The Age of Distraction
Today I’m trying out Cory Doctorow’s @doctorow ‘s Writing in the Age of Distraction.
It works quite well I think - though rapidly changing (in 20 minute blocks) from one subject to the next makes me feel like I’ve just been hypnotised… you kindof go into a coding trance, and breaking out of it suddenly is quite disorientating.
Well it is for me anyway.
Anyway - the main thing I’m working on today is a database thing for showing consecutive “records”… eg: which First Division team has had the longest run of consecutive wins.
It’s not a complicated program - I’m scaling it up now so it can handle any query.
In addition to that, I’m working on a twitter application that displays your entire twitter history like a diary. It’s not as easy as it might look because twitter place obstacles in the path of getting all your data out in one hit. You need to do it in “pages”, and the put a choke on the API.
Still, there it is… in addition to all that, I’m visiting all the side-projects etc in 20 minute blocks a la “writing in the age of distraction”. You’re reading one of them now… although I still have another 10 minutes on this one.
