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Macworld San Francisco keynote by Jobs in a few hours. Will he announce my new laptop? (MacBook Air? WTF?) Everyone at World Headquarters is on the edge of their seats. Stay tuned...
- jim 1-15-2008 5:22 pm [link] [11 comments]

I've been working fairly steadily on client jobs, but in terms of finishing my big software project (what I've called Geneva here before,) I have been totally stuck. Since about early December. Haven't moved more than a few inches. And it's been getting me down a bit (which then adds to the stuckness, which then gets me down a bit more, which then....)

But yesterday I made some progress and then today I had a pretty big breakthrough. Or I found a shortcut, which I guess amounts to the same thing. It's not quite as elegant as the piece I couldn't implement, but I need to prioritize. I really have to fight the desire to just keep working on this thing forever (it's really fun for me to be in the middle of it.) I have to finish up, yet I've never been good at finishing up.

So I'm going to start telling myself that I will launch this thing on April 1. It's software, but it runs on my server and the product is something you use in your browser over the web. Basically, it builds websites (what else?) My target market is people who want to build websites, and know a little bit about HTML, but not all the other stuff you need to actually build a modern website.

Geneva is nothing revolutionary or world changing, but at the same time I don't know of anything exactly like it. Possibly because there is no market for such a service. But it at least has a shot of turning into something. Not sure I can really finish by April 1st, but I guess I can get something out the door by then. Polish can always come if there is any interest.

We'll see.

- jim 1-15-2008 2:13 am [link] [4 comments]

Graph of New Egg hard drive cost/GB. Updated hourly.
- jim 1-14-2008 6:26 pm [link] [add a comment]

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