{"id":2768,"date":"2011-03-14T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T08:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2011-03-13T22:01:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T06:01:43","slug":"time-to-reflect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2768","title":{"rendered":"Time to Reflect"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m bored. Of course, there’s really no such thing as being bored: Being bored is a choice. You choose to do something with your time and when you chose to do nothing, or piddle around, then you become bored due to your own actions.
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\nNow some may argue that it’s easy to be bored when you’re not simply doing nothing. For example, you may work at a sucky job and be bored. But you’re not really bored: That’s just tedium. Don’t confuse tedium with boredom, because only you can bring boredom upon yourself.<\/p>\n

So I’m not really bored, I’m just forced to shift into low gear for a while because I’ve suddenly found myself between projects.<\/p>\n

Like, I mean: A lot of time between projects.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve come off a very busy year. I did six books last year, which is the most I’ve done in a year for quite some time. I’m pleased, because I enjoy being busy with new books.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, however, my reliance upon new technology has hit a dull spot. I’m basically waiting for the raft of 4G LTE phones to be released.<\/p>\n

4G LTE is really a misnomer. There is the 4G system, which is supposedly so much faster than 3G that you can do real-time video chat and other super-fast things. LTE stands for Long Term Evolution<\/em>. From what I gather, it’s really not 4G but actually a sooped-up version of 3G. So the whole thing is confusing \u2014 which is probably why I’m writing books about it.<\/p>\n

While I’m dillying and dallying waiting for the 4G phones, I’ve returned to two of my favorite pastimes: Writing fiction and programming.<\/p>\n

Writing fiction is fun, and I enjoy it.<\/p>\n

I hope someday to publish fiction. That possibility looks more and more likely now that the self-publishing model on eBooks, specifically the Kindle, is becoming more and more popular.<\/p>\n

The prospects look bleak for self-publishing computer stuff on the Kindle, however. Until Amazon properly translates references to the eBook format, I’m not going to try. Besides, I like real<\/em> computer books (references) because I can dog-ear the pages and write in the margins. I do a lot of that.<\/p>\n

Programming. I love programming too, and I get more addicted to it than anything else. If I want to kill a few hours, I simply set my mind to some programming puzzle.<\/p>\n

The other day I updated an old game I wrote. It’s the robots game<\/a>, which was an original command line (text) game for Unix. I wrote my own version several years ago. So, being bored, I whipped out the source code and added routines to keep track of my high scores. It took me about 4 hours to do, but it was a worthy puzzle and I enjoyed the process.<\/p>\n

Presently I’m teaching myself Java.<\/p>\n

Java is a programming language used on the Web, but also on mobile devices.<\/p>\n

I have a copy of Java in Nutshell<\/em>. I bought it back in 1996. Obviously, it’s woefully out-of-date, as some of the code in the book doesn’t compile. So I ordered the newest version from Amazon. It will be nice to finally learn Java after 15 years. Expect to see some Java games on Wambooli in a few weeks as I hone my skills.<\/p>\n

Well, that is, unless some 4G LTE phones get released in the next few days. If so, I’m back to being \u00fcber busy writing books. Of all the stuff I do, I enjoy that the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m bored. Of course, there’s really no such thing as being bored: Being bored is a choice. You choose to do something with your time and when you chose to do nothing, or piddle around, then you become bored due to your own actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}