work

Programming is hard work. It’s an intense mental activity. Good programmers think about their work 24/7. They write their most important code in the shower and in their dreams. Because the most important work is done away from a keyboard, software projects cannot be accelerated by spending more time in the office or adding more people to a project.

via David Veksler

Sometimes I look at my CPU Usage chart, just to see if I need to be working harder...

Today I am re-encoding video, testing a streaming application, and manipulating code concurrently. I feel good about my output at the moment.

It has been a week since I last posted, and a lot has happened. First, I spent the morning last Thursday at the HEB, helping out for a Hurricane Ike relief food drive.

I got to come home around 8 tonight, and I don't have a scheduled time to go back in tomorrow, which is good news. The rationale is that I opted for the phone call support position, meaning that I am not in the office for a set shift, so if anyone gets overwhelmed, or something breaks catastrophically, I am the go to person for that. Which is ok, they have my cell numbers, and it means that I don't have to specifically be in the office between midnight and 7, which is a time I don't necessarily work well.

So with Ike tracking in here, it looks like I will be at work all weekend. I have been working a lot recently, and its going to keep happening, but my boss is already talking about hotel rooms and 12x12 rotations so that we have full coverage. I am sure that I will have some time to blog about it though, so we will see about "wall to wall" coverage on my blog too. And maybe even some behind the scene's action from a news station.