We have another month of development work for our current project. Already some people are looking ahead to the next project, due for release late in this year. I had a brief email exchange with my manager, indicating that I'd be willing to work on whatever he thinks would be useful. If there was a choice, however, I'd like to spend time developing some automation tools. There are a number of repetitive tasks that could be simplified. Funding for my position runs through the middle of May. There's talk that permanent positions may be opening up, but the company hasn't posted any official openings yet.

Just a few inches of snow fell overnight, barely enough for a plow. The weather forecasters are huddling around their charts and discussing the possibility of a big storm in the Northeast early next week. It's another of those complex scenarios that could bring us a major snowstorm or a garbled mess of snow, ice, rain, wind, fish, frogs, and other things falling from the sky.

Following up on yesterday's discussion regarding sources of energy for portable devices, we find that the clever folks at the Indian Institute of Technology have come up with a device that can charge a cell phone with wind power. It raises the question, of course, would the wind from a telephone conversation be sufficient to power the cell phone? It's not quite perpetual motion, but it's getting there.

Happy Birthday, Lynn.