Computer fun
Nov. 21st, 2003 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
same_skyAck. Opera 7.2 actually implemented the BLINK tag, dammit. WTF? Why the hell would you really want to see blinking text? And why would someone use a tag that something like 99% of the market can't use anyway and only irritates the crap out of the 1% of the population who can see it? I don't care how important it is! That's what bold is for!
I'm sitting on the couch with a keyboard in my lap and Jewel playing loudly on the stereo. This is nice. Magnus and I have been talking a lot about buying a laptop lately, though we’re not sure how much we might use it. After a while, it became pretty clear that what we really wanted was to use a computer while in the living room. We really don’t go anywhere all that often, after all.
So this afternoon, when I found myself checking my friends page and clicking back to my email every ten seconds for an hour and having not written a single word, I brought the third computer in here and set it up in the corner of the living room. I borrowed a stool from my dad and brought it in to use as a monitor table. Four rubber bands, one tablecloth and a towel we never use later, I have a nice little table that just fits the (flat screen) monitor and doesn’t look too horrible either. I have an extremely long network cable that I could have draped down the hallway probably and brought the internet with me, but that would have defeated the purpose, now wouldn’t it? Now my only problem is this junky old keyboard. It’s not broken/natural, and my wrists are already complaining. How do people USE these things? We had one more Swedish natural keyboard, and I could have set it to use an English layout, but M took it to work.
(Update: the network cable DOES stretch down the hallyway, though we're not going to leave it like that, of course. You just can't have a cable flopping around where people are walking, and it looks like crap. But it was still pretty cool.)
Of course, my chiropractor would kill me if he saw me sitting like this. Oh, well. :) Can’t have it all…
I'm supposed to be writing, of course. I've written 297 words today. It seems that spending all my time getting the computer set up to write doesn't actually help with the word count. Hmm. Anyway, I'm not really behind, so I'm not going to worry about it too much. But I should give it a try. I won't even write about the potentially exciting thing tonight. :)
I'm sitting on the couch with a keyboard in my lap and Jewel playing loudly on the stereo. This is nice. Magnus and I have been talking a lot about buying a laptop lately, though we’re not sure how much we might use it. After a while, it became pretty clear that what we really wanted was to use a computer while in the living room. We really don’t go anywhere all that often, after all.
So this afternoon, when I found myself checking my friends page and clicking back to my email every ten seconds for an hour and having not written a single word, I brought the third computer in here and set it up in the corner of the living room. I borrowed a stool from my dad and brought it in to use as a monitor table. Four rubber bands, one tablecloth and a towel we never use later, I have a nice little table that just fits the (flat screen) monitor and doesn’t look too horrible either. I have an extremely long network cable that I could have draped down the hallway probably and brought the internet with me, but that would have defeated the purpose, now wouldn’t it? Now my only problem is this junky old keyboard. It’s not broken/natural, and my wrists are already complaining. How do people USE these things? We had one more Swedish natural keyboard, and I could have set it to use an English layout, but M took it to work.
(Update: the network cable DOES stretch down the hallyway, though we're not going to leave it like that, of course. You just can't have a cable flopping around where people are walking, and it looks like crap. But it was still pretty cool.)
Of course, my chiropractor would kill me if he saw me sitting like this. Oh, well. :) Can’t have it all…
I'm supposed to be writing, of course. I've written 297 words today. It seems that spending all my time getting the computer set up to write doesn't actually help with the word count. Hmm. Anyway, I'm not really behind, so I'm not going to worry about it too much. But I should give it a try. I won't even write about the potentially exciting thing tonight. :)
