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I had an idea just now. I saw the problem when I saw a coder complaining in IRC about new programmers who make a cms blog and don’t include a time-date stamp.

The problem: New developers don’t always have the whole picture for their web app’s features.

The solution: A central repository of feature and idea characteristics.

Imagine a web database full of web app features that are used in many web sites. You look up blog for example, and find the Time-date stamp characteristic, the permalink characteristic, the categories and comments characteristics.

Having a member driven cross-referencing content system would enable this to be a valuable resource to new developers.

Well, I haven’t been researching much in the way of this program’s features. I have however, been tinkering with some other AutoHotKey hotness. Lol. I kind of think I should give up on this idea since it would be too difficult to achieve all of it’s most useful goals, and for this: Axem - AutoHotKey Scripts Manager and others like it..

There are other scripts that are coming together that do a lot of the main functionality of the GreaseGeek/Better Windows idea, but without the single AHK instance feature. That dreaded feature seems unattainable after as much research as I’ve done so far. At least without a lot more work than I am willing to contribute at this time. Plus even if it gets done, it may cause other side-effects.

I’ll probably see what other people in the LH coder’s group have to say, and see if anyone wants to take it over.

Well, in these maddening times we live in, we all have something to gripe about. I think I’m not the only one who shares in the feelings described in the title of this post. I have to say, that times were really pretty decent this summer, all the way up until about 2 weeks ago. I don’t have a clue what’s going on now.

I mean, geeze, for once i finally had a niche… work that paid me $50/hour for my technical services, and could finally get a fair amount of hours during the week. Then BAM! Hit like a ton of bricks, it dwindled down to only a couple of lonely hours a week if that. I was making plans to get Dell certified in every certification there is. Making plans to start training other techs. This has got to be a shift to something much better….. because if it’s not, then I think I’m gonna be upset that all my efforts are not getting me anywhere.

Do we all need to band together in order to make it? Do we need each other? Could it be, that without being around one another, our dreams have no real chance? That our lives aren’t enriched or our skills and senses sharpened? Maybe that’s just an illusion and grasping for some kind of solution that isn’t there, or perhaps that’s just it. Maybe the answer is this thing that we practically loathe because we like our privacy, and live on competition breathing through our lungs, and get irritated with others that we get familiar with.

I don’t know how I could have made it these last months during the past year or so without my family. I very much have felt frustrated and hurt and angry with all of them over the course of it all, but if I had abandoned them to escape to my own devices, I would probably be much much worse for it. They’ve grown sharper and more tolerable, and I’ve also grown sharper by their input and care. I’m sure we’re all better now that this has happened.

Maybe what this shows us, is that adversity is a necessary ingredient to character development, but not only enhances our own character, but those who bring the adversity as well. I suppose we could be reflecting back a bit of adversity to them when they bring it, so there they have some for themselves.

It’s often we find that by our own observation, they (people) are not and cannot be growing in any way but for the negative and worse. Take heart; first the thorny prickles grow…. then the rose bud!