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Lack of Posts… To The Extreme!

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on February 10, 2007
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Changing my daily routine to start at 5:30 is making me quite the productive man. However, I started to lose sleep over a couple days… and I ended up napping quite a few hours on Friday to catch up. This week has been a blur: Finishing up a website, starting a move away from a legacy system to an open source alternative, and commencing on customizing a content management system.

To make the most of time… to not be lazy, and to continue to build towards something… JK “to the extreme”.

Thursday night consisted of a rousing night of discussion of code with Derek, my freshman year roommate. It was a throwback to the days of that year, seeing old pictures of the creation of my shuttle xpc… yeah, we’re nerds.

Something else that struck me as interesting is how Derek also thought that I liked to take things to the extreme. Alex, a friend from Cincinnati, has told me the same thing. I bet if I asked some of the other friends I know from Cincinnati, they’d agree, also.

Eh… take it as you will, but I guess it’s time to shatter that thinking, too.

Rest of today will be spent… on a computer. What else is new?

How Apt: An entry from Coding Horror

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on January 30, 2007
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Coding Horror: How To Become a Better Programmer by Not Programming

Sidenote: Derek, this is one of the many RSS feeds I read.

If you don’t have a subscription (RSS) to Jeff Atwood’s blog, get one. I love what he has to say. His reading list is superb… too bad I’ve never fully read any of those books. I can say I’ve at least touched half of the books on the list.

One thing I have to add to what he wrote:

You won’t– you cannot– become a better programmer through sheer force of programming alone. You can only complement and enhance your existing programming skills by branching out. Learn about your users. Learn about the industry. Learn about your business. The more things you are interested in, the better your work will be.

My efforts of trying to learn this programming language or that web framework is worthless, unless I realize why I’m doing it. This is why my focus is going to change back again to just creating.

I’ve been obsessing over preparation: Preparing through learning, through researching. I guess I could have also been preparing through doing, but that wasn’t the case. If I had actually been preparing through doing, I would have quickly gone past the preparation stage into the action stage.

In the end, what I’m trying to say is that while I have all these great ideas of creating a web application, I won’t get anywhere just by sitting back and passively learning. I gotta learn to walk the talk.

I’ve told some people that programming is slowly becoming a chore: I think this should be the case with a lot of programmers in general. I know what I want the computer to do. I know the quantifiable steps required to make this Turing complete contraption do what I want it to do. But all these syntax… bureaucracy… complexes…

Eh. I just gotta suck it up. And Dew it. I mean, do it.

Goodness, I miss caffeine.

The Obligatory Daily Post

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on January 11, 2007
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Let me tell you about today… I woke up. Did work. Ate Lunch. Did some more work. Went to WIMPE. Ate Dinner.

However, my daily routine changed a bit when I got to hang out with Derek, my ISR roommate from freshman year. We just ended up talking about the new CS coursework requirements and the new things in ourlives. Then we dived into Guitar Hero 2 and some co-op play of Splinter Cell, like the nerds we are.

Now, mind you… I haven’t played an FPS since… well… I guess if you count the time I randomly sat down in front of Colin Das’s computer to play CS… about two months. But it’s something about playing a game with someone… and a game that’s as good as Splinter Cell… that brings two hardcore nerds together.

Why do I write this? I realized again that I really am who I am. I am a nerd. Period. I’m probably going to enjoy some type of real-time interactive simulation until the day I die, regardless of how the older population thinks about such “frivolous” things. I also understood… how far I’ve come in not being just a nerd. I kinda fell out of the hardcore gaming life a while back… I mean, I don’t even have a Wii right now…

Currently, my TODO file is getting larger and larger. Just today, I moved all the posts from my wordpress.com account to here. I also asked Alex to install Gallery on this server. There should be some large changing coming to this blog… soon… but I’m not going to make promises like last time and look like an idiot.

Updates will come when they come.

And dizang, I’m tired. Must… wake… up… early…

Start of A New Week

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on January 8, 2007
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Now that I’ve caught up with my daily postings… here comes the list of things to come.

Dean Knox: He will be leaving for Chicago tomorrow. I’m going to miss him… for about a week. I’m sure we’ll see each other more often… actually, I lied. He’s most likely go into a hole larger than last year, with his 18 hour course-load, as well as his job. Need to make sure to pray for him while he’s away in Boston, talking to all those Harvard peoples.

Dan Sun: Got back tonight to Champaign. He’ll be working at Moto like he did last semester for this week and for the semester to come. He’ll become my new WIMPE partner. I finally get to do some cardio… whew… And I Dan’s going to be a replacement chef for Dean, also. I’m sure Dan’s got lots of things to teach me in the art of cooking.

Grace Sue: Randomly running into her today definitely made me smile. We haven’t kept in touch for… like… two years. The one time I remember seeing her was running into her at 12:30 service 2nd semester, senior year. Hopefully, I’ll be meeting up with her before the small group schedules start up again.

Derek Remund: I will hang out with him, either on Monday or Tuesday, depending on what’s better for him. Dean occupied the last few days, but I need to have some nice times with my good ol’ freshman year roommate. I’m sure there will be much Guitar Hero-ing, as well as some “The Office” episodes… Yum.

John Kim: If this kid ever comes to town… then we’ll hang out. But other than that, I can’t promise anything.

ex-Atrium 103: My last year roommates. We’ll have dinner maybe on Thursday.

Basically, the rest of the week is the same old. I’ll work in the mornings… hopefully I’ll be able to procure a parking spot before the semester starts… The three jobs I have, plus the blog… as well as reading the Bible and other random things, as well as restarting with Japanese and Hanja. Freaking Ruby… is still on the list…

Absolutely nothing has changed… I don’t like how I can’t cross things off the list so fast anymore. It seems like most of my things to do are… going to take some time. I guess I’m realizing more and more how impatient I am in a lot of ways.

So, alas, here’s to another week. Waking up at 7 AM. I love routines… when then work out…

Maybe I should start aiming for 6, to get myself to MP… I’m going to give this a more serious thought if I do get a parking pass on campus.