On what might be

I frequently find that my inspiration far outweighs my stamina when it comes to improvement and optimization. At heart, I love the thrill of a challenge: but for me, anything suboptimal represents just one more opportunity to excel, to go faster, to reach farther..unfortunately, this is most frequently a source of frustration. For every idea that I have, the seed represents the easy part of any sort of actualization. Next would come a great deal of work to demonstrate [what we call a proof of concept in software] that the idea has merit. If, at that point, anybody were to be interested, then it might move beyond the stages of errant design in my head into something that a team might work on for a substantial period of time, and only at the end would my optimization be realized, having required enormous effort from many. And that represents the intrinsic problem of modern software: it's so dang hard to realize an idea to the public!

I have only ever moved into proof of concept stage once, with a product named Nebula. Currently, I've fallen flat on my face, as it were, in the search for the next step. Unfortunately, the work was divided, and my partner is pursuing other work at the moment. Ordinarily, I would shrug it off, and take up his burdain, and program all the way home myself. However, his work represents the server, implemented in C++ [another language that I am only barely familiar with]...and therefore there is little I can do. So perhaps I shall continue to work elsewhere, and perhaps I shall come back, demo, and actually make it take me somewhere. Difficult to say what the future holds.

In keeping with my motto of brief, but meaningful, posts I shall leave today at that. I will, however, mention that the experience of waiting for the new HTC Incredible phone to ship from the Verizon warehouse [I bought one a week ago, and it was promised to ship by 7/28...!?] is not enviable. I wish it would arrive! However, my consolation prizes come in the form of the accessory cache I am building up...today I received a little device that fills my heart with warmth, or at least power. AA batteries into cell phone/iTouch/camera juice! Yummy.