Underachievement Unlocked

My life: a lot of potential and very little realization.

Very few posts on this blog, as well. But you might find some entertaining stuff if you go back a few years in the archives.

20 oct. 2007

19 oct.

I swear I've got 33% more hair on my head than a couple days ago when I felt I looked so fucking old.

 

17 oct.

My second Facebook app

I really like making those; two days of programming for a real social app, with (almost) every tedious management aspect handled by Facebook for you and access to millions of users (in theory). Unlike the previous app, this one has a real social component: you can compare your inkblot test answers with those of your friends, and post comments.

Either Facebook has server problems right now, though, or my app is making profiles crash occasionally. But that shouldn’t be possible. And I’m not doing anything special at all.

 

(Photoshopping custom inkblots — because the Rorschach Society is apparently quite lawyer-happy, and even though their copyright claims are pretty much baseless I’d like to avoid having Facebook quickly cave in and remove my application — is weiiird.)

 

P.S. Developing Facebook apps is great, except when Facebook startsserving errors for every page even though our server works perfectly fine.

 

16 oct.

Veuillez trouver ci-joint la déclaration de TVA du 3ème trimestre 2007 qu’il conviendra de dater, signer et retourner avant le 19 octobre 2007 à votre centre des impôts. Il n’y a aucun règlement à effectuer ce trimestre.

Je sortirais le champagne si ça ne voulait pas aussi dire que la société n’a eu pratiquement aucune rentrée d’argent du trimestre.

 

14 oct.

Being an under-achiever was so much more fun when I didn't have to pay the rent.

 

13 oct.

My first Facebook app

I won’t spoil you the surprise of clicking on the link above. There’s something strangely exciting about developing a Facebook app, knowing that there’s billions of people just a few electrons away from you (and that you’ll never reach them). The API is pretty well done, actually — better than I expected.

 

10 oct.

It's quite freaky really how many skills I have and how unable I am to transform any of them into money.

 

9 oct.

www.garoo.net — version 1877.0

Before:

 

After:

Hmm… I’m not so sure, actually.

 

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