Why is it that everything I want to do somehow leads to two more things to do? Why do I have to build things from scratch? Is it because I feel the need to be in control, to do things my way, or because other solutions just don't quite do what I want?

I decided that I wanted this diary/log, because right now I think I've a few things I'd like to write about. I've had some technical ideas recently that I need to write down, and I'm about to do some normal stuff that I might like to write about. Keep people up to date if they want to be.

So I wrote a short Perl script. Fine, didn't take much time, and it's not a hell of a way from doing what I initially wanted to do. I can post some diary entries, and they will appear on the front page. But oh no, that's not good enough now. I mean, you want a nice month by month archive, and such things; permanent links for entries and so forth. Fine, I could hack that in somehow - I laid everything out as simply as possible in a lovely directory structure, for ease of hacking a script together.

But then come the big aspirations. Comments would be nice. Editing both anywhere and easily. And so on. At a certain point it's just easier to put stuff in a database and generate more stuff from that. But then why don't I have a nice interface? Implement a certain XML-RPC API so that I can use editing tools easily? It never ends.

At least I won't get bored this summer.