It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

"You hear that Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability."

 

So it's finally time to go back to full-time paid work, which will mean even less Copious Free Time than recently. Having decided against a move to Zurich, I'll shortly be heading back to the nice place where I've worked for a large fraction of my career.

As before, a checkpoint (827 days).

• Started a company with a colleague, building and selling a time-tracking software product.
• Wrote a book on High-Quality Software Engineering (around 42,000 words).
• Wrote around 92,000 words of another book project, which is on hold for the time being.
• Wrote around 57,000 words in this blog thingy.
• Had a couple of months paid work producing a Linux kernel module.
• Put together two prototype web applications, using the Django framework (in Python, mostly on Mac OS X).
• Various smaller personal coding projects:
  • A 3D stick figure animation applet (in Java 1.0)
  • A command-line sudoku solver (in C++).
  • An applet to test attentional blink.
  • A PalmOS version of MineSweeper.
  • A test program to investigate anomalous exits in Windows.
  • Resurrected some old nonlinear time series analysis code.
  • Played briefly with some Cocoa coding.
• Read 120 fiction and 74 nonfiction books.
• Took 1660 photographs.
• Holidays in Thailand (& Cambodia), Iceland, and a short break in Paris.
• OCD indulgence: scanned all my old film negatives (5200 of them), scanned all of the ISBNs from my books (1860), and migrated all my source code and projects from RCS to CVS.
• Sproglet.