My friend Michelle visited, and we had a nice time.
I went back to Berkeley and then to Maciej's birthday party.
My arms hurt a lot.
I wrote some more scripts for this diary, so that I can have a table of contents showing all of the subject headings I've ever used in writing this diary.
Zack and I went to Office Depot, where I got a nice chair. It may improve my posture. It's fun to go to Office Depot.
I also started using my IBM keyboard instead of the weird one I was using before. The IBM keyboard is unbelievably comfortable -- it's the same model I achieved my all-time record typing speeds on, and the model I've used more than any other -- but that doesn't necessarily mean that it will be better for my hands.
My hands hurt a lot during the day, maybe a delayed effect from earlier typing. I took a long nap, which seemed to help a bit.
Zack's Debian installation is messed up -- he upgraded from potato to woody and a lot of things broke. I, on the other hand, did a recent woody installation and upgraded it to sid, and it was basically fine. It seems that the potato to woody upgrade is particularly challenging; we're still working on it at the moment.
Brita is going to visit again tomorrow: I'm going to meet her over in Berkeley.
Of course, I'm still reading The Name of the Rose, mostly on public transit.
When I mentioned software patents being a bad thing the other day, I meant to link to the Petition too. Please -- especially if you are in Europe or can set policy for a company or organization working in the computer industry -- support the Petition.
Some time I'm going to write more here about harmonization of national laws. This is a tiny subset of the bigger question: Is friction good or bad?
Contact: Seth David Schoen
