I’ve been in mad scientist mode for a few months now and especially over the last few weeks, feeding off of every interesting thing I could find / read.

It’s the binge. You know it.

You know how it usually ends up – a million ideas, too much to do, and not enough time in the day to accomplish any of it.

It’s the binge. You know it.

One of the ideas got me out of bed and doing internet research in the wee hours of the night. It’s a good idea and it has legs.

It’s the binge. You know it.

I’ve also been looking at all sorts of things that I haven’t looked at in years – Linux distro’s (my 2000 experience was shoddy at best, so I put it on the back burner ;) ) – I am currently looking at CentOS and Ubuntu server. Thanks to some of the folks I follow on twitter (faithfulgeek, coreyhaines), I was able to get some guidance.

Why was I looking at Linux distro’s? Because I was looking at Mono.

I also spent some time reading on Google Chrome – it’s a great idea and one that is lost in all the stock browser quips you’ll find. Essentially, my point is that making a comparison of Chrome to IE is not really an apples to apples comparison and any comparison like that just dulls the effectiveness of something like Chrome. Check out the cartoon story on Chrome.

I’ve also been looking at different frameworks for development. I’ve been checking out different parts of the Castle stack as well as CSLA. Then using MoMa to see how Mono compliant they are. :)

And i installed Ruby and Rails because I was intimidated into doing it . :)

Oh, and I’ve been re-vamping my blogroll. I’ve had some unsavory experiences that have forced me to put an increased focus on quality (note to self: stay away from bloggers that use phrases such as meh, teh, and yo). I try to filter bloggers in and out pretty regularly, but recently I’ve gone on a huge purge and clean and focusing on finding high quality bloggers that talk about the things I want to read about. The good news is that I now have a more focused blogroll. The downside is I found all sorts of stuff. Turns out the internet is BIG. Who knew!!?? ;)

I’ve been reading lots of books / articles as well. Books / articles on Ubuntu, Ruby, Getting Real, Expert C# 2008 Business Object, Pro LINQ, WPF Unleashed, and a bunch more. I haven’t made much head way on any of them because, as it turns out, my kids like having me around a lot and vacation time is “Play Time with Daddy!!” time. 12 days off is nice, but not nearly enough to do all the things I was hoping to do.

It’s the binge. You know it.