Homage to Icarus

[I’ll prob­a­bly end up deliv­er­ing this onstage either tomor­row or next week.]
It’s 9:28 PM
Commuter train of the damned
Slaving away for machines
Which do our think­ing for us
Which is what this is all about…
Evolution…
It’s 9:32 PM
Commuter train of the damned
Soon to be board­ing
A motly crew of the dam­aged
Is crowd­ing me in the wait­ing room
What if I stay perfectly […]

I come into the office early this morn­ing, in the hopes of get­ting a head start on the back­log I’ve got:

Finish refac­tor of My First PHP Project to take advan­tage of what I’ve learned since I wrote it, be doc­u­mented, and gen­er­ally just stop suck­ing.
Add needed fea­tures, like an XML-RPC inter­face.
Switch to sub­ver­sion for MFPP.
Put sub­ver­sion on […]

…or:
     That’s some nice quote­whorin’, Lou.
Watching non-programmers try­ing to run soft­ware com­pa­nies is like watch­ing some­one who doesn’t know how to surf try­ing to surf.
“It’s ok! I have great advi­sors stand­ing on the shore telling me what to do!” they say, and then fall off the board, again and again.Joel on Software, My First BillG Review