Over Christmas break I built a robot arm kit. It was the most complicated electro-mechanical kit I ever built. And most amazing of all, it worked when I got it all together.

I also played around with the jMusic Java music library. I want to write a music composition tool in Java. It appears that much of the work has been done for me by the jMusic team.

After I got back to work January 5th, I started a weblog called Profiles in Persistence. So far, I have managed to post every day there. I plan to post more often on LJ too.

I also started preproduction on an independent film/video project. It kind of developed out of a sequence of incidents. First, a friend agreed to be costumer if I made a period film. Then, I was browsing the web looking up various topics relating to Appalachian folklore. Next, an artist friend agreed to be art director for the project. Since then, I have worked on a draft treatment for the movie.

I have also started reading a list of about a dozen blogs every day. I may have to cut back on the number that I read every day in order to get my job done at work. I'll try to post here at least weekly.