Greetings.

Of course, when I say "next week" I really mean next time I bother to post news.

First things first - Project Omega. For several weeks now, I've done nothing of value. One may quickly attribute this to the many-times-aforementioned crazy-busy days, but that wouldn't be entirely accurate. I've noticed that overall motivation to work dropped sharply shortly after I started the whole "twenty-week Phases and four-week goals" development plan. So much for that scheme.

Under the twelve-week Phase system, I had set goals for each _day_, something which seems rather ridiculous for any sort of serious development effort. One thing it did effectively, though, was keeping me on task - I had outlined and publicized goals for each day of the week, and the onus was very squarely on me to get those tasks done. On time. In the now-defunct four-week goal system, I laid out goals that were to be done every four weeks, with no detail in between about how to do it...on top of that, the news updates were few and far between - a matter of poorly-timed coincidence.

The problem isn't without a solution - a hybrid one, at that. I will be moving back to weekly goal updates, sans daily details, and keep the twenty-week Phases. That is, although the goals will be updated weekly, they won't be detailed down to the day I plan to complete them. Rather, I will lay out a goal to be reached at the end of the week as well as some explanatory notes on what the goal is, and some basic steps toward reaching them. A safe middle point between the two prior systems, and one I'm glad to realize in relatively short order.

For those outside the know, certain Project Omega details - including development and planning stuff - are not available to the general public. In short, there were two extremes: a ton of documentation - very slow and time-consuming but effective; and virtually no documentation - quick and dirty, but ineffective. Sad to say, the shift between the two was ultimately a bad move, but it does reveal a path we should not take again in the future...increasing our chances to select the correct path.

In light of this, I'm sure there's quite a bit of adding and updating to be done in the PO Box. Check it out over the next few days and see what is to be seen, read what is to be read. Thanks to the linguistic cataclysm that is the English language - and my less-than-stellar command thereof - the last fragment of the previous statement is nightmarish, at best.

On more generic terms, thanks to numerous business courses this semester, I'm starting to think of Project Omega and Zero Hour Productions more in terms of business (surprise!). In the past, I've had vague notions of certain business aspects, but it's nice to have some formal validation - or a wake-up call to the contrary - forthcoming.

...and there was some other topic I wanted to mention here, but I forgot what it was...

One thing that still baffles me, though, is that I periodically get mail (not the E variety) addressed to (the owner of) Zero Hour Productions, despite the fact that I've never registered this information anywhere except here on the Interwebs. Some free entertainment, at the very least, I guess.

Mr. Bond, signing off.