Done yesterday (20100430 Fr)

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A pretty good day. Productive both at work and at home, and I took a good walk, put in vacation and travel requests, and bought coffee.

And, in spite of my feelings about software patents, an issuance bonus will be nice. I found out about 7703002 in the usual way, by getting mail from a company that wants to sell me a plaque. Where would I put it?

Still, by evening I was feeling rather down, which is getting to be the usual thing lately. I feel as though I'm drifting. Losing ground on disthymia, self-care, diet, exercise, phone calls to friends, etc. The financial situation doesn't help -- it's one more thing for me to beat myself up about.

Enough of that. I got a lot done; the eve of Beltane is, I think, conducive to a little reflection, though not as much so as Samhain.

The usual collection of links, including Steve Jobs' Thoughts on Flash. The main reason he doesn't like it is that it's cross-platform, and he doesn't want cross-platform apps -- he wants developers as well as customers to be locked-in. To which I say, PTHPTT.

And here's a (highly NSFW) freebie -- Jonathan Coulton's The First of May.