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The project I'm working on has officially become crufty. Isn't that a great word? I discovered the Jargon Lexicon section of the New Hacker's Dictionary this morning, and instantly jumped all through parts of it, looking up the oddest and most obscure entries I could find in its depths. Crufty was a word I already knew though, but it was good to find out that it meant what I thought it did.

I really think that the main reason I ended up majoring in English in college, instead of in some sensible and job-friendly topic like Computer Science or something was that I just love words. While I've never read the dictionary, I do still have a problem with picking the dictionary up, looking up the word I'm interested in, and then putting the dictionary back down.

It's something about the fascination of finding just the right word. I want the word to be perfect, in both connotation and definition for what I'm trying to say, whether I'm writing, talking, or just rambling to myself in my head. Like with the program. "Overdone" wasn't what I really meant. "Overly complex especially when compared with what it was initially designed to do" was pretty close, but a little too wordy. Crufty, on the other hand, just about nails it.

Well, shit. Here it is Monday, and I really really meant to finish this little bit over the weekend. Oh, well.

I've just about finished patching the code up so it jumps through the new hoop. I'm dreading the thought of doing a code review on this, mostly because it'd take me half a day just to try to explain the various evolutions that this project has gone through. And the code reflects that all too clearly.

Jeremy came up with this really neat idea for a web-database sort of based on Everything and we mailed back and forth about it several times over the weekend. It should be really neat. Hopefully, we'll have enough time to sort of talk out what we'd like it to do and how it should do it that it'll end up a nice, clean, elegant piece of work. Hopefully. I have no idea when Jeremy's planning on telling boss-type peoples about the idea, but I sort of think he's planning on waiting until it's in a rather usable beta format, so he can present them with a fait accompli. Forgiveness is easier to acquire than permission. And it could actually be a fairly useful resource for the office. Maybe. If enough people use it. We'll see.

Well, I had about eight thousand things I wanted to write about, but I can't remember any of them. Oh, well. Hopefully that'll mean it'll be easier coming up with something for an entry later in the week!