Happy New Year! Right, well, this is lamentably yet unsurprisingly the first post of the year. And it's already hot summer. In code-related news, I'm up to the eleventh revision on my new Alex code, none of which is currently public. I think I've got the basic skeleton pretty much done. Hopefully I've planned ahead well enough that I'll be able to roll out the next phase of things. And that's now going to happen over at the new site, Whitepearl. You'll notice the source of this post's image is very empty at the moment, but hopefully there'll be something there by the date indicated. Right again. And it's all because I've been writing (!, I know), although I'm not quite on top of my own writing section here at Admirale. Oh judgment day.
The Alex code itself is just a foundation, providing useful but mundane tools for universal session management, remote authentication, database interaction, and a settings registry. Tentatively, I've called it a web framework (currently pre-alpha), but I'm not sure exactly where I'll draw the boundaries, or whether it'll support MVC architecture.
Other changes afoot include dropping out of school for a more real, more challenging, and oddly less expensive university. Also, I've been traveling a lot: halfway around the world and then halfway back the other way and then almost halfway back the first way again, and I'm not sure when I'll get home or what day it is. Forget time zones and jet lag. I suppose Paris (le tour), KauaŹ»i (kai) have been worth it. I'm luckier than I deserve.
And although I have a reasonable idea of where you are most of the year, having lived there three years myself, I still entertain myself with variations on the same great fantasy that's haunted me for years and continues to influence the formation of my passwords. I hope our roads cross again. You and I, or as a backslang French enigmatologist might call you, Ur of Countries.
