The Mandelbear's Musings

Much of my hacking time today was spent downloading and customizing the latest version of ljupdate, the LJ client for Emacs. The customization consisted mainly of switching it over to my preferred HTML-editing mode, html-helper-mode; this required figuring out how to tell LJ's server that no, I really don't want it to automatically insert a <br> tag everyplace I have a newline. Now, when I look at my HTML in an edit form, it will look like it did when I entered it. Yay.

When I went out bed shopping with the Younger Daughter a week or two ago, I noticed a really nice loft+desk rig that seemed just right for the chaoswolf. This afternoon she looked at it and agreed, so she now has about a week to clean her room to the point where it can be installed. It was somewhat pricey, but will be covered by one of the two mortgage checks I won't have to pay because of the refinance.

Finally, one of my favorite surplus joints, Halted, was having their annual sale today. Whee! Aside from a power strip ($6) and a pair of 24" chassis slides ($5) that might work in the kitchen, the main purchase was a pair of Logitech Trackman FX trackballs, at $30 each. They were marked down from an astronomical $138, and they had a printout of an Amazon.com auction that had them going for $225. They're the ones I like, they don't make my hands hurt, and they're not being made anymore. Same reason I used to buy IBM Model M keyboards whenever I saw them, until the shelf got full enough that I figured I had a sufficient supply.