Whew...

Well, school is underway, I'm settled in and things are crazy.

I thought I'd have more time for this stuff, but one class in particular is taking up a lot of time. To go off on a little bit of a tangent/rant it's a programming class and he uses an email grader to check your output. He tells you what the name of the input and output files are (so you can grab the data to manipulate), but you never get to see it. He gives you a sample input file so you know kinda what it looks like, but that tends to be a simple case. His input files (used with the email grader, that you can't see) tend to be more "worst case" type input files (IE, there's extra spaces that you have to deal with). When you email the grader all you get back as a response is A)"Your program didn't compile", B)"Your output was wrong" or C)"Your output was correct." You can't see the input file, nor can you see what your output was. So even very simple problems are almost impossible to debug, because you essentially have to do it blind. The email grader is 100% literal, so even if you have one extra space somewhere it's wrong. Fun.

Anywoot, hopefully things will slow down a bit and I can get back to business. For now, I'm trying to keep things short and simple, so I might focus on article writing or perhaps dip into social network marketing. Things I can do without having to keep a close eye on them, because I'm a bit too busy right now. I was pretty happy to find that I've made about 100 bucks a week the last few weeks, and I really haven't done anything. Bonus money :P

Also, I'm pretty excited about my senior project. I got it approved before the start of the semester. It's going to be an indexing/rank tool. Essentially, I plan to make it do some social bookmark submitting, trackback discovery/submission, and auto find high page rank places to make comments. The trackback part is a bit spammy I suppose...but the comment part won't be automated, it'll just find them for you, so you can read through it and make a real comment. The social bookmarking part I hope to be somewhat like Bookmarking Demon. Depending on how quickly things come together it will have more or less features, but those are my basic goals. Should be pretty neat.

So far it can login to a couple of social bookmarking sites. I figure that once I start to get a better handle on using C# (which I'm new to), things should come together a little quicker. The social bookmarking part will probably be the bulk of the work, so I'm hoping to get that mostly done within the next couple of months. I already have it setup to make new threads for each site, so it seems to be running pretty quick. Once it gets up and running a bit more, should be a handy tool for indexing articles, lenses, whatever.