm





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