I am only programming within my comfort zone. Nothing is challenging me, really, and although I've had some, what I think, are good ideas, none of them really motivate me to attempt anything new, or outside my current idiom. In other words, I'm in a dry spell, or maybe just the 'Code Duldrums'.

Wow, I hear that! ++cacharbe !

Just as it gradually dawned on me that I too was coming to an almost identical conclusion about myself, I saw your post. If I tried, I don't think I could have described what I'm going through better than you just did. It's like you were reading my mind.

Perhaps it IS, as you suggest, seasonal. Or, perhaps further it's somehow September 11-related....

Wherever it's coming from, it's (sadly) almost comforting to see, from the other responses you've gotten, that we're not the only ones.

dmm

Just call me the Anti-Gates

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