I narrowed the problem with iTunes2Manila down last night. It's got to be in the code that handles creating and posting the news item to Manila; the sister script (iTunes2TextEdit) works fine putting the same information into a TextEdit document, so the disappearance of the track information must be happening somewhere else.

I haven't made much progress on my apps recently, largely because:

• I'm employed and doing anything with them on company time would be crazy stupid
• We are still catching up with the house--the garden and general house improvements and unpacking continue to take a lot of time
• My wife works east coast hours and I need to maximize the time that I can have with her, meaning after dinner programming is a no-no
• I finally got the Diablo II Expansion Set working (I had had a damaged Diablo II install disc, which prevented me from installing the expansion set), and I'm addicted again.

I think I'm going to have to schedule my late nights. Programming Monday, Diablo Tuesday, unpacking Wednesday...

It's been a fairly turbulent seven days. I worked hard for about two months on a strategy project only to have it taken away, and am pretty much starting from scratch trying to learn about a new market, product suite, and set of job skills. I have regained a little balance over the past few days, which is critical because I have to be executing pretty hard now.

The strategy project is probably in better hands now. While I had been looking forward to going onto the next phase, we had reached a point where all the decisions needed to be made at a higher organizational level. I'm looking forward to the challenge of redefining what I can deliver and doing some execution. It's been a while.