April 11, 2003
Time is slipping away
... so what have I done today?
* brought my little not-very-but-persistently-ill baby-daughter to the hospital for a session of thorax X-rays
* went to the drugstore afterwards for medication and aerosol machinerie
* dropped a letter at the postoffice with a reimbursement claim for one specific expensive medication (Belgium has an amazingly inexpensive public healthcare system, still you need to fill in some paperwork sometimes)
* drove to the office, discussed with Bruno whether the Cocoon form framework he's working on should return plain strings or seriously-typed objects into the environment after validation (the latter)
* had a hamburger meal with a particular nice and long-lasting customer discussing some interesting nice new project (CMS)
* returned to the office and sifted through emails and blogs (infoglut! infoglut!)
* endeavoured into some long-postponed Forrest hacking (making the search widget configurable for intranet applications)
* got sidetracked by Leo who was happy with Forrest building nicely with Gump
* got sidetracked even more with Sam explaining we were cheating
* ... trying to be a friend of Gump, I tried to correct the Forrest Gump configuration
* finally learned how Gump's descriptors work, with Stefan helping along
* messed around with cocoondev's Gump install and unearthed some permission problems
* did some more blog reading
* laughed our asses off with the particular nasty but sincere "customer reviews":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0971661901/ref=cm_rev_all_1/103-7863522-9227803?v=glance&s=books&vi=customer-reviews of some very bad Struts book we acquired two (!) copies of more than a year ago
* ... and now, I'm departing for a meeting of a group of friends supporting some great people who have been living abroad for many years, helping poor farmers in El Salvador - they've come home after 6 years and it will be the first time I'll be meeting them
* later this evening, drive home and hopefully find my family fast asleep
While it was a packed day, already it seems like on of these days drowned in nothingness. Do have a nice weekend, I'll try and do, too.
Things I haven't done:
* making the Forrest search box configurable
* do a long-postponed update of the Forrest DTDs
* find time to chat with my beloved wife