iroiro...
Latest on the travel front. Dates are actual flight dates, and tend to
reflect a late evening arrival at each destination. Philadelphia still
needs to be scheduled...
- February 18..21: Portland, OR (scheduled)
- March 3..6: Ithaca, NY (scheduled)
- March 16..18: Philadelphia, PA (speculative)
- March 19..April 8: Kyoto, JAPAN (scheduled; US dates)
- April 28..May 2: Champaign, IL (scheduled)
- May 28..30: Reserved (unscheduled)
- June 30..July 4: Anaheim, CA (unscheduled)
The Portland trip means a trip to Powells, the most wonderful bookstore
I've been to. Time for another call for books so I'll have
enough reading material for the various flights. If you have
recommendations for books or authors to read, let me know. I have a fantasy
bias at the moment, but other genres are good too -- I also need to pick up
a copy of Les Miserables. Anywho...
I'm sitting here in the office, cursing my Windows workstation and trying
to finish off several tasks. The pointer on this machine has serious
problems when I try to select text to copy/paste in Exceed apps (X11-based
programs). When I tap and drag the stylus to highlight some text, the
highlight occasionally continues to follow the pointer after I've lifted the
stylus from the tablet, as if the left button were still pressed. Once it
goes into this mode, it doesn't matter if I move the pointer with the stylus
or with mousekeys; the highlighted region continues to follow the pointer.
Both devices insist that the left button has been released; I haven't
noticed it in Windows apps on the same machine; I've tried various driver
and Exceed settings with no success; and I'm at a loss to explain where on
earth this annoying behaviour is coming from...
If I were only running a few Exceed apps, this might be tolerable, but
almost everything running on my workspace is Exceed (I avoid Windows apps
like the plague, their "copy" and "paste" menu commands are strange and
foreign to me) and copy/paste is something I frequently do, so inevitably I
run into this "feature" once or twice per hour. It's just... aargh. I hate
technology. Need to return to theory-land...