I put little time into the engineering this week ; most of the time at the office was dedicated to reading papers, cross-referencing information and ideas, building tiny prototypes for testing concept. Some major projects aside ( Trinity/Arachne included ), things are more or less where they should be. The building blocks, the libraries/framework, just about all components the wonderful folks our dev.team needs to build whatever they put their mind to are in place. Which is perhaps the right time for me to spend some time in conducting 'research' - that and the fact that whenever summer is upon us, I find it harder to focus. This whole feeling/mode lasts for one or two weeks, usually.
If all goes well, I will start working on 3 projects that will allow us to build applications and systems that will (1)provide the kind of functionality and information that is hard to be able to offer unless you (2) can process huge (terabytes) data sets and (3) scale without practical limits. More to follow in posts to come.
Wikipedia and Youtube have been sucking most of time I don't spend at the office. I read about everything I can. I too addicted to it and it doesn't get any better. When I am not on Wikipedia, I watch videos on Youtube, videos about classic, old, games running on DOS and Amiga. Speaking of which, I plan to get back to gaming soon, albeit to retro-gaming only ( old adventure games, rpgs, classics). Time to put my Dell screen to good use again.
My friend George Moschovitis (Ruby demi-god) put together another lovely website (joyerz.com) that draws from the pool of pictures submitted by the users of joy.gr in order to present the users with the 'most beautiful greek folks'. You can drill down by tag, genre etc. A beautiful site.
I understand your little "problem". I am spending the best part of my days, just trying to stay updated with the latest internet/technology developments.