meandering

I posted on my running blog with the same title, so I thought I'd do it here also since it seems applicable. I picked up my program again and decided to work on importing my data from SportTracks. I thought it would be simple since the format is XML. It turns out the track data and heart rate data are in elements that contain blobs of base64 text. I asked on the SportTracks forum and was just told the schema was "changing." OK. I figured out the current format, but what if it changes?

SportTracks has a plugin architecture, so I thought maybe I'd look into that. It's in .NET and I like python, so I got sidetracked looking at IronPython and looking for books on .NET. What am I doing? Meandering.

For some reason, I got to looking at enthought tools again, specifically envisage. This got me to look at Eclipse, which is a java framework Envisage is based on. More meandering.

Then of course, I got back to wondering if a web app wasn't the best way to go, which brought me to revisiting the pylons, turbogears, or django question. In the midst of that, I discovered google app engine, which includes django templates. What was I doing again? Oh right, meandering.