Scattered and Sundered

So I’ve been very busy lately, and mostly because of work. That’s a veryhref=“http://www.google.com/ig”>personalized home­page, I keep a few inter­est­ing sites’ feeds there. Makes for a nice break from the dirty innards of Microsoft Office.

So I have man­aged to stay abreast of a few projects that have kept my inter­est. As usual, they revolve around Python and/or <a depress­ing feel­ing. Spend­ing all day work­ing up my sup­port skills before I get on the phones, my evenings – much shorter now because of the com­mute – are usu­ally spent relax­ing. I’ve not spent much time with code lately (the last thing I want to do is read more doc­u­men­ta­tion) but I can’t think of any­thing pro­duc­tive I have been doing.… There’s the real kicker.

Since I’m using Win­dows at work, there’s only one way to stay con­nected to the open-source world when I’m tak­ing a break: news­feeds. With Google’s new GTK+. I really do think that the com­bi­na­tion thereof makes for good, acces­si­ble devel­op­ment that is a great boon to the open-source desk­top. There are a few that I’m think­ing about con­tribut­ing to:

• Straw — a news aggre­ga­tor (in other words, an RSS reader)
• myBud­get — a desk­top bud­get program
• And deep down, I have a desire to cre­ate a PyGTK web browser using, not Gecko, but GTK+ Web­core. Prob­lem is, it’s not ported to Python, so it’d take much learn­ing on my part to fig­ure out how to do that.

Yet I feel so scat­tered lately. I haven’t even taken the time to solid­ify the big changes I’ve made to Pygmy enough to release them. I’m hop­ing that I’ll be able to rein in, start small, and move for­ward, even just a bit.

As ever, I’ll keep you (mar­gin­ally) posted.

Update (2÷25÷08): I see that this post got man­gled a bit, but I’m just leav­ing it.