I’m still alive. I took a break, and ended up with a huge number of issues with my computer. That just made me take another break to avoid solving them.

While most of the procrastination is over now, it’ll still take me a while to get back into things.  I’ve got a couple of projects which I’m forced to put on the back-burner, and a couple which I’ve never mentioned which I’ll be working on – and they may or may not be announced.

I’m not sure what stuff I’ve even got going, so for now just assume that everything’s being delayed by a huge amount.

I did get a hold of the Unity Linux gang to let them know what’s up, and I’ll hopefully be returning to light duty sometime mid-December.

Btw, I’m using TinyME-alpha3 right now, and it seems to work just fine.  My tastes differ quite a bit, so I’m really just using the underlying skeleton.. so it’s not like I’m using the actual distro.

So this isn’t much of a teaser for things to come, but at least it’s something.  =p

Yes, I actually had to look this one up. Apparently nobody thinks DVD menus and using your mouse for them) would be a sensible default.

mplayer -mouse-movements dvdnav://

And no, this doesn’t work with gmplayer. That would be crazy. =/

So at some point you migrate from little scraps of paper to sheets of paper.

Then you migrate to notes in your computer.

Then you migrate to a documentation system.

Then you migrate back to notes in your computer.

Then you migrate to one big note.

Then you categorize your notes.

Then you review and prioritize your notes.

All the while, your notes have been gathering strength, preparing to assault your free time.

You open the flood gates .. and .. nothing happens.  The very notion of a list is intimidating, and actually “doing” anything is based on inspiration.  Priorities have shifted around so much over the years that looking at the list just gives a lot of “yeah, that ought to get done one of these days” instead of the burning-hot passion there used to be.