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About an hour or so ago I announced to the office "I'm pissed off with all this stuff working, I wish something would go wrong so I can have a problem to solve".
We had a livation (I made that word up I think) event last Thursday and everything has been cleared from my desk to deal with the fallout of which there has been almost none, and none that wasn't utterly trivial.
I like problem solving, I like having to think, I like something new.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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If you're bored I can send you a web page I've got where the CSS is picking a fight with the javascript/jquery/ajax refresh and a couple of the elements wont go where there 'sposed to be.
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I work on code at home, and try to include something that I've never done before. My current "big" task is my Media center PC software (I put that on the back burner when I developed an unnatural urge to re-do Anagrams as a WPF app). I'm back at it on the MAH project though, and am currently working on the back-end (SQL Server database with custom code instead of using bloatware DRM frameworks).
I do the manual coding because I like to, and see no reason to avoid it. After all, it's not like I'm on any real schedule, and my project manager is my wife, who isn't too terribly bothered by Media Portal right at the moment. On the other hand, I cringe whenever I use Media Portal, knowing full well it needs to be updated, but not wanting to deal with the process (and mostly because of the additional plugins I use).
In any case, I've gotten to the point where I can scan a "media source" (a drive on my network) for .iso and .mkv files, query an online movie database, and associate queried data with the selected file. I got to the point that I'm ready to save the movie info to the database, and realized I didn't have a database. I can also put additional DVDs into drives and usb thumb drives, on any of the systems on the network and watch those "on the fly" (they're not added to the database, but show up in the list of available movies under the genre "Removable Media").
All in all, I'm having a great time futzing around.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Hey, whatever piques your interest.
For me, I like building things. It's completely freakin' awesome that I can make something out of thin air. (Has that ability ever existed before in humanity's history?) Bonus if the thing I make is useful to me. Double bonus if other people find it useful.
And we live in a time in which those things I make can be put it in front of thousands of people instantly, for next to zero dollars.
Making things is fun. That's what keeps me interested.
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Judah Himango wrote: Hey, whatever piques your interest
Congratulations, Judah!
I do believe you are one of the first people I've ever seen that spelled that word correctly in an online forum. I don't know how many times I've had to throw up in my mouth a little when someone's interest was 'peaked' or 'peeked'  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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The correct programmer term is peeked.
Peek[^]
So he spelled it wrong.
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I pride myself on this sort of thing.  (It drives my wife crazy.)
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It drives my wife crazy too. It doesn't help that she has an M.A. in English, and my spelling and grammar are better than hers.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I am a programmer because I like that there's at least something that will do what I tell it to, without fail, every time.
Currently reading: "Winter's Heart", by Robert Jordan
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Brad Stiles wrote: I am a programmer because I like that there's at least something that will do what I tell it to, without fail, every time.
The bad part is when the program does what you didn't realize that you told it to do. 
Fletcher Glenn
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