I'm a person that is always enamored with "milestones" and "landmark dates." It shouldn't be too much of a surprise then that I like to have BitWise releases, if possible, on dates that have had some significance in the past. While we didn't make the date, the original release date for BitWise 1.0 was going to be exactly 2 years since we first conceived the idea of BitWise (February 17th, 2002).
BitWise 1.0.2 is currently planned for a July 2nd release, on my birthday. Honestly, that day being my birthday really is a perk of how the timing works out, but in "arbitrary" scheduling, how's the 2nd different from the 1st? It's not, really. Makes me wonder sometimes about the release dates for other projects made my only a few people or a small company, and what special meaning those days have.
Expect to see a beta by the end of this week (Friday most likely), giving us a good two weeks of beta testing.