Strewth! One of my photographs was accepted at the Pentax Photo Gallery. That's surprising because I understand that an awful lot of very good pictures are declined.
And of course, I had 5 others declined too! ;-)
Anyway, this is it: a shot from Trondheim in Norway.
It's hot here in the Philippines - about 34 degrees all told. Everyone is out on the terrace chatting while I'm slaving over a hot computer trying to write an administrative database for a new (FOSS) program. I'll be able to release full details about it soon but it will take a bit of time to get it functional. Okay, that's not the purpose of FOSS, but I'm trying to get the design and architecture right first time.
I had fun on the weekend writing an event-handler from scratch which I managed to do in just a few lines of Python. Progress is going well and I hope to get something that works released by the end of May.
Still, it's a relatively peaceful though busy time. I'm working almost constantly on this software, but I have few other real pressures. It's a pleasure to be able to work full-time on a FOSS project and do it the way I want to do it. I'm happy because this whole time reminds me why I love programming so much - the constant challenges and beating them to take more steps toward a final goal of actually having built something worthwhile.
I'm taking on a lot of roles with this work: interaction design, programmer, tester, all-round monkey etc. I like the different colours and flavours that this work brings me - and if I ever get tired, relaxation here is good, honest and easy. I'm a lucky man indeed.