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BlogEd ate this blog

*sigh* I had this blog all nicely laid out in BlogEd and then I did something in not quite the order it was expecting and it over-wrote it completely with an old one :(

The dangers of free-ware. It often isnt nearly as well thought out or bullet proof as a commercial product. Not that this stuff doiesnt happen with comemrcial software, but its less common since there is generally a more complete design phase as well as a good Q&A phase.

I've also found that under Java 6 its a bit flaky, slow to respond to io requests, and interferes with real-time apps like my music player.

I guess I'm back to manual HTML for awhile. BlogEd is a really nice idea but definitely not ready for actual work-use.

Here is today's again, as best as I remember it:

RSI, never say "it can't happen to me." AFter 30 years of coding on every concievable keyboard and at every concievable position I had convinced myself I was immune. Bad call. This weekend I got up from the keyboard to discover that i could hardly move my elbow without terrible pain.

Turns out, I've got a case of "golfer's elbow", a not uncommon VDT RSI. Luckily its fairly mild and is already responding well to treatment. The bad news is that once you have an RSI, you basically have to baby it and expect its just waiting to come back.

It likely cropped up now at least in pert becauseeof my cramped home workstation environment. Im doing what I can to correct that now, though the realities of of our living situation makes that tough. We have us, 4 birds and 2 cats in an 800foot mobile home and are likely to be here at least 18 months more as we are trying to build a new house.

The moral of the story is pay attention to your workstation or it'll bite you in the arse.

Movie of the Week Speaking of bites on the arse, Shelley and I saw Madagascar last night. (You'll understand the segue when you see it.) We had a lot of fun! The plot is pretty predictable, but the gags are not and are delivered with wonderful comic timing.

One thing it might help to know, that many people don't, is that when chimpanzees wish to express displeasure, they often do it by throwing fecal material at whomever they are displeased with. There is a gag on this in the movie that is delivered with such perfect comic timing that I was laughing so hard I literally could not breathe.

My prediction: The two chimps are at least going to get their own short as I strongly suspect that they came out as two of the favorite characters in audiance tests.

Advice: If your looking for a movie, skip Star Wars and see Madgascar instead!

Project Update: I had a very good meeting with the Sun Grid folks. I learned some interesting things. I need to ask the Grid guys what I can say publically and assumning its okay Ill post what I learned.

Posted at 04:01PM May 30, 2005 by gameguy in General  |  Comments[1]