Time to breathe

Well, the crazy week known as WWDC is now over, and I find myself having "free time" for the first time in a while. I'm here at work trying to decide if I should: a. Play Halo all day, b. redo the system on my work machine, or c. get enough energy to do something else.

The week was strange all around. I was expecting to be up at the conference for at least three of the days, but due to circumstances beyond my control, I was only up there for one. I still tried to make it up for some of the nightlife, so I was on Caltrain back and forth a fair amount.

WWDC always gets me reinvigorated for the coding portion of my life, and even without going to sessions I was still able to get a little bit of that this year. Seeing all the cool new stuff from my friends at CE, ES, and Panic was pretty exciting, as well as seeing Unison get two design awards (Winner for "Best User Experience" and runner up for "Best Mac OS X Product" - info and pictures here). I've got some programming classes coming up at work soon, so hopefully I will be able to get to do the geeking out that I haven't done yet this year.

I also managed to wean myself off of blogs for a good portion of the week, which is making me go back and re-evaluate my list. I think I hit a high point of about 150 feeds - I think I'll get that back down to 100 or so in the next few weeks. While it was interesting to read about all kinds of Longhorn programming ideas and other such stuff for a while, it's just not giving me a good return on my time investment. Wow, that sounded dorky. Let me try again... it's getting boring, and I feel like I'm wasting time. Thanks to Ethan for the wakeup call - "why don't you just stop?" :) To counter that though - here's a great kottke entry that I found today.

Ok, it's decided. Time to redo my work machine. Thanks for listening.