I was just thinking the other day... There's no way I've had that many people download my stuff. It's just not possible.

Then I checked out my statistics pages and I realized that the Googlebot was probably the culprit because I didn't make a robots.txt. So I went ahead and fixed that. I may someday go through my logs and see how many people actually downloaded stuff.

Probably not though.

In other news, I FINALLY convinced someone to get me a copy of Flash. I'm gonna be learning that and possibly making games for it.

Lately, I've been suffering from a serious case of indecisiveness when it comes to the software I use and I've been wondering if other people go through this as well.

I have 18 color schemes for Vim that I like. Or did like. I will work fine with one for a while and then I just have to change it. I wrote a Python script to upload my vimrc because I change fonts and colors so frequently and I wanted to keep my home comp up-to-date.

At least I don't change editors anymore. Although the thought had crossed my mind recently because I've been using Visual Web Developer and switching between that and Vim gets me confused. But it used to be Vim, to jed, to emacs, to vim/cream, to jEdit, to Programmer's notepad, to notepad++, to vim, etc. I don't remember the exact order, but it was something ridiculous. I heart Vim too much to let go now.

I look at least once every other week for a new Opera theme. At one point last year, I was downloading a ton of themes for Windows XP and just ended up going with the classic look again. I don't have as much optimism in the FireFox and Thunderbird themes, so I don't check those nearly as often.

Is this part of a deeper psychological problem, or do other people go through this?

One of the things I hate most about GUI toolkits is the layout system. They are so clunky and I always feel like I don't get to have my window laid out how I want. This is true with java (all of my school projects were absolute positioned), wxWidgets, gtk+ (i imagine -- i never got it to work), xul, etc.

Qt has changed my opinion. It's so simple to work with layouts. Even more simple (and in fact, quite amazing) is using layouts with QtDesigner. Every time I have a form, I click a layout button and magically it's exactly how I want. Well, not always exactly, but I know how to get it exactly how I want and it usually does not take long to get it so.

It's unfortunate that Qt is GPL, and from my understanding that means anything I write using Qt must also be GPL. But, I don't understand exactly how the PC-BSD folks managed to keep their stuff BSD-licensed. Any ideas?

I digress. The important thing is that I'm a very stubborn and picky developer and to find a piece of software that I find makes things easier and actually works how I want it to and expect it to -- well it's almost unheard of. Try Qt and QtDesigner.

So my life decided to go from boring to monkey-fuck insane about 2 weeks ago. Things seem to be returning to normal now, but where I'm going to live is kind of up in the air at the moment.

Where I currently live is making me die. Seriously. I've had 3 upper respiratory infections in less than a year. It's not that dirty of a house, but the shower is very poorly ventilated and that just builds up the mold and mildew. The washing machine also seems to be mildewy.

I hadn't originally planned to stay with my group of friends and roommates for another year, but thanks to life getting wild, I'm gonna have to. The thing that sucks is that no one wants to stay in the house we're in. We're trying to get a new place, signed in to a lease, and completely moved in there before June 1st. We don't really know if that will happen for sure and if we don't find out soon enough, our current landlord might not be interested in renewing with us.

So until that gets straightened out. I'm not going to do much with this site. It's very nerve racking, I must say. Hopefully, it'll all work out.

At work, I've decided to switch back to Vim again and this time give it a try using the traditional stuff... hjkl and all that. I've been spending time fooling around with pyglet and wishing I had done KillJoe2 in that.

Anyway, I got home and was doing some HTML stuff in jEdit. I was changing form field names and I was just thinking, "Man, I could do this so much quicker in vim."

!!

I, who used to be so disappointed in vim, am now getting used to it. In fact, I just tried using hjkl to move around while typing this. :P