Been feeling a little sluggish when it comes to coding lately. Yesterday I put on my headphones and tuned into XTC Radio. I think I got the most coding done since a long time. I got a lot accomplished. It's a nice feeling.

Telecommuting

The building that our offices are in are scheduled to be torn down to make room for a parking lot. A few months ago, I moved my workstation home and built an office for myself. It's been a great couple months of telecommuting. Waking up, grabbing coffee on the way to the desk and waking up mid-code is great. Sometimes you shower early, sometimes you stay in your pijamas until, well, until the next day. This has the strange side effect of causing you to doubt yourself when you go outdoors. Today, on the way to the mailbox I had to look down at myself to make sure I was clothed appropriately.

I've secured a desk at the offices of a local fiber wholesaler and will be moving there in a few weeks. Working at home was really nice, but it will also be nice to be around lots of tech and people to talk geek to. It will also be nice to know that when I'm at home, I'm on my own time. The line between working and having a personal life seems to get blurred when the 'office' is only a few steps away.

7,874,560 pixels

I took a series of screenshots today. I run enlightenment here with dual head display. I have 3 virtual desktops, 2 displays wide. I took a shot of all 3 virtuals, joined them together to make one huge screenshot that is a pretty good view of how my desktop looks in full swing (trance enhanced). The final result is a 2560x3076 jpeg, which can be seen here: Screenshot

Just a little side note... I can't multiply numbers like that in my head. And since I'm typing this in Vim and will transfer it in a bit, I typed this at the Vim command prompt:

:r! perl -e 'print 2560*3076;'

I don't know. It's the little things. :)

IAC

fxn: MyAdvogato is way cool. I installed it. Very nice. I think advogato should adopt that view. It packs a lot of info in a small space.