Free time
The term “free time” seems innocuous, but it is really a very complex idea if you think about it for a while. Actually, I do not believe there is such a thing as “free time” and the term is frequently misused. The belief that there is such a thing as free time likely induces people to make bad decisions regarding the use of such time. All time is bought and paid for in some way or another so it makes sense to maximize the investment whenever possible.
Having said that, I think that sometime next week I will be having some time free up (a better, more accurate turn of phrase, I think) and will consequently be getting back into the steady blogging routine. Of course that means I will once again be out of work until the next “great opportunity” comes along. Ah, the bane of contract work.
There is still about six weeks until wildlife photography will begin to preoccupy my time and I think during that lull I will be dumping the Blogsphere platform that I have been using to publish this blog. I am tired of all the little peeves that make it a sub-par product.
I know it’s an OpenSource product and the rejoinder to my gripe is usually that one should fix what they don’t like and not complain about “free software”, another relative term, for sure.
The problem with that approach is that every time the OpenNTF people have a new release, all my little changes have to be managed so that the new changes don’t override my modifications, or that the preservation of my modifications don’t render the entire product unusable. Managing two code bases for one application is very doable but is not a project on which I want to continue to spend my free time.