My Geek Notes

I’m finding that even though I sit at a desk all day programming, I still get exhausted (mentally?) after troubleshooting code all day and finding the best looking/working and fastest solution to whatever it is I’m working on. I’ve got a big project due in a week and a half and after working up to 9pm this evening on it I came home wanting to go straight to bed. Did I, no. I ended up playing some Zelda on the Wii which was actually pretty good for cooling down my brain. After I post this, I’m off to bed to rest up for another run at the programming grind tomorrow.

I talked some about Firefox (Greasemonkey) and jEdit in a recent posts and just wanted to talk a little more about them … or part of them. I’m finding that a lot of open source(ish) apps allow for plugins and that’s really where the sugar of the setup is. In most of the apps I work with I try to tweak them out with plugins that increase productivity and functionality. Firefox and jEdit are just two of those allowing for a great set of plugins. I’m hoping at some point to write some sort of a plugin for something.

Lots of stuff in the news today. Here’s a link to a video of some sun glasses that you can turn on and off. In addition to what ikeman posted, here are some stories about a new Spaceport in New Mexico and two links on the problem we are having with space junk. Well, I’m off to bed but I’ll leave you with two more things - the new Harry Potter book cover was announced, and no, Sinbad is not dead.