Summertime, and the living' is easy...

Work is, for lack of a better word, easy. So I have a set of minor programming projects going on at home - stocks analysis, ai, a game, a recipe-finder, etc. I have an idea for a graphical web browser, where you can see the links pointing off to different sites in 3 dimensions and you can swoop and zoom around on the Web without *having* to load up a given HTML page. I will probably do some of that after I roll up the AI and recipe finding software.

I've really become disenchanted with the reinvention of software & windowing systems. In the last 20 years (since '92), we've had Windows & OSX for desktop windowing (Ok, and Solaris, CDT, and Genera if you want to get picky), then we went to the web. Notice that the Web lacked the appropriate elements for actual windowing use, so someone got the bright idea to invent Flash. It had various idiosyncratic & badly done windowing systems. Well, we all know what happened to Flash. Now we have HTML5. Oh, and now Mobile. Once again we rewrite our software for the new Windowing modality.

@$%@#$^ this @#$@$#% with a #@$@$% in the CONNECTION INTERRUPTED...

....RESUMING.

Yeah. I lean more to the CLI for my information management every *day*. Easier to program, easier to compute with, and often easier to manage my information retrieval. And in the long run, isn't it better to make it easy to use at a powerful level than cool and new? I think so...

Hey, if anyone wants to hack on a Common Lisp project, let me know. I have a few of my own, and would be OK with working on someone else's.