A different sort of busy.

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After almost ten years I suppose that it goes without saying that I've become attached to the Boidem. It's a monthly endeavor that I enjoy, even when I find myself swamped with other tasks, with only very late night hours available to me for writing. But finishing a Boidem column delivers a different sort of satisfaction than, let's say, aesthetically squeezing some necessary buttons into a narrow space, than getting a roll-over image to appear correctly, than having a pop-up window (used incredibly sparingly) appear in precisely the right place, than having a menu item change its color when selected, or than successfully getting rid of a few pixels of wayward white space on a page.

Sometimes these are simple tasks that are easily attended to, while at other times they look easy but succeed in confounding me for hours. Either way, they're the sort of challenges that working with a computer often offers - checking whether we've succeeded or not is only a click away, and if we haven't, it's easy to revert back to what we had before those unsuccessful changes.

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