The last few weeks have been mostly a blur. I have three large projects going at work (all in Rails), along with a million little side things and loose ends. At home, a lot of time has been spent working on SimpleLog, helping Katia polish grad school essays, working on a new podcast website, and, when I can, playing Zelda. December is usually the breeziest month in the year for me, but right now everything is cramming together at the last minute.
SimpleLog development has been going for over four months and I'm really anxious to release. I've had a lot of help from all over the place and we're getting very close but, as usual, it's just not ready yet. It doesn't help that I keep adding features and tweaks. It's hard to nail down a release date when you keep changing the app. It's all for the better. The next version is going to be so significant of an improvement that I don't look forward to writing the "what's new" text because it's going to take all day.
The podcast website, which I've been talking about redesigning for months and months is getting closer to completion and I'm really anxious to get that up and done as well, since the current site is awful and really killing me. I hope to wrap it up before January 1 so that we can start 2007 with a fresh site.
And then, of course, there's the Wii and Zelda. I can't describe how great Zelda really is. It's hard to put it into words. Besides, I don't want to spoil it. Let me just say—the $250 USD price tag for the system is worth the cost just for Zelda alone. It's that much fun. There are also rumors that the next game is coming much sooner than you would expect.
I know these catch-up posts are annoying, but I wanted to give everyone an update on what's going on around here.