{"id":529,"date":"2000-10-18T06:15:51","date_gmt":"2000-10-18T06:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2000\/10\/18\/many-topics-playing-catch-up\/"},"modified":"2000-10-18T06:15:51","modified_gmt":"2000-10-18T06:15:51","slug":"many-topics-playing-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2000\/10\/18\/many-topics-playing-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"many topics &#8211; playing catch up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u><b>many topics<\/b><\/u> &#8211; playing catch up&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sorry for the delays, but I have been working like a dog and trying to get<br \/>\n    my financial house in order. A few items of import from the last few days<br \/>\n    are worth mentioning here.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know if folks usually just skim the top blog on my pages, but if<br \/>\n    you want to see what I have been up to with my programming you want to look<br \/>\n    at the previous entry.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Even though I do not currently have the free time to write, I have been<br \/>\n    using my spare brain cycles to think about some of the essay&#8217;s I have been<br \/>\n    putting off for a while. I am not guaranteeing anything but look for two,<br \/>\n    maybe three essays covering BDSM, training and the dynamics of the Daddy &#8216;role&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>I cannot even begin to tell you how much I am enjoying the TV show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/darkangel\/\">Dark<br \/>\n    Angel<\/a>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkangeltv.com\/\">1<\/a>][<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/darkangel\/\">2<\/a>].<br \/>\n    It goes without saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkangeltv.com\/gallery.php3?gallery=heat\">Jessica<br \/>\n    Alba<\/a> is the hottest thing around right now. Hell, as sci-fi TV goes the<br \/>\n    plot isn&#8217;t even all that bad \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Financially of course it is still pretty glum, but we are surviving. With<br \/>\n    any luck at all the proposal we made to the folks Tatsumi&#8217;s working with now<br \/>\n    will be approved and we can get some sort of stable, albeit small, income.<br \/>\n    Overall the situation is not totally lost but it is pretty upsetting that<br \/>\n    the T-1&#8217;s have had to go on indefinite hold.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>If you know of an investment type, or someone who knows someone who wants<br \/>\n    to invest in high-tech, <i><b>tell us<\/b><\/i>! Our business plan is rock solid<br \/>\n    and our market opportunity is getting really juicy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Generally speaking, dotPublishing is starting to move to the new wave in<br \/>\n    web publishing &#8211; it is our intention to continue to stay on the front edge<br \/>\n    of the curve instead of the back. That means we embrace the use of Flash and<br \/>\n    will be moving all of our sites to the hottest development platform around<br \/>\n    &#8211; Microsoft&#8217;s .NET architecture on Windows2000 servers. Nothing else even<br \/>\n    comes close to giving us the options to realize our vision.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Continuing the dotPublishing trend, we will be moving to a more &quot;middle<br \/>\n    man&quot; consultancy niche. While we hope to be able to devote our time entirely<br \/>\n    to &quot;Project X&quot; in the near future, in the meantime we will continue<br \/>\n    to take on clients. However it is our intention to become much more involved<br \/>\n    in the architecture\/concept development side that the low level coding and<br \/>\n    implementation. <\/p>\n<p>    Why? Looking back on the projects we have been involved in for the last two<br \/>\n    years it is clear to us that we have provided significant value in the form<br \/>\n    of design and concept skills&#8230; we know how to take an idea and run with it<br \/>\n    until we have a devastatingly good final architecture&#8230; and we are technically<br \/>\n    savvy enough to know what will work and what wont. In fact, the value we have<br \/>\n    provided in that way has probably far exceeded the value we delivered in the<br \/>\n    form of code.<\/p>\n<p>    Let&#8217;s face it, an hours worth of code is an hours worth of code &#8211; you can<br \/>\n    find that lots of places&#8230; but an hour of consultancy that clarifies that<br \/>\n    identifies a major new feature or market opportunity has a much farther reaching<br \/>\n    impact on a client, and in future projects we are going to explore those skills<br \/>\n    more completely.<\/p>\n<p>    We will probably begin to also act as the middle men between the client and<br \/>\n    third party development houses to arrange for code creation. It is becoming<br \/>\n    less and less possible and practical for me to continue writing 99% of all<br \/>\n    the code we deliver myself as my time and skills are better used in other<br \/>\n    areas of dotPublishing. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li> Kimiko is doing well at the Dojo, she is working hard and it is starting<br \/>\n    to show &#8211; shemight not see it much but she is getting much stronger in her<br \/>\n    upper torso.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>I finished &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553576208\/\">The<br \/>\n    Trigger<\/a>&quot;, it was horrible. The book itself was OK, but it is too<br \/>\n    bad Arthur C. Clarke has lost his ability to maintain any perspective. He<br \/>\n    is so busy preaching against &quot;those crazy gun owners&quot; that the rest<br \/>\n    of the book becomes one dimensional and silly. I used to think he was brilliant<br \/>\n    &#8211; and I am sure when he was younger I am right&#8230; but now, it&#8217;s just sad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  Ok, that&#8217;s it! Bed time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>many topics &#8211; playing catch up&#8230; Sorry for the delays, but I have been working like a dog and trying to get my financial house in order. A few items of import from the last few days are worth mentioning here. 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