Today Begins...

I was supposed to start doing something at 8:00 this morning, but now it's after 9:00 and I've yet to peel my buttocks off this chair. I actually have a full calendar today, but I just don't feel like doing much.

Now that you've helped me think about this, I'll go to work.

I Should Live in Canada

I was going to post a cute little thing about one of those personality quizzes I took this morning, but the code to embed it is really bad and it clashed with Blogger's editor anyway.

So I'll just tell you about it.

No I won't. It's not important. It was a waste of 30 minutes, which in turn made me waste your two minutes reading this post. And you're no better for it. Some friend I am, huh?

Wish You Were Here

Looks like Friday will be rough. I expected to see storms by yesterday, but Fay decided to take another trip to the Atlantic and get her wits about her (you know she's tired after touring Florida). Then she's coming over. It's warm out in the Atlantic and some say she could become a hurricane before she comes to Georgia. The tip of the yellow arrow is about where I live:

Another Idea Down the Drain

Well, there you have it - right there in the agreement for the iPhone developer program: You can't drive a cruise missile via an iPhone application. There goes my fancy new government contract. From the agreement itself:

Applications may not be designed or marketed for real time route guidance; automatic or autonomous control of vehicles, aircraft, or other mechanical devices; dispatch or fleet management; or emergency or life-saving purposes.

Doesn't that suck? Just what exactly are we to do with our iPhones* if we can't blow something up?


*I don't own an iPhone and plan to only if I develop something really cool that needs testing.

Learning a Lesson

I know I shouldn't hire anyone. I'm stressed to be efficient so as to reach a point at which the company is profitable, and that means I'm in it alone for a long while.

But I really have to poop.

And I'm sure there's some law that says as soon as I get back there and down to business, a customer will walk in the door. I haven't had a genuine customer just walk in yet, but if I go back there and get to it, I am sure I will meet my first.

In good spirits,

Reach for the Sky

We've had a hold-up. My day job announced that they need me tomorrow through Friday in Atlanta, and I won't be able to operate the store from there.

I have given some thought to setting up the iMac on the counter and doing a video chat with customers as they walk in, but that would be more of a pain right now. Maybe when I get more established downtown I can do a remote-consultation type of thing from afar.

We will now be opening the storefront on August 9, 2008. We'll see how that goes.