Back on the street...

...that's where the "big" Russian-to-English job is, RFP-wise. And as a result, I've got a bunch of people again asking me all sorts of questions regarding my participation.

Money pressures were high today (cripes, I'm beginning to sound like a horoscope!). At one point this afternoon, after I'd returned to the store to send off some items, it seemed as if the entire world wanted a piece of my time. As a result, I missed sending off my resume as promised by the close of business, East Coast time.

Stuff like that ticks me off.

* * *Spent about two hours trying to grok TWiki. There would appear to be some really simple thing (which, naturally, never finds its way into documentation) that I'm missing. Everyone and his dog's TWiki site has the same insipid reference to a "20-minute" overview that does nothing to get one off the ground. IRC is of no help in this direction, either.

There was an interesting line in an article on Building with Blogs in the March 2003 issue of Linux Journal. After giving a high-level look at blogging packages such as Moveable Type and Blogger, the author states:

If you want to put up a bare-bones blog and don't mind if it doesn't say yes to all the questions listed above, LiveJournal is a handy and popular choice. You'll be left outside the Blogging Ecosystem (as roughly defined by Phil Pearson's aggregation site by that name), but you'll be using mostly GPLed open-source software and be involved with a lively community.

I'm not going to reproduce the questions referred to in the quote; I'm sure the article will be available online soon (if not already).

And that's a sure sign that I'm tired. 'night, all.

Cheers...