Just to demonstrate the level of my growing apathy toward web development …
In the past two days, I've toyed with the idea of setting up a shopping cart system online so I can offer MP3s of my demos. The purpose is more to track listeners than to earn an income. In fact, I would rather the system offer them for free.
I experimented with Zen Cart, which is available from Dreamhost as a one-click install, and it was too robust for what I had in mind. Other solutions were paid services using outside servers, and I have more than enough space on my web site to accomodate my files. I'm not concerned with bandwidth at this point because, well, no one is listening to my stuff.
The more I looked into it, the more it became apparent that my needs are way too specific for what is available. And if I went with a third-party tool, I would need to hack it extensively to do what I wanted.
I've built my own applications, and I've hacked other people's applications. The time sunk into them is equal.
I wanted something to run out-of-the-box. That's not possible.
Five years ago, I would have dove straight in and started coding. Today, I'm filing the idea in the mental cabinet to wait for a time when I'm not feeling so apathetic.
This apathy even extends to my blogs. I have a lot of reviews I've been intending to write but no drive to write them.
I want a sabbatical.