Yostivanich

Today I’m in DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) for work, and I have a bunch of thoughts run­ning through my head about dif­fer­ent things, so this is a post with­out any real clear topic, but more of a ram­ble of what’s going on in my head tonight.

I need to do a post about the elec­tion and how peo­ple who want to run away from the results should seri­ously grow up. Along those same sort of lines, I want to do some research into do coun­tries become more lib­eral over time or is that some­thing that I think occurs? Per­son­ally I feel the answer is yes, as do the major­ity of peo­ple that I’ve dis­cussed this idea with. I have yet to find a good book/paper to back me up though, I could be mak­ing it up how­ever. Research is needed, any com­menters know a good resource or some facts to prove it?

I need to set aside time to do more things that I want to do such as blog­ging, read­ing my piles on piles of books, and writ­ing code for myself to scratch my itches. Sure maybe when I’m out of school or at least I go to being a part time stu­dent. 24 hours in a day, and I get­ting into the bad habit of sleep­ing for more than 5 of them, need to stop that.

I have a new project that I am start­ing with a friend or two. It has a lot of poten­tial and cur­rently is really really early. I can’t reveal yet where that is going or what is hap­pen­ing, but be look­ing for infor­ma­tion about soft­ware engi­neer­ing, project man­age­ment, etc, float­ing across here.

Along those same lines I re-read Get­ting Real by 37signals. I for­got what a great book it was with regards to soft­ware engi­neer­ing, project man­age­ment, and ship­ping soft­ware. Really good to read, both with my side project and for work where I am now hav­ing to man­age more than just myself. It reflected a lot of things in both projects and soft­ware that I want to occur in soft­ware projects that I can influ­ence. (Defi­antly should be a later blog post.)

Some other last minute blurbs. Most of the bill­board ads I saw in the car ride from Love Field to my hotel where for goverment/state pro­grams or agen­cies. I won­der why, is the adver­tis­ing slump start­ing to already hit DFW, are the bill­boards sim­ply where these groups are adver­tis­ing now. I cer­tainly don’t remem­ber quite the same per­cent­age last time I trav­elled, but I could be wrong.

One of the ad’s was for the Texas Lot­tery and had a back­ground pic­ture of 5 or so stop lights all green, with the words “Maybe it’s your luck day”. Clever as much as I don’t like adver­tis­ing for the lot­tery (tax on the poor/stupid essen­tially), it was still a good ad.

My Christ­mas list has been worked down to four things: iPhone, Mac­Book Pro, Sony Cyber­shot and Medi­aTem­ple Grid Ser­vice. Sorry cur­rent host, but you just do not work out (espe­cially the whole still run­ning on Apache 1 and PHP 4, like seriously???).

That’s kinda a purge of my brain from today, here are some pho­tos from the hotel room. Night, I have to leave the hotel at 6:30am tomorrow.