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By default, perhaps, but I am in charge of the music system for the new restaurant. Of course I bought an iPod. It just came in the mail (I ordered it Friday with 2 day shipping - pretty good.) So far it's as slick as I expected. Apple is so good at this.

So now I get a week or so with it to make a lot of playlists. And then it will live at the restaurant. If this works J. said she'll buy them for all the places. Still, I'm trying to convince her to just get iMacs so that we can put all the numbers on the web and she can work from anywhere. But this is a good first step. And if we do end up following my ultimate plan then maybe the iPod will fall back into my hands.

I'll report more this week as I play with it.
- jim 2-04-2002 4:42 pm [link] [add a comment]

I think I remember something like this happening before. I'm within striking distance of being preliminarily finished with my project. And now I've had another realization about how to greatly simplify the underpinnings. Why didn't I think of this three weeks ago? Probably because I didn't understand the problem well enough at that point. I needed to work with it in order to get to this point where I can see clearly. But now what am I supposed to do? I thought I was almost done.

In some ways this is probably a trap. Sure I can keep writing it over and over again and probably always make some improvements. But the idea is to finish. And something that works right now might well be better than something that will work better when (if) it's done. Still, this was an important insight. I'm genuinely confused.

Last night I was lying in bed thinking about this and I decided I'd dedicate today, one day, to laying the foundation for the new idea. I'll keep all the old work intact, and I won't do anything to prevent myself from just switching back to where I am right now with the present code. But I'll give the new idea one day and see how far I can get. Might be just a wasted day, but it's a Sunday so that seems alright.

Not like I'm going to watch the Super Bowl or anything.
- jim 2-03-2002 3:59 pm [link] [2 comments]

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