Entering My Mid-Twenties
It's my birthday, which means I am now 26. I am getting old!
Latest diary entries
Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
My mind has been infected
I'd hoped that dropping a few references to it in my last post would help exorcise the song that's going round and round in my head, but it just won't stop. I woke up yesterday morning humming the "Still Alive" song from the Portal credits, literally humming it before my mind had figured out where I was. That's not normal. I haven't played the game for over a year, but I still spent all morning humming it; I tried listening to it on a loop for a few hours to try to make my mind ...
We do what we must because we can
Yes, I'm still alive, just very busy with lots of exciting worky things, including my CMS. Yes, that one. And although this will be something like the 5th version that will make it into production, it will be the first version I'll release under an open source license. At last.
The irony is that although my feature list grows and my available time shrinks, with the server-side and client-side frameworks and tools that have been released over the past few years, it has actually become a lot easier to accomplish what I want. But with so much already ...
Changing mouse button behaviour in Ubuntu
I've just replaced my expensive old mouse after a pathetically short life, and went for the Logitech MX620. I've now discovered that the middle mouse button malfunctions in pretty much all of them, including mine, but that's another story.
Experiences with older Linux distros proved rarely easy to configure hardware, so I plugged in my new mouse with trepidation - but it all worked perfectly, first time. Even the search button - I'm impressed with intrepid.
However, I find I very rarely use back/forward in my browser due to tab usage, so prefer to map the back ...
My Chocolates are Awesome
My chocolates arrived, and they taste good.
Words cannot express my joy, so have some photos instead.
