Mental Blabberings

Methinks the deadline of one of our subjects got extended... And so goes my few hours of sleep which I can be able to claim now. That's if my groupmates let me take a short breather after a nightlong PHP-hacking/tutorial session. I miss having groupmates that actually know what they're doing, and what to do.

I need to manage my time better, now that things get bigger and bigger as time goes by. Oh well.

I'm currenlty preparing myself for the night ahead -- a friendster party of sorts. I'll most probably be posting about things later, or maybe the day after, but things should change from the last party I went to. Chillin'...

It's been a while since I've been working on 3 projects simultaneously and frankly I just love it. The idea of deadlines being beaten, and things working, features added and people happy just make it such a worthwhile experience. Although it's quite taxing, I've found solace in Ronaldo, Beckham, Zidane, Roberto Carlos, Figo, Casillas, and the rest of Real Madrid. I haven't been a big fan of football, but I've been watching my share of football since we've gotten cable (AT LAST) in Calauan. Staying up in the wee hours of the morning up coding in C++, Java, and PHP (in 3 separate projects almost multitaskingly (CRAZY)) makes me so much more productive -- unless you consider that I sleep at 4 and wake up around 11 am. The excitement of watching an attempt by any football player on TV while debugging code with elusive bugs makes it so worthwhile. Then when you squash the bug, you just feel so much like a person scoring a goal against Real Madrid. Or Mancheste...

Conscious self Overall self Take Free Enneagram Personality Test Enneagram Test Results Type 1 Perfectionism |||||| 30% Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||||||| 66% Type 3 Image Awareness |||||||||||||||||||| 86% Type 4 Sensitivity |||||||||||||||| 69% Type 5 Detachment |||||| 30% Type 6 Anxiety |||||||||||||| 53% Type 7 Adventurousness |||||||||||||| 54% Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||||||||||| 77% Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||| 50% Your Conscious-Surface type is 3w4 Your Unconscious-Overall type is 3w2 Take Free Enneagram Personality Test Does this make sense? I'd like to hear what you say... :D

We just concluded the initial presentation of the Discussion Board project, and my was I shocked -- First, the project wasn't finished and nowhere near the proposed functional requirements, and Second, there were only a grand total of 2 questions asked by the instructor. It's a software engineering class which doesn't regard the Open Source development model, and still requires the documentation (ala Cathedral style) of weekly progress, and even documents for "end users" or "clients". I personally despise the need to write progress reports in human terms -- mainly I want to show that progress is being made in terms of code and functionality. I don't want to put down into writing things that I feel about my groupmates, but rather I would like to commend them just for their accomplishments. I've just submitted one progress report, and I never really liked it. My grade may be in jeopardy because of that, but anyway that's how I personally fee...

Clemens Vasters: Indigo'ed - Where do you want to go, Aiden? It's a very interesting "treatise" on why a person who wants to "have a life" should "get real" and stop advocating open source or free software. However, it is attacking the issue of propagation and not the core of free/open source software. That should be a very distict observation that anyone reading the open letter should be able to keep in mind. The letter deals with the more practical side of FOSS, and as such not a lot of arguments could be made. I myself am 20 years old, and I haven't exactly made a lot of software yet that impacts other people's lives -- but in this country we call the Philippines, the concept of bayanihan is innate (back then in the past) and the idea of getting a bargain is definitely welcome. I'm not saying that FOSS will work only in 3rd world countries like ours, but making other people's lives a little better by giving services (like ...