The software demons have possessed me the past few days.

It started in the usual fashion. I got an idea in my head for something and I thought I could fire up Delphi and whip out something in a couple of hours. But here I am, five days later, and I am still working on the foundation. Nothing is ever easy or quick in software development.

And by the way, who ever drummed up the term "software programming?" I hear (and read) this term a lot. I even saw an ad on television about a technical school where the guy supposedly learned all about software programming.

I wish I knew what the hell it was.

Since I have been programming computers over the past 26 years, I have always been under the impression that I was programming computers and that software was the result of that programming. I thought I was creating software, not programming it. I didn't know software could be programmed. I mean, I have created software simulations of embedded hardware systems, and these simulators executed code that was targeted for the processors that we simulated, so I guess in a sense there was some software programming going on there. But, all in all, it still seemed like computer programming to me.

Computer programming. That's the term I use. Maybe I'm just old school. Maybe I've missed the boat somewhere and nobody is actually dealing with computers anymore - only software. Am I off base on this? Am I that far out of the loop?

Help me understand!

Anyway, I got sucked back into this computer programming mode ("software development" if you really feel the need to refer to software when discussing it) and I think my muscles are beginning to atrophe. The whole world goes away when I am in that mode. It's just me and the box. There was a time when I lived for that. But not anymore. I have too many other things I want to do.

It's time to get out of the box! This application will join the ranks of my many unfinished COMPUTER PROGRAMMING projects.

Death to computers!