Memoirs of an English Major

    If life were a John Hughes film… screw it. I’d still be single

   It’s Thursday and usual this would end the week of posting, but I’m leaning towards having a post up tomorrow as well. If anything, it will be a work of fiction ready and waiting for your consumption. But my mind is currently split between writing and coding. It’s a common practice that I have become used it, but it is a bit hard to switch mind sets in one sitting. If you’re curious as to what I am working it, it is an Adobe AIR app using Flex as the engine. It will be open source and it will be something that writers should be able to use. Hopefully by the end of the month, I’ll have it in an alpha state to actually use, though the code won’t go up till later this month. In any case, I know this is short, but I must get back to coding. So, for those of your craving entertainment, click on the more tag and enjoy the video below.

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Ever since Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote earlier this week, I’ve been extremely excited. Even though I still have yet to purchase my first Apple computer, I am a huge supporter of the company and its principles. I know some out there really don’t see why I support the company, considering that I’m well aware I could not only build a faster computer at a cheaper cost. Well, to be honest, it’s not the hardware that’s attractive, but simply a lot of the programs that are made for the mac side, such as Scrivener and Textmate. Sometimes though, I do wish those Objective-C coders would migrate their cocoa applications over to the Windows side, just so I could try them out.

     But tonight’s post is not about WWDC. The event itself is covered in numerous places, so if you want more information on that, please refer to those articles. Nope, tonight is one other thought that entered my head during my travels, captured in my new orange book. It is another stray thought, though it is once again that of a character. It is a fairly fleshed out character and is already part of a story. As to where this will be worked into, I am not quite sure. Probably somewhere important. Anyway, enjoy.

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“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me” - Steve Jobs
I’m a little torn on Apple today. On the whole, I’m a huge Apple supporter and for the most part, O believe they are doing a stellar job. But every so often, Job’s and company makes a fatal misstep with PR and does something I don’t like. Such is the case with the shut down of Think Secret.

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