I troubleshoot my computer for 4 hours today trying to figure out what virus, adware or driver problem was screwing up my mouse when all the while my wacom pen had rolled onto my writing tablet!
Day: January 26, 2006
High blood pressure? Let your spouse help!
“…people who had abstained from sex had the highest blood pressure response to stress” so sex does reduce stress!
“The effects are not attributable simply to the short-term relief afforded by orgasm but rather, endure for at least a week,â€
Which in no way implies that it should only be a once a week activity.
Shoot the programmer!
Programmers that make mouse dependent applications (ie. no keyboard shortcuts) should be shot.
Why me?!
The day was starting off so well (technically..personally it could improve greatly) and then wham! Just to kill productivity, my mouse flips out and only works in a small portion of my screen. Try to go outside of that and the pointer jumps back to the top of the screen. I reboot and at the WindowsXP user login screen it does the same thing. Guess my day is going to be wasted working on my dev box. At least it works in safe mode so I know its not a hardware issue.
Why does everything have to be such an uphill battle?
A win for the good guys! Google makes legal tender.
Good news for Google, Archive.org and the free world! Google cache is legal!
Google results and movie tickets!
Excellent list of Portable USB software
For people that work between multiple computers (say a home office and a corporate office) or want the security of leaving less of a footprint on a computer, you can install a variety of software packages on a USB drive. Great list!
The Fog
The game of life is hard to play
I’m going to lose it anyway
The losing card I’ll someday lay
So this is all I have to say
The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I’m beat
And to another give a seat
For that’s the only painless feat
What do you use for time tracking?
I have used Quickbooks Pro’s timer before but mostly I use Allnetic’s Timetracker. I would prefer something decent for my PDA (palmos) but I have strayed from carrying it around and the last time I looked the available time trackers were inadequate. I need something I can wear on my wrist that autosyncs with the nearest computer via bluetooth. That way I can bounce from computer to computer and enter time tracking data from the keyboard (but the device still needs to accept entry from the wrist).
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I want to be doing something else.
Master: Try truly enjoying what you are doing and there will be nothing else.
