Raw

Last night I finally submitted the last of my four chapters for Web 2.0 the book. Although there are still the post-review rewrites to do, I'm feeling very relieved. Don't get me wrong, it was very much stuff I wanted to do. Only I mismanaged my time somewhat in the last few months by taking on too much work, making life a lot more stressful than it need be.

My bits were on HTTP, syndication (x2) and microformats, half theory & background, half code. The code side was a lot of fun - I used SPARQL in the microformats demo and Apache Abdera in an Atom publishing example (source will be online sometime soon).

So the rewrites aside, I'm down to one day-job contract (SemWeb coding on medical data) until the end of the month, and then I'm intending to take September off. Relatively speaking, naturally. Last week I joined the GRDDL working group, which should be interesting, I really like the idea of GRDDL (heh, I slipped a mention in the new book and funnily enough it also cropped up in the RSS/Atom book).

I've also got a couple of little for-fun writing projects in the pipeline, plus my huge todo list which is mostly code-related. At some point I'd better tackle the 729 emails in my Gmail account which I've flagged with a star for rereading/responding (I don't think I'll have the inbox cleared any time soon, currently contains 2207 messages). I need to have another go at getting a wireless card working in the Debian machine so it can go down to the music room. There's also a little more guitar tweaking to do, I'm waiting on parts. Also we're having a trip up to see Reto, and all being well my mother, brother & his wife will be visiting at some point. Oh yeah, and we've now got a house to renovate. Phew!?