So, you have to make a schedule. This is something almost no programmer wants to do. In my experience, the vast majority just try to get away with not making a schedule at all. Of the few that make a schedule, most are only doing it because their boss made them do it, halfheartedly, and nobody actually believes the schedule except for upper management, which simultaneously believes that “no software project is ever on time” and in the existence of UFOs. Read today’s article Painless Software Schedules and be enlightened.

Arg! BellAtlantic DSL is doing that annoying thing where you only get about 500 bytes through per hour. Good thing I have dial up backup.

Good news! You can still burn flags! Yay!