Ok, I guess it’s time for some Real Content(tm) from my side, so I will try to write about things I have been up to lately. I will strive to keep my gaze high above my navel, and hopefully write something that someone out there might find interesting.
New toy: Powerball
Yup. I got myself a Powerball. The producers of the Powerballs claim that they help alleviate CTS and RSI, and I am pretty sure I suffer from one of those. So, I am hoping playing with my new Powerball will actually help me, because hurting in the wrists and arms from too much computer work is no fun for me.
I will have to google a bit for information on how exactly this wonderful toy will help me, and what the best way to train my wrists for l33t-keyboard skillz is.
Oh.. Current RPM-record is 10,529.
Hacking
about:me, Sheared and Entwine
Lately almost all my hacking non-sleeping hours
have been spent on the backend for this here blog, my private RSS
aggregator and the backend software I build these things on (Sheared and Entwine). Noteable features
I have recently implemented:
- Support for conditional HTTP GET on the RSS feed.
- A feedback form.
- Automagically alerting myself when a 404 is served.
Jukebox
I think I squashed a rather annoying bug in Jukebox; the jukebox that I
start in local.start would shut down when XMMS
disconnected, so one would get a Could not connect
error message
when asking XMMS to start playing again.
The fix was to wrap the client-connection writing in a
try: except: break-block; which is really weird, because
exceptions are supposed to be caught higher up in the
call-stack. Something is rotten in the state of my
exception-handling code :-(.
Note to self: when running the jukebox undaemonized the offending exception is caught and logged, but it mysteriously goes astray when the jukebox is daemonized and the jukebox process shuts down. Maybe you/I should look at what’s up with exception logging when the jukebox is daemonized? Alas, not now. I have books to read, and my wrists hurt.
Post Scriptum
Not entirely sure I succeeded in staying away from navel-picking. Then again, I am still practicing my blogging manners.