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my tendencies

September 26, 2005 at 8:53 am | In Uncategorized, technology, meaning in life, personal work, note to self |

I tend to get caught up in whatever I’m involved in at the moment. I find balance quite difficult.

I had some web stuff open in tabs of my browser ready for blogging, when I got the chance. And then firefox came out with a new version and I upgraded and lost those tabs in the process. Easy come, easy go, I suppose.

My current endeavor is learning the Ruby programming language. Before August, I hadn’t written a computer program in over 12 years. Yet here I am, learning a language. And I’m having a good time with it.

I’m planning to get myself a timer of some kind, to remind me to look up at least, and preferably walk around for 5 minutes every half hour. I think a kitchen timer is too loud. Any suggestions?

In case anyone’s interested, the Ruby project I’m working on at the moment is to convert restructured text marked up word to html. And back. Restructured text is used as a way to allow people editing text to “mark up” their words with bold and italics and whatever else, without having to learn html. That’s great until you try to port that text to another system that uses a different method to mark up it’s text. The larger project my programs will fit into will use html inbetween any two markups so we can copy and move text back and forth.

I’m learning a lot! About Ruby and about myself. Good stuff.