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Phone = Frustration
Jul. 29th, 2002 09:10 pmI really don't mind working at the store unless my cell phone rings and a client says there's a job afoot. Then I can't wait to get out of the shop and back home to handle the new job, and that impatience is manifested by a short temper with anything that keeps me in the store.
Unfortunately, by the time I was able to break away today, the job had evaporated (i.e., assigned to someone else, I suppose). I tried to nap, but was only able to rest for about a half hour. As someone had taken advantage of my "Buy It Now" deal on eBay last night and had sent payment for the item, I hied myself back to the store to ship the box with today's UPS. I almost made back what I spent on the whole "county auction" on Saturday.
At the other end of the spectrum, none of the other four offerings have yet garnered a single bid. While that's not really unusual at this point in the proceeding (one day down, six more to go), I'm finding items similar to mine selling for more than my requested initial bid, so I am hopeful. Personally, I tend not to bid on items unless they have mere hours to go before the auction is done.
* * * Otherwise, I'm fighting an attitude of lethargy toward the world and my place in it. Every day seems to bring another news item that further details the full-court press on the part of politicos (and the interests who pay them) to put the information genie in the bottle.
One recent effort intends to achieve by regulation what is taking way too long via legislation (the Broadcast Flag). Another seeks to exempt copyright holders from doing what is otherwise illegal (e.g., carry out denial of service attacks), although I understand that the measure is in trouble as the language of the bill doesn't make it clear that such recourse should only be available to the certain copyright holders (such as the MPAA, et alia).
Finally, word comes that there's a bill out there, with strong support, ostensibly intended to deal with counterfeiting of intellectual property, but which would effectively limit the use of consumer electronics (including computers) to whatever The Powers That Be decide is appropriate (i.e., their MP3s and not yours).
And the Hollings bill is, of course, still alive.
* * * In other news, both terracotta and PHProjekt keep on looking better every day. If there was some way to incorporate a daily journal (à la Franklin) and a way to synch the information with a Palm, it'd be even more useful. There has been some discussion on the PHProjekt site regarding the Palm synch, but the information is pretty sparse.
The posts on the site did mention something called 'coldsync' (if memory serves), and I actually got the tarball and compiled myself a copy, but the rest of the path - between the resulting Palm files and the PHProjekt MySQL database - is not well illuminated at all.
The good news in this regard is that I am slowly losing my aversion to using MySQL (my early efforts were quite painful, as the reference I was using was, um, poor). I think I may try to cobble together an application that will allow us to maintain our customer/boxholder database in a more effective manner).
So many things to do... how can I be lethargic?
Cheers...
Unfortunately, by the time I was able to break away today, the job had evaporated (i.e., assigned to someone else, I suppose). I tried to nap, but was only able to rest for about a half hour. As someone had taken advantage of my "Buy It Now" deal on eBay last night and had sent payment for the item, I hied myself back to the store to ship the box with today's UPS. I almost made back what I spent on the whole "county auction" on Saturday.
At the other end of the spectrum, none of the other four offerings have yet garnered a single bid. While that's not really unusual at this point in the proceeding (one day down, six more to go), I'm finding items similar to mine selling for more than my requested initial bid, so I am hopeful. Personally, I tend not to bid on items unless they have mere hours to go before the auction is done.
One recent effort intends to achieve by regulation what is taking way too long via legislation (the Broadcast Flag). Another seeks to exempt copyright holders from doing what is otherwise illegal (e.g., carry out denial of service attacks), although I understand that the measure is in trouble as the language of the bill doesn't make it clear that such recourse should only be available to the certain copyright holders (such as the MPAA, et alia).
Finally, word comes that there's a bill out there, with strong support, ostensibly intended to deal with counterfeiting of intellectual property, but which would effectively limit the use of consumer electronics (including computers) to whatever The Powers That Be decide is appropriate (i.e., their MP3s and not yours).
And the Hollings bill is, of course, still alive.
The posts on the site did mention something called 'coldsync' (if memory serves), and I actually got the tarball and compiled myself a copy, but the rest of the path - between the resulting Palm files and the PHProjekt MySQL database - is not well illuminated at all.
The good news in this regard is that I am slowly losing my aversion to using MySQL (my early efforts were quite painful, as the reference I was using was, um, poor). I think I may try to cobble together an application that will allow us to maintain our customer/boxholder database in a more effective manner).
So many things to do... how can I be lethargic?
Cheers...
