It’s been a while, I know. As each day passed without a worthwhile post being put up here, it got harder and harder to write. My thinking is that if I could somehow blog about how I haven’t been able to to blog, it’ll get the ball rolling, and the dailies will follow.

Physical Limitations

Subtitle: “I’ve got tunnels in all up my extremities”

Yeap. My wrists are acting up again. And quite a bit, actually. I feel like exercising and working out helped to lessen the pain, but… I’ve also been having issues with my ankles for two months. Turns out that after seeing the doctor for the first time since I got my work permit, I might be onto something called Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome. We’ll see if I have both Carpal and Tarsal next week after I get some strange electrical testing done on me.

It could be that all these issues are connected to some kind of Hypothyroidism. I hope not.

Also, for about a week, my jaw wouldn’t open all the way. I’m only realizing now how much I grind my teeth as I sleep. Might be why my jaw feels a little stiff when I wake up.

And I’ve been having pain in my upper left abdominal region. This one is still up in the air. Maybe poor posture?

So to sum it up: My body is like… melting away. This leads into…

StatusFix

Ah yes. My first multi-member project that I hoped to be a part of. Health complications definitely made me a little bit hesitant to continue in this endeavor. Also, there were huge lessons I started to learn as I partook in this project.

Which will follow later.

So those that don’t know yet: I’m off StatusFix. It still feels kinda like my own project, but it’s… time for the next project?

The Next Project

If my wrists aren’t going to be stupid, I’ll be posting the details to my next awesomeness. Also, I’ve secured another client to work for. At least I’ll be secure in that for a little while.

New Toy: AppleTV: Delicious

• Overall, it’s great… when it works. I’ve had it crash and start on me twice, and it hasn’t been a week yet. Once, I had this weird green screen that made it restart on its own; the other time, I had to physically hard boot it. That was just at the beginning: now it’s getting better.
• It’s made me watch video podcasts at the beginning, because I didn’t have any video content on it at first. Like Diggnation HD, which is pretty entertaining, although not that informative (this podcast stuff is another post on its own… my goodness, is someone keeping count on how many other posts this single entry is going to spawn?)
• Over 802.11g, it’s slow. It’s slower than I could have ever imagined. Streaming music isn’t a problem. It’s the part where I want my entire music library and a few TV shows/movies on AppleTV. The first sync took me an entire night.
• Rather than hack it, I’ve just started to re-encode things into H.264. Not the best codec for quality… or maybe it’s just the fact it’s re-encoding from .avi files. Hope to figure this out.

Twitter: It’s destroying the way I blog

Seriously, it’s making it blogging too easy. I also looked at Tumblr.

Less friction to getting my content out means faster updates. It also means a HUGE decrease in signal-to-noise ratio.

A second blog

See what’s going on? These sections are becoming Twitter updates. Oy.

But yes, I’m thinking about starting up a second, much MORE focused blog. I’m just trying to figure out the logistics of keeping and maintaining two WordPress blogs. I might have to call on some source version control software to automate plugin updates and such.

BLAH BLAH BLAH

Okay. I’m blogged out for now. Come back later for something more worthwhile.

Seriously, though. Are we supposed to be afraid of the huge building destroying robot? What does the city signify, IE users? And what’s the deal with the UFO’s in the background?

Am I reading too much into it? Highly likely. But it’s much more snappier. MUCH more snappier. John Resig thinks so.

And snazzier too… one example is when Firefox asks you if it should remember your password. No longer is it a separate dialog box which would disrupt the flow between pages, but instead it’s a much more muted slidedown-style dialog row of text. I don’t know what you call it, but it’s awesome. I’m pretty sure this was done before in IE (Insistent IE ActiveX warnings and others), but it’s a welcomed changed here.

And something with the text… is it anti-aliased? It just feels more softer than usual. I guess I should consult the changelogs.

Now you can make a “List” for your friends, so you can keep groups of people handy for sending out spam… er… invitations.

Just recently they got of “is” in the status messages.

Good to see finally that they’re adding features that users have been wanting for quite a while… maybe Facebook is trying to make up for the Beacon fiasco.

EDIT: Friend removal has become much easier with the little “x” in the Friends page. Interesting.