On the lesser side of things my hard drive died, and it was bad, my laptop died too, it was old. I recovered some of the data that wasn’t on backup but not all. Have put in place more aggressive backup policies, but nothing is failure proof. But with the bad comes the good, and things have been getting better, several projects my company is working on, have picked up, and there is a bright future ahead of us, so that’s really good.

I have many unfinished posts in my draft folder, I will start churning those out in the days to come. I have a Emacs related surprise plan for some of the readers of this blog, hopefully it will leave to my expectations.

Instead of placing your fingers on the home row (asdf | jkl;) I place it like so (qwef | jiop) this puts my wrists on a angle similar to what an ergonomic keyboard has, as I said works for me, will probably not work for you, we are all different.

To avoid using the mouse, I’m using a keyboard launcher application called Deskbar, it’s quite nice. In OSX you have: Quicksilver, in Linux/Gnome you have: Deskbar, in Windows you have: Launchy.

For browsing the web I’m using FireFox with Conkeror, this is a keyboard driven FireFox interface, it uses Emacs keybindings by default, but you can customize it to use whatever keybindings you prefer.

For coding/writing/blogging/irc/IM/email I use Emacs, with quite a few elisp code I’ve written to handle repetitive tasks for me, as well as elisp code by other authors.

By no means I am advocating you use or try any of the above programs, or do I think they are the best. They are the best for my use.

Other things I’m planning to do in the shot term is buying myself one of this Aeron Chair I don’t think I need to explain why I’m going to buy one of this, but for those that need the explanation, Google is your friend :).

I hope this post can help those with the same problems I am facing, and making computer use pain and injury free.