Yeah, I pre-ordered the new 17" MacBook Pro from Amazon about two hours after it was announced. Who knows what the final price there will be, or when they'll have it in stock. I can always cancel it if I chicken out. I figure by the time it ships, I'll have my tax refund, which I already estimated will cover most or all of it. I'm tired of thinking about it, so I'll just do it.
I think I finally had a breakthrough tonight on the lack of clarity I had in developing a plug-in system to my forum app. The last two nights I sat thinking about it all tired and not clear, and I'm glad that I just let go. Tonight I think I came up with something more clear, following common design patterns and as little Web changing (i.e., mostly library code) as possible. The simple and obvious test will be to see if I can make the CB news forum work in this context.
Speaking of work, today I got nothing done at the office, with constant interruptions. Things seem frantic a lot there, and I'm trying to get my head around how to change that. So far I feel like I'm doing a good job getting better processes implemented, but I need to figure out how to change expectations so that people aren't willing to simply drop in on each other and ask for things. That practice is especially disruptive for programmers. And as for me, I'm trying to lay some foundation with a code library, which is likely one of the few things I'll code myself in the long run.
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